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January 5, 2017

Credit: Ryan Sullenberger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a microscope that can chemically identify individual micron-sized particles. ...

Artificial intelligence seen as a key technology to enable better balancing of UK’s energy market

January 5, 2017

Upside Energy and Heriot-Watt University have been awarded a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) grant by Innovate UK to maximise the ...

Manufacturing platform makes intricate biocompatible micromachines

Loading video... Credit: SauYin Chin/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--January 4, 2017--A team of researchers led by Biomedical Engineering Professor Sam ...

Human neocortical neurons have unique membrane properties that enhance signal processing

The human brain's advanced cognitive capabilities are often attributed to our recently evolved neocortex. Comparison of human and rodent brains ...

German Arctic Office to act as consultant to politics and industry

Bremerhaven/Germany, 4 January 2017. The rapid climate changes in the Arctic are no longer just the domain of scientists. The ...

Of mice and men: Unique electrical properties of human nerve cells make a difference

The human brain's advanced cognitive capabilities are often attributed to our recently evolved neocortex. Comparison of human and rodent brains ...

Sandia forms Spray Combustion Consortium to improve engine design

Credit: Photo by Dino Vournas LIVERMORE, Calif. - Sandia National Laboratories has formed an industry-funded Spray Combustion Consortium to better ...

‘We could make that!’ — Chance meeting leads to creation of antibiotic spider silk

Credit: The University of Nottingham A chance meeting between a spider expert and a chemist has led to the development ...

Hidden secrets of Orion’s clouds

Credit: ESO/VISION survey This spectacular new image is one of the largest near-infrared high-resolution mosaics of the Orion A molecular ...

Vaccine shows promising results for early-stage breast cancer patients

TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 3, 2016) - Deregulation and inhibition of the immune system contributes to cancer development. Many therapeutic strategies ...

Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal

Credit: Society of Behavioral Medicine Translational Behavioral Medicine, a major scientific behavioral medicine journal, now publishes research studies that have ...

Common antioxidant may guard against liver disease, says CU Anschutz researcher

AURORA, Colo. (Jan. 3, 2017) - A common antioxidant found in human breast milk and foods like kiwi fruit can ...

Special issue of Future Oncology highlights the field of Psycho-oncology

Credit: Future Science Group The Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Future Oncology, has released a special issue that examines ...

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

Credit: Jon Husson and Shanan Peters/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- For the development of animals, nothing -- with the exception of ...

First experimental proof of a 70 year old physics theory

Credit: IBS PARK Je-Geun, Associate Director at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), ...

Research on dinosaur embryos reveals that eggs took 3 to 6 months to hatch

January 2, 2017

Credit: © AMNH/M. Ellison New research on the teeth of fossilized dinosaur embryos indicates that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs ...

New study finds evolution of brain and tooth size were not linked in humans

January 2, 2017

Credit: George Washington University WASHINGTON (Jan. 2, 2017)--A new study from the George Washington University's Center for the Advanced Study ...

Gene therapy for liver disease advancing with the help of adeno-associated viral vectors

December 30, 2016

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 30, 2016--Liver-directed gene therapy delivered using adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors ...

Ancient DNA can both diminish and defend modern minds

December 30, 2016

Phoenix, AZ -- You've likely heard about being in the right place at the wrong time, but what about having ...

Endometrial cancer mutations are detectable in uterine lavage fluid before cancer diagnosis