Study: A scientific advance in studying early-stage lung cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the U.S. It is often missed in its earlier stages, and while recent imaging advances have...
Study: Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?
Some of the oldest remains of early human ancestors have been unearthed in Olduvai Gorge, a rift valley setting in northern Tanzania where anthropologists...
Study: Dams exacerbate the consequences of climate change on river fish
A potential response of river fish to environmental changes is to colonize new habitats. But what happens when dams and weirs restrict their movement?...
Study: Princeton lab discovers small “Cain-and-Abel” molecule
A new bacterial molecule with the unsavory tendency to track down and kill others of its own kind has been discovered in the human...
Researchers uncover a novel approach to treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS, and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome have shown that pharmacological...
Study: CCNY engineer Xi Chen and partners create new shape-changing crystals
Imagine harnessing evaporation as a source of energy or developing next generation actuators and artificial muscles for a broad array of applications. These are...
Study: Heated rivalries for pollinators among arctic plants
Insect pollination is as important to Arctic plants as it is to plants further south. When flowers abound, the plants have to compete for...
Study: TRESK regulates brain to track time using sunlight as its cue
Research from the University of Kent has found that TRESK, a calcium regulated two-pore potassium channel, regulates the brain's central circadian clock to differentiate...
Research examines how civil wars affect wildlife populations
A new study comprehensively reveals how civil wars impact wildlife in countries affected by conflict.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in the...
Study: Transplanted brown-fat-like cells hold promise for obesity and diabetes
Obesity is the main cause of type 2 diabetes and related chronic illnesses that together will kill more people around the globe this year...