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Credit: Science Advances Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed ultra-flexible, nanoelectronic thread (NET) brain probes ...

Engineers shrink microscope to dime-sized device

Credit: University of Texas at Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope ...

Regional chemotherapy technique for extremity sarcoma salvages limbs from amputation

CHICAGO (February 15, 2017): Patients with a type of advanced malignant cancer of the arms or legs have typically faced ...

Scalp cooling can help some breast cancer patients retain hair

Scalp cooling can lessen some chemotherapy-induced hair loss - one of the most devastating hallmarks of cancer - in certain ...

Intergalactic unions more devastating than we thought

Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/CXC/U. Michigan/J. Miller et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Scientists from MIPT, the University of Oxford, and ...

A new spin on electronics

Credit: Christoph Hohmann / Nanosystems Initiative Munich Modern computer technology is based on the transport of electric charge in semiconductors. ...

Ancient jars found in Judea reveal earth’s magnetic field is fluctuating, not diminishing

Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth's magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. ...

Turning up the heat for perfect (nano)diamonds

Credit: Stephan Hruszkewycz WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 -- Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and ...

Researchers develop ‘living diode’ using cardiac muscle cells

Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore Scientists are one step closer to mimicking the way biological systems interact and process ...

New infusion therapy may help smooth out movement for patients with Parkinson’s

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Feb. 14, 2017) - Constant infusion of a drug now used intermittently to "rescue" patients ...

NASA to launch Raven to develop autonomous rendezvous capability

Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stuart Snodgrass, producer Launching soon, aboard the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, will ...

Two PNNL researchers elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering

Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Two researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been elected to ...

Radiation therapy continues to be gold standard to palliate painful bone metastases

ARLINGTON, Va., February 14, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) recently published an updated clinical guideline that ...

Tiny magnetic implant offers new drug delivery method

Credit: UBC University of British Columbia researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant--the first of its kind in Canada--that could ...

Taking a high-priced cancer drug with a low-fat meal can cut cost by 75 percent

Taking one-fourth the standard dose of a widely used drug for prostate cancer with a low-fat breakfast can be as ...

Researchers engineer ‘thubber,’ a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch

Credit: Lisa Kulick PITTSBURGH -- Carmel Majidi and Jonathan Malen of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a thermally conductive rubber ...

Potential new treatment combats COPD and other lung diseases

New research published online in The FASEB Journal reveals a potential drug to combat the life-threatening effects of chronic obstructive ...

NASA gives the Webb Telescope a shakedown

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists and engineers had many challenges in designing the components of ...

Researchers discover a new link to fight billion-dollar threat to soybean production

Credit: Xiaoli Guo, Division of Plant Sciences and Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri; College of Plant Science and ...

Luminescence switchable carbon nanodots follow intracellular trafficking and drug delivery