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Taming Tumor Forces: Enhancing Cancer Treatment Effectiveness

It's a high-pressure environment within solid tumors. Abnormal blood and lymphatic vessels cause fluids to accumulate, and the uncontrolled proliferation of…

Life & Chemistry

The original Twitter? Tiny electronic tags monitor birds’ social networks

A new study led by a biologist at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews used the UW tags to see whether crows might learn to use tools from one another. The…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding How Moving Cells Support Immune Response

At any given moment, millions of cells are on the move in the human body, typically on their way to aid in immune response, make repairs, or provide some other…

Health & Medicine

Promising Therapies for Acute Megakaryocytic Leukemia

Investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified two promising therapies to treat patients with acute megakaryocytic…

Studies and Analyses

Local Landscape Changes: Economic Pressures and Disease Risk

After Taiwan joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, active cultivation of rice paddies fell from 80 percent to 55 percent in just three years. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Uses for Old Tools Could Boost Biodiesel Output

For more than 30 years, near infrared (NIR) reflectance spectroscopy has been used as a rapid and nondestructive method for measuring protein, moisture, and…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Monitor Nadine’s Tropical Transition

Forecasters noted that Nadine could have started transitioning into an extra-tropical storm, because there was little significant rainfall near Nadine's center…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Solar Fleet Peers Into Coronal Cavities

The prominences are sometimes also the inner structure of a larger formation, appearing from the side almost as the filament inside a large light bulb. The…

Health & Medicine

'Half-match' bone marrow transplants wipe out sickle cell disease in selected patients

After a median follow-up of two years, the transplants successfully eliminated sickle cell disease in 11 of 17 patients. Three were fully matched to their…

Physics & Astronomy

Harnessing Quantum Light Waves for Ultra-Precise Measurement

An international team of physicists has pushed the boundaries on ultra-precise measurement by harnessing quantum light waves in a new way.It is one thing to be…

Environmental Conservation

Nunavut's mysterious ancient life could return by 2100

Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Evolution of Lizards and Snakes

The article, entitled “Resolving the phylogeny of lizards and snakes (Squamata) with extensive sampling of genes and species,” describes research led by John…

Materials Sciences

Ultrathin Flat Lens: Making Smartphones As Thin As Credit Cards?

Federico Capasso and colleagues explain that the lenses used to focus light in eyeglasses, microscopes and other products use the same basic technology dating…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Selective grazing and aversion to olive and grape leaves achieved in goats and sheep

By using the natural mechanism of conditioned taste aversion, researchers redirected the food preferences of ruminants, making them more willing to eliminate…

Transportation and Logistics

New Airport System Enhances Take-Offs and Landings Efficiency

The system, developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), provides information pilots can use to route aircraft away from patches of…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Captures Post-Tropical Cyclone Lane’s Low Cloud Cover

NOAA's GOES-15 satellite sits in a fixed orbit over the western U.S. and captures continuous visible and infrared imagery of the western U.S. and the Eastern…

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