Air pollution casts shadow over solar energy production
Credit: Michael Bergin, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust. According to...
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UC Riverside molecular biochemist named to German National Academy of Sciences
Credit: IIGB, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Katayoon Dehesh, the director of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) and the Ernst and Helen Leibacher...
Review: Insomnia medication may wake up some patients from vegetative state
Credit: Michigan Medicine In a new systematic review in JAMA Neurology, Michigan Medicine researchers found reason to further explore the surprising effects of zolpidem that...
Mount Sinai researcher identifies best practices for cochlear implant hearing preservation
Cochlear implants that have electrodes designed without wire perform better than those with wires for long-term hearing preservation, a Mount Sinai researcher has reported in...
A little place for my stuff
Credit: Stephen Vadia In his classic comedy routine, "A Place for your Stuff," George Carlin argues that the whole point of life is to find...
Vinegar: A cheap and simple way to help plants fight drought
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have discovered a new, yet simple, way to increase drought tolerance in a...
Discovery of a new mechanism for bacterial division
Credit: J. McKinney/G. Fantnter/EPFL Most rod-shaped bacteria divide by splitting into two around the middle after their DNA has replicated safely and segregated to opposite...
Monitoring changes in wetland extent can help predict the rate of climate change
Monitoring changes to the amount of wetlands in regions where permafrost is thawing should be at the forefront of efforts to predict future rates of...
Cedars-Sinai team develops risk assessment score to predict, help prevent sudden cardiac arrest
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles -- June 26, 2017 -- A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a new risk assessment tool that...
‘Own-point-of-view’ video method leverages power of perception to improve emergency care
DES PLAINES, IL--The 'own-point-of-view' perspective video technique, coupled with a subjective re situ interview, provides a better understanding of how physicians make clinical decisions i..
Study reveals how sex ‘blindspot’ could misdirect medical research
The sex of animals frequently has an effect in biomedical research and therefore should be considered in the study of science, report scientists from the...
Characterizing the mouse genome reveals new gene functions and their role in human disease
The first results from a functional genetic catalogue of the laboratory mouse has been shared with the biomedical research community, revealing new insights into a...
Previously unknown extinction of marine megafauna discovered
The disappearance of a large part of the terrestrial megafauna such as saber-toothed cat and the mammoth during the ice age is well known. Now,...
Novel viral vectors deliver useful cargo to neurons throughout the brain and body
Credit: Chan et al., Gradinaru Lab Viruses have evolved to be highly effective vehicles for delivering genes into cells. Seeking to take advantage of these...
UT-ORNL to shepherd US-China Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Network
Credit: Photo of switchgrass harvest in East Tennessee by P. McDaniels, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A new grant sponsored by the U.S. National Science...