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January 24, 2017

Credit: UNIST The accurate interpretation of particle sizes and shapes in nanoporus materials is essential to understanding and optimizing the ...

Hearst Foundation funds TGen research into cancer-related ‘wasting syndrome’

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jan. 23, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has received a $175,000 grant from the ...

Engineers eat away at Ms. Pac-Man score with artificial player

Loading video... Credit: Cornell University Using a novel approach for computing real-time game strategy, engineers have developed an artificial Ms. ...

New crab species shares name with 2 ‘Harry Potter’ characters and a hero researcher

Credit: Jose C. E. Mendoza While not much is known about the animals living around coral reefs, ex-Marine turned researcher ...

Coral reefs grow faster and healthier when parrotfish are abundant

Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI Caribbean coral reefs have become biologically and economically degraded habitats. The relative weight of the big ...

Successful immunotherapy requires system-wide immune response

New research led by researchers from UC San Francisco and Stanford University has found that successful cancer immunotherapy appears to ...

New ‘immunoprofiler’ initiative will advance drug discovery

UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to ...

Melting solid below the freezing point

Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen ...

E-cigarettes are expanding tobacco product use among youth

E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a ...

New low-cost technique converts bulk alloys to oxide nanowires

Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech A simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials could dramatically lower ...

Study: Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use

Are humans taking more resources from the Earth than the planet can safely produce? The answer lies partly in whether ...

Creating atomic scale nanoribbons

Credit: Adrian Radocea, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make ...

Digital assay of circulating tumor cells may improve diagnosis, monitoring of liver cancer

Use of an advanced form of the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs) ...

USDA invests $13.6 million in citrus greening research

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

Study discusses model for understanding nutrition and brain development

Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. -Pediatric nutrition research has sh own the important effects of early-life ...

USDA announces $18.9 million available to support agricultural education at 1890s land-grant institutions

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

NIFA announces $1.85 million for potato breeding research

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

Motors matter: From DVD players to robotic surgeons

The same mechanical principles underlie whether the DVD player skips and whether the most advanced surgical robot will rotate its ...

Accelerating fuel-efficient car production with disruptive 3-D print process

Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at The University of Nottingham are developing lightweight automotive components using new additive manufacturing processes ...

Precision medicine advances pediatric brain tumor diagnosis and treatment