All News

Life & Chemistry

Yeast in a Shell: Unlocking Nature’s Breakfast Innovation

Our breakfast egg is a peculiarity of nature: a single cell protected by a thin mineral layer. Apart from a number of tiny radiolaria and diatoms, individual…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Method for Micro-Profiles on Grinding Wheels

Using the invention, virtually no force is exerted on the abrasive layer during a dressing process. Combined with the small dimensions of the wire electrode…

Studies and Analyses

Bridging Ideals and Practice: Journalists Meet Audience Demands

The ambition to please the audience requires that the journalist knows what the audience wants.'Journalists generally feel it is important to respond to what…

Science Education

Preschoolers Challenge Gender Roles in Swedish Education

The Swedish preschool curriculum requires promotion of gender equality, but researchers at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Education, who…

Physics & Astronomy

Electron Self-Injection: Surfing Plasma Waves for Innovation

Thirty years ago, theorists John Dawson and Toshiki Tajima proposed an idea for making them thousands of times smaller: surf the particles on plasma waves…

Health & Medicine

New Immune Therapy Offers Hope for Lymphoma Treatment

“Therapy with EBV-specific CTLs (cytotoxic lymphocytes) was effective for these patients who were severely immune-compromised, as the cells successfully…

Environmental Conservation

Robot Fish: Innovating Water Quality Monitoring at MSU

Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to…

Environmental Conservation

Data point to some improvements in China's environment

The rapid growth of China's forests over the past 20 years makes them the fastest growing forest resources in the world, according to an assessment published…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Zebrafish Organ Regeneration Mechanisms Explained

Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified an essential cellular pathway in zebrafish that paves the way for limb…

Environmental Conservation

Wolves and Moose: Uncovering Biodiversity Connections

A large and unexpected one, say wildlife biologists from Michigan Technological University. Joseph Bump, Rolf Peterson and John Vucetich report in the November…

Medical Engineering

Promising Gamma Knife Treatment for Glioblastomas

Researchers from University Hospitals Case Medical Center report promising results from a cutting-edge research study that treated the aggressive brain tumors…

Earth Sciences

Understanding The Terrible Teens of T. Rex

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.In a new scientific paper,…

Studies and Analyses

Full-Fat Milk Linked to Lower Weights in Children

This is one conclusion of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.The study showed that children who drink…

Life & Chemistry

Cooperating Genes Drive Aggressive Leukaemia in New Study

The two genes are often present in mutated form in acute leukaemias, but the mutations rarely occur together. Scientists have previously believed that the two…

Studies and Analyses

UIC Researchers Discover Neutrophils Circling for Better Immunity

Their results are described online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Neutrophils are white blood cells that are activated by chemical cues…

Health & Medicine

Race Impacts Restless Legs Syndrome Risk in Women

New research shows that Caucasian women may suffer from restless legs syndrome (RLS), a sleep disorder characterized by the strong urge to move the legs, up to…

Feedback