Climate changes may lead to more poisonous mercury in plankton
(Umea University) Global warming is expected to increase runoff and input of organic matter to aquatic ecosystems in large regions of the Northern hemisphere including...
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Clue to how cancer cells spread
New Haven, Conn.-- In a second human case, a Yale-led research team has found that a melanoma cell and a white blood cell can fuse...
Toxic mercury in aquatic life could spike with greater land runoff
Credit: Sofi Jonsson A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton -- tiny animals at the base of...
TSRI scientists find brain hormone that triggers fat burning
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt.) LA JOLLA, CA - January 27, 2017 - Biologists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have...
GSG III Foundation pledges more than $1 million for Lung Research Program at UofL
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A new research program at the University of Louisville will focus on developing better methods for studying lung inflammation and allow for...
Finding credibility clues on Twitter
By scanning 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a language model that identifies words and...
Aerospace engineering doctoral student earns NASA Pathways internship
Credit: UT Arlington Cody Ground, a doctoral student in The University of Texas at Arlington's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, has earned a prestigious Pathways...
New techniques allow greater control of smartwatches
Credit: Gabriel Reyes Smartwatches aren't the easiest things to control, with their small screens and owner't bulky fingers. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have invented...
Researchers develop label-free technique to image microtubules
Credit: Kandel et. al., ACS Nano 2016 Imaging very small materials takes not only great skill on the part of the microscopist, but also great...
The ancient Indus civilization’s adaptation to climate change
With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt with similar environmental circumstances. New...
New system for therapeutic gene delivery increases transgene expression up to 100-fold
Credit: ©2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 27, 2017 -- Advanced engineering of a mini-intronic plasmid (MIP) system designed to carry...
Absorbing electromagnetic energy while avoiding the heat
Credit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial made without any metal. The...
Physics: Toward a practical nuclear pendulum
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element. This...
Star birth with a chance of Winds?
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety of deep-sky objects -- including...
PPPL scientist uncovers physics behind plasma-etching process
Credit: Elle Starkman Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators have uncovered some of the physics...