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The Renewable Thermal Alliance (RTA), a new project spearheaded by Yale University, is coordinating activities to harmonize and share best practices in the regional development...

Engineers investigate a simple, no-bake recipe to make bricks from Martian soil

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's red soil into bricks without...

UBC instructor uses math to investigate possibility of time travel

Credit: UBC Okanagan After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine. Ben Tippett,...

Cleveland Clinic discovers opportunities to overcome cancer treatment resistance

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017, CLEVELAND, OH: A collaborative Cleveland Clinic, University of Oxford and Moffitt Cancer Center team of researchers has proven the theory that,...

Latest advances in artificial intelligence for drug discovery to be presented at the NVIDIA GTC

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, April 27, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a big data analytics company specializing in applying the latest advances in deep...

Discovery in northern lakes may be key to understanding early life on Earth

A team of researchers has discovered that many Canadian lakes can provide new insights into ancient oceans, and their findings could advance research about greenhouse...

Ocean warming to cancel increased CO2-driven productivity

University of Adelaide researchers have constructed a marine food web to show how climate change could affect our future fish supplies and marine biodiversity. Published...

Amazentis announces successful phase 1A/1B study results for urolithin A in healthy elderly subjects

Lausanne, Switzerland, April 27, 2017 -- Amazentis SA, an innovative life sciences company pioneering scientific breakthroughs in nutrition to manage health conditions linked to aging,...

Control of molecular motion by metal-plated 3-D printed plastic pieces

Credit: A.Osterwalder/EPFL Many measurement techniques, such as spectroscopy, benefit from the ability to split a single beam of light into two in order to measure...

System can 3-D print an entire building

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just plastics but also metal, glass,...

Researchers identify genes that help trout find their way home

DURHAM, N.C. -- In the spring when water temperatures start to rise, rainbow trout that have spent several years at sea traveling hundreds of miles...

Want to better comply with dietary guidelines, and save money? Cook dinner at home

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The best culinary paths to better health are not always paved with cash, new research shows, and cooking at home can provide...

Wasps and wine: Paper wasps contribute to sour rot disease, a scourge of wine industry

Credit: Sean D. Boyden, undergraduate student in the Department of Biology at Tufts University. MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (April 26, 2017) - Come harvest season, wine makers have...

UF receives up to $8.4 million from DoD to study brain training using electric stimulation

The U.S. Defense Department is looking for ways to speed up cognitive skills training -- the types of skills useful for specialists such as linguists,...

Researcher says customized content on political websites hurts democracy