All News

Earth Sciences

Methane Sources Uncovered: Insights from 30,000 Years of Ice Cores

Ice cores are essential for climate research, because they represent the only archive which allows direct measurements of atmospheric composition and…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Cell Division from MIT Research

Proteins that control cell division play a far more nuanced role than researchers previously thought in the process that gives rise to reproductive cells,…

Life & Chemistry

Smithsonian scientists find evidence that could rewrite Hawaii's botanical history

Their findings are being published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in London on April 16.Metrosideros, commonly called “ohi’a” in the…

Life & Chemistry

New Sugar Approach Shows Promise Against Tumors

Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey Rathmell’s laboratory in the Duke Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, has found…

Physics & Astronomy

Gravity Wave Evidence Fizzles, Say Case Western Researchers

A team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University has found that gravitational radiation—widely expected to provide “smoking gun” proof for a theory…

Health & Medicine

New Cancer Therapies Show Promise in Latest Clinical Trials

Clinical researchers at Scottsdale Healthcare and TGen today announced the results of two clinical trials that show promise for patients battling cancer. The…

Health & Medicine

Mental Stress Lowers Heart Blood Flow in Gene Variation Patients

“Searching for the presence of this gene may be one way to better identify patients who are at an increased risk for the phenomenon,” said David S. Sheps,…

Studies and Analyses

Creatinine Rise in Elderly Linked to Renal Disease Risk

Even small increases in serum creatinine levels during hospitalization raise the risk of end stage renal disease and mortality of elderly patients over the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Self-Seeding Management: Boosting Winter Cover Crop Benefits

Winter cover crops provide important ecological functions that include nutrient cycling and soil cover. Although cover crop benefits to agroecosystems are well…

Studies and Analyses

UAB Study: Triphendiol Drug May Combat Biliary Cancers

Laboratory studies by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have shown that the drug triphendiol (NV-196) causes cell death in pancreatic and…

Studies and Analyses

New Research on Menstrual Disorders in Elite Athletes

However, a new doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet overturns old ideas that elite sport can damage the health. Many elite…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Migraine Genetics: New Insights on Pain Factors

Migraine is the most common cause of episodic headache, and by far the most common neurological cause of a doctor’s visit. It affects some 15% of the…

Physics & Astronomy

18 Billion Suns: New Insights Into Black Hole Interactions

A central black hole, with a mass equal to 18 billion times that of the Sun, is orbited by a smaller one, and the interaction of the system with its…

Life & Chemistry

Cordless 3-D Images: Instant Capture for Police Officers

There will soon be an easier way of doing it: The police officers will only need to pick up a 3-D sensor, press a button as on a camera, and a few seconds…

Automotive Engineering

Discovering Virtual Products: A New Era in User Experience

For instance, if a child puts their hand out the window to wave to a friend, the window must stop moving immediately or there could be serious consequences:…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Measuring Free-Form Geometries: Innovations in 3-D Technology

“Free-form geometries are not rotationally symmetrical, but may be surfaces of any shape. This makes them expensive to manufacture, and the conventional…

Feedback