A team of researchers has demonstrated a novel cancer cell detection method based on real…
Month: December 2015
Citizen-science climate project adds logs from historic Arctic whaling ships
Old Weather is a citizen-science project that is mining historic ship logs to get a…
Mystery of arsenic release into groundwater solved
Bacteria living in shallow sediment layers of permanently flooded wetlands in Asia drive arsenic release…
Guided ultrasound plus nanoparticle chemotherapy cures tumors in mice
Thermal ablation with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is a noninvasive technique for treating…
Teens know dangers of driving and cellphone use, yet do it anyway, research shows
Researchers sat down with 30 teens to better understand their perceptions of driving and distractions…
Nanoscale ‘drawbridges’ open path to color displays
A new method for building ‘drawbridges’ between metal nanoparticles could open new paths for electronics…
Study undercuts idea that ‘Medieval Warm Period’ was global
A new study questions the popular notion that 10th-century Norse people were able to colonize…
Autoimmune epilepsy outcomes depend heavily on antibody type
Immune dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a cause of drug-resistant epilepsy but how or why…
Scientists develop ‘Shazam for earthquakes’
A new algorithm designed to find matching seismic signals in large earthquake databases could find…
No two faces are the same
Researchers have been studying a likely congenital dysfunction that is characterized by the inability to…