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UrduA Bright Day for Dark Matter December 11, 2019 – An abundance of mysterious gamma radiation exists in the center of the Milky Way, called the Galactic Center GeV Excess. Previous research determined that this enigmatic radiation likely came from…
State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question
According to a new study led by a team from The University of New Mexico, centuries-old laws about the behavior of gas mixtures do not apply in the presence of shock waves. This finding could have potential impact on everything…
Education professor receives Fulbright Scholar Award
UMass Lowell faculty member to reach, research ethnomathematics in US, South Africa
Training the brain: resilience program helps student-athletes adjust to college life
Research on UMass Amherst course shows resilience can be taught
When flowers reached Australia
First blooms made it to Australia 126 millions years ago
Newly described fossil whale represents intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming
ANN ARBOR–A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues. The fossilized remains of Aegicetus gehennae were recovered in the…
University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease
$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HD
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a mystery that has long stumped scientists and defies the laws of thermodynamics: Why the corona, the sun’s outer layer, is 1000 times hotter than the layer beneath it. “Unraveling…
Illinois team develops first of a kind in-vitro 3D neural tissue model
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully used stem cells to engineer living biohybrid nerve tissue to develop 3D models of neural networks with the hopes of gaining a better understanding of how the brain and these…
Information technology can save police lives, according to a new study
High use of IT can cut violence against officers in half
Scales offer insight into chronic stress of fish, University of Guelph research finds
For years, aquatic researchers have sought an easy way to determine when wild fish are under stress. Now University of Guelph researchers have shown for the first time that a key stress hormone, cortisol, accumulates in fish scales slowly and…
Stanford scientists pry apart party drug’s therapeutic, addictive qualities
Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have succeeded in distinguishing the molecular pathway responsible for an illicit drug’s abuse potential from the one behind its propensity to make people feel sociable. The discovery, described in a study to be published…
C. diff carriers are common source of infections in health facilities, study shows
Screening for carrier status should be considered as a possible prevention strategy
Training the brain: resilience program helps student-athletes adjust to college life
Research on UMass Amherst course shows resilience can be taught
When flowers reached Australia
First blooms made it to Australia 126 millions years ago
Newly described fossil whale represents intermediate stage between foot-powered and tail-powered swimming
ANN ARBOR–A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues. The fossilized remains of Aegicetus gehennae were recovered in the…
University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease
$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HD
NSF grants Illinois-led team $4.4 million to develop distributed space telescope
More than 91 million miles from Earth, the sun poses a mystery that has long stumped scientists and defies the laws of thermodynamics: Why the corona, the sun’s outer layer, is 1000 times hotter than the layer beneath it. “Unraveling…
Illinois team develops first of a kind in-vitro 3D neural tissue model
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have successfully used stem cells to engineer living biohybrid nerve tissue to develop 3D models of neural networks with the hopes of gaining a better understanding of how the brain and these…
Information technology can save police lives, according to a new study
High use of IT can cut violence against officers in half
Scales offer insight into chronic stress of fish, University of Guelph research finds
For years, aquatic researchers have sought an easy way to determine when wild fish are under stress. Now University of Guelph researchers have shown for the first time that a key stress hormone, cortisol, accumulates in fish scales slowly and…
Tucatinib ‘game changing’ against HER2+ breast cancer, especially with brain metastases
Phase III clinical trial results reported today in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented concurrently at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2019 show the combination of the investigational drug tucatinib with standard of care treatment including…
High doses of vitamin D for critically ill patients yield minimal benefit
AURORA, Colo. (Dec. 11, 2019) – A major study conducted by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Network into whether high doses of vitamin D can improve health outcomes for…
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
The finding could have profound implications for the design of microelectronic components where heat dissipation is key
New research seeks to improve safety equipment for pregnant women
UBC Okanagan engineer says not all body types are taken into account
Tropical flower offers potential new route for treating pancreatic cancer
An international team of scientists led by the University of Bath have made drug-like molecules inspired by a chemical found in a tropical flower, that they hope could in the future help to treat deadly pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is…
Isotope analysis points to prisoners of war
Researcher at the University of Bonn investigates bones from the 1,400-year-old Maya mass grave of Uxul
Education professor receives Fulbright Scholar Award
