New results on the geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region
2014-01-27
An article entitled "Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region"was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, ...
300,000-year-old hearth found
2014-01-27
Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use ...
Shadowy world of Britain's discount hitmen revealed in new study
2014-01-27
Contract killing is one of the least studied, but most intriguing areas of organized crime; and new research into British hitmen has found that in some cases victims were murdered for as little as £200. The ...
Punctured cell membranes lead to high blood pressure
2014-01-27
Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified how a mutated protein can lead to holes in a protein sitting in a cell's membrane. Such holes cause high blood pressure, and the discovery can now lead ...
Magnetic switch gets closer to application
2014-01-27
This news release is available in German.
Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism ...
New quantum dots herald a new era of electronics operating on a single-atom level
2014-01-27
New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty ...
New biomedical diagnostics using personalized 3-D imaging
2014-01-27
This news release is available in Spanish. This innovation enables 3D images of living organisms to be obtained with greater speed and precision. In broad terms, helical optical projection tomography consists in ...
IOF position paper reveals enormous variation in worldwide usage of FRAX
2014-01-27
Nyon, Switzerland ...
App may signal cellphone dependency
2014-01-27
A new, free app will allow smartphone users to measure their cellphone use. Computer scientists and psychologists from the University of ...
Unique specimen identifiers link 10 new species of ant directly to AntWeb
2014-01-27
A team of scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the University of California at Davis describe ten new species of Temnothorax ants, doubling the number of species of this ...
How did we get 4 limbs? Because we have a belly
2014-01-27
This news release is available in German. All of us backboned animals – at least the ones who also have jaws – have four fins or limbs, one pair in front ...
Visual system can retain considerable plasticity after extended blindness
2014-01-27
BOSTON (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to ...
Study shows researchers' status helps some scientific papers gain popularity
2014-01-27
Do scientific papers written by well-known scholars ...
U of Tennessee research finds link between alcohol use and domestic violence
2014-01-27
Alcohol use is more likely ...
Fragmented sleep accelerates cancer growth
2014-01-27
Poor-quality sleep marked by frequent awakenings can speed cancer growth, increase tumor aggressiveness and dampen the immune system's ability to control ...
Migrants' children as well integrated as Swedes' children
2014-01-27
"You can't compare apples and oranges. For the most part, children whose parents immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s have a working-class background, while the children of the majority population ...
Brain biomarker shows promise in heart
2014-01-27
A biomarker widely used to diagnose brain injury has shown early promise ...
A silk coat for diamonds makes sleek new imaging and drug delivery tool
2014-01-27
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique ...
'Element of surprise' explains why motorcycles are a greater traffic hazard than cars
2014-01-27
"I didn't see it, because I wasn't expecting it there," might be the more accurate ...
Genomics for judges: Educating Illinois judges on how genetic info impacts court decisions
2014-01-27
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Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Genomics for judges: Educating Illinois judges on how genetic info impacts court decisions
New seminar prepares judges to deal with legal questions involving DNA sequencing, analysis, and related technologies in the courts today ...
Early tumor response from stereotactic radiosurgery predicts outcome
2014-01-27
The response of a patient with metastatic brain tumors to treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery in the first six-to-twelve weeks can indicate whether follow-up treatments ...
Swiss cheese crystal, or high-tech sponge?
2014-01-27
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The sponges of the future will do more than clean house.
Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny ...
Researchers tune in to protein pairs
2014-01-27
Rice University scientists have created a way to interpret interactions among pairs of task-oriented proteins that relay signals. The goal is to learn how the proteins ...
Common crop pesticides kill honeybee larvae in the hive
2014-01-27
Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers. The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone ...
Do brain connections help shape religious beliefs?
2014-01-27
New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Building on previous evidence showing that religious belief involves cognitive activity that can be mapped to specific brain regions, a new study has ...
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