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CHEYENNE, Wyoming -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching operations this month of one of the world's ...

UD’s Anderson Janotti receives NSF Career Award to model defects in complex materials

Credit: Evan Krape/University of Delaware The University of Delaware's Anderson Janotti has won a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career ...

Major 5M project to improve heart disease treatment with smart pacemaker technology

Credit: University of Bath Creating a new generation of advanced pacemakers which adapt to the demands of a patient's body ...

How stressful will a trip to Mars be on the human body?

Credit: NASA Preliminary research results for the NASA Twins Study debuted at NASA's Human Research Program's annual Investigators' Workshop in ...

How X-rays in matter create genetoxic low-energy electrons

Credit: Kiyoshi Ueda Researchers led by Kiyoshi Ueda of Tohoku University have investigated what x-rays in matter really do and ...

NUS engineers develop low-cost, flexible terahertz radiation source for fast, non-invasive screening

Credit: National University of Singapore Portable handheld sensors for detecting explosives, wearable sensors that can detect chemical agents, compact devices ...

Preventing blood clots with a new metric for heart function

Loading video... Credit: Rajat Mittal, Jung Hee Seo and Thura Harfi The heart is a wonder of design - a ...

New genome-mapping technique opens new avenues for precision medicine

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff OHSU scientists have uncovered a method for quickly and efficiently mapping the genome of single cells within ...

Keeping antennas at peak performance

Advanced statistical techniques developed by KAUST researchers have enabled an efficient method for detecting the partial antenna failures that can ...

Researchers develop wearable, low-cost sensor to measure skin hydration

Credit: Shanshan Yao Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a wearable, wireless sensor that can monitor a person's ...

Experts predict melanoma death rates will fall by 2050

January 29, 2017

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: By 2050 the death rates from malignant melanoma will have decreased from their current levels but the ...

The immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, is active against mucosal melanoma tumors

January 29, 2017

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Clinical trials of a new immunotherapy, pembrolizumab, have shown that it prolongs life significantly for patients with ...

Evaluating the benefits of health insurance on cancer care

Credit: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Jan, 27, 2017, Lebanon, N.H. -- Millions of Americans acquire their health insurance under the Affordable ...

Mount Sinai study: How primary tumor cells are preset for dormancy and evade chemo after spread

In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary ...

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 ...

New system for therapeutic gene delivery increases transgene expression up to 100-fold

A new approach to 3-D holographic displays greatly improves the image quality

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, January 27, 2016--The potential applications of three-dimensional (3D) digital holograms are enormous. In addition to arts ...

Sciences for art

Conservation and preservation of historical monuments as well as of single artworks of our cultural heritage are receiving increasing attention. ...

Twice-daily radiation therapy cuts deaths from head and neck cancer

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Treating head and neck cancer patients with a twice-daily radiation therapy combined with chemotherapy could save more ...

Androgen deprivation therapy: Not associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease