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Credit: ViEWS, Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale ...

Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties

Credit: Jean-Christophe Blancon/Los Alamos National Laboratory HOUSTON - (June 8, 2018) - Scientists led by Rice University and Los Alamos ...

New method helps make orthotopic brain-tumor imaging clearer and faster

Credit: ZHENG Hairong Nowadays, tumors inside the complex central nervous system remain one of the most challenging cancers to diagnose. ...

ORNL launches Summit Supercomputer

Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2018--The U.S. Department of Energy's ...

Wayne State researchers examine the role of glutamate in aging cognitive diseases

DETROIT - As people around the world live longer, the prevalence of age-associated cognitive disorders is growing. Alzheimer's disease (AD), ...

A ‘super’ receptor that helps kill HIV infected cells

Credit: Melissa Cowan While treatments for HIV mean that the disease is no longer largely fatal, the world still lacks ...

High food insecurity found in a sample of adults on probation in Rhode Island

BOSTON (June 8, 2018, 2:00 p.m. ET)--A new cross-sectional study led by public health researchers at Tufts University School of ...

The cartography of the nucleus

Credit: Guttman laboratory / Cell Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six ...

Face transplantation — An established option to improve quality of life in patients with severe facial trauma

June 8, 2018 - Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the ...

Half of hepatitis C patients with private insurance denied life-saving drugs

PHILADELPHIA - The number of insurance denials for life-saving hepatitis C drugs among patients with both private and public insurers ...

Flu virus is protected by mucus when airborne, regardless of humidity

PITTSBURGH, June 7, 2018 - Mucus and other airway secretions that are expelled when a person with the flu coughs ...

Deadly behavior-modifying weapon identified in insect-world chemical arms race

Credit: University of East Anglia Scientists probing one of the mysteries of the insect world have identified a powerful chemical ...

Are you really into me?

Credit: University of Rochester Communications/Michael Osadciw According to a new study, those who feel greater certainty that a prospective romantic ...

Sustained use of opioids before spine surgery increases risk of continued use after surgery

June 7, 2018 - Patients who take prescription opioids for a longer period before spinal surgery are more likely to ...

Study: Larger sample sizes needed to increase reproducibility in neuroscience studies

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Small sample sizes in studies using functional MRI to investigate brain connectivity and function are common in ...

Colorado study suggests new combination treatment against relapsed head and neck cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The five-year survival rate for locally-advanced head and neck cancer is only 46 percent, ...

Excess zinc in muscles contributes to wasting syndrome in cancer

NEW YORK, NY (June 6, 2018)--It's estimated that nearly one-third of all cancer deaths are caused not by the cancer ...

Flexible solar cells: Will they someday power your devices?

Will you ever be able to charge your mobile device, car and even clothing with flexible solar cells? Researchers at ...

End-to-end blood testing device shows capacity to draw sample and provide diagnostic results

Researchers from the Biomedical Engineering Department at Rutgers University have developed an end-to-end blood testing device that integrates robotic phlebotomy ...

Emergency physicians debunk ‘dry drowning’ myths, highlight drowning risk in older swimmers