UMass Lowell faculty member to reach, research ethnomathematics in US, South Africa
State of shock: 200-year-old law about gas mixtures called into question
According to a new study led by a team from The University of New Mexico, centuries-old laws about the behavior of gas mixtures do not apply in the presence of shock waves. This finding could have potential impact on everything…
OU research group confirm planet-mass objects in extragalactic systems
NORMAN, OKLA. – A University of Oklahoma research group is reporting the detection of extragalactic planet-mass objects in a second and third galaxy beyond the Milky Way after the first detection in 2018. With the existing observational resources, it is…
Flipping the script on novel cancer therapy leads to insights into lupus
In the last decade, scientists discovered that blocking a key regulator of the immune system helped unleash the body’s natural defenses against several forms of cancer, opening up a new era of cancer immunotherapy. Now Yale scientists have essentially flipped…
Skipping one night of sleep may leave insomniacs twice as impaired, study says
SPOKANE, Wash. – A new study conducted by researchers at Washington State University shows that individuals with chronic sleep-onset insomnia who pulled an all-nighter performed up to twice as bad on a reaction time task as healthy normal sleepers. Their…
Mountain goats’ air conditioning is failing, study says
Glacier National Park’s iconic mountain goats seek out vanishing snow patches where they cool and reduce their respiration
Australian and US team discover new human autoinflammatory disease
Scientists from Australia and the US have discovered and identified the genetic cause of a previously unknown human autoinflammatory disease. The researchers determined that the autoinflammatory disease, which they termed CRIA (cleavage-resistant RIPK1-induced autoinflammatory) syndrome, is caused by a mutation…
Pathways toward post-petrochemistry
Electroreduction of carbon monoxide for the highly selective production of ethylene
Creating virtual worksites for students to gain ‘hands-on’ skills
Construction is literally a hands-on business where profit-loss margins are squeaky-tight. The training of new workers requires time and labor, and materials like wood, cement, and rebar are too expensive for the “play” essential for learning new skills. Unfortunately, the…
Study supports long-term benefits of non-drug therapies for pain
Findings based on review of more than 140,000 Veteran health records
Tree cavities for wild honeybees
Wild populations of the western honeybee Apis mellifera were widely assumed as extinct in Europe. “However, recent fieldwork studies reveal that wild honeybees still exist in forests: Their colonies mainly nest in tree cavities,” says Dr. Fabrice Requier from the…
Tsoi lives in Malaysian forests
Sergey Ermilov, a researcher from Tyumen State University, discovered and described a new species of oribatid mites that lives on the forest floors in Malaysia
Next-generation beams to transform photon science with €2 million ERC funding
A Professor of Physics at the University of Strathclyde has been awarded more than €2 million by the European Research Council (ERC), for a project aiming to develop next-generation plasma-based electron beam sources for photon science and high-energy physics. The…
Blueprint for nanomaterial development offers hope to newborns, elderly and busy doctors
Scientist hopes ‘blueprint’ leads to a new golden age of healthcare
All age groups worldwide ‘at high risk’ of drop in children’s physical activity
Emphasis on particular groups hinders efforts to address the problem of declining physical activity in children, according to a study led at the University of Strathclyde. A review of more than 50 published studies, covering a total of 22,000 children,…
Safer viruses for vaccine research and diagnosis
A new technology to produce safer ‘hybrid’ viruses at high volumes for use in vaccines and diagnostics for mosquito-borne diseases has been developed at The University of Queensland. Researchers from UQ and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have exploited the…
National Academy of Inventors elects Pitt’s William J. Federspiel as Fellow
Pitt Bioengineer recognized for life-saving artificial lung technology
Focus on food security and sustainability
Researchers at the University of Bonn, EASAC and IAP call for more research and a global pact
Deciphering the equations of life
A new theory describes what all animals have in common and allows predictions for organisms that might not be well understood by science.
High school student publishes scientific paper with assistance from Texas Tech professor
Part of being classified as one of 86 public institutions in the Very High Research Activity (R1) category by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education means attracting some of the best and brightest researchers around the world to…
Startup developing solar-powered crop-drying devices forms new partnership
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – JUA Technologies International, a Purdue University-affiliated startup developing solar-powered crop-drying devices, is partnering with BrazAgro Ltd., a supplier of Brazilian farm machinery, to distribute its solar-drying tray. Dehytray is a solar-drying solution for small and mid-size…
Pioneering nanotechnology cloud — nanoHUB — looks to future
A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National Science Foundation grant renewal, completing its 20-year mission while looking to the future to create new technologies. The cloud, known as nanoHUB, was developed through…
Princeton researchers listen in on the chemical conversation of the human microbiome
Princeton researchers have developed new computational and experimental tools to identify microbial small molecules encoded in clinical samples, allowing scientists to explore microbial-host interactions and to mine the human microbiome for drug discovery