A former White House adviser who helped devise the Affordable Care Act (ACA), will provide…
Month: November 2015
Predicting earthquakes: Titan takes on the big one
A research team is using the Titan supercomputer to develop physics-based earthquake simulations to better…
Doctors, relatives often see patients’ wishes differently
If a patient is no longer able to communicate personally how he or she would…
Researchers detail how to control shape, structure of DNA, RNA
Materials science researchers have used computational modelling to shed light on precisely how charged gold…
Protein-RNA structure hints at how viruses commandeer human proteins
Researchers have produced the first image of an important human protein as it binds with…
Sexually transmitted infection affecting up to one percent of the population aged 16-44 in the UK
A new study strengthens growing evidence that Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a sexually transmitted infection…
Idea of slow climate change in Earth’s past misleading
Climate change is progressing rapidly. It is not the first time in our planet’s history…
Simple errors limit scientific scrutiny
Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are…
Discovery of a new confinement state for plasma
Seeking to achieve fusion energy, research on high-temperature and high-density plasma confinement by magnetic fields…
Study cites gap between theory and practice in natural resource management
Natural resource agencies have embraced an approach known as adaptive management to adjust and refine…