There are 49 million US workers without paid sick leave, causing an even greater divide…
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Collective memory discovered in bacteria
Individual bacterial cells have short memories. But groups of bacteria can develop a collective memory…
Warming up optoelectronic research for new generation of optoelectronic devices
A team of physicists is creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research and perhaps a new…
Eye cells may use math to detect motion
In a study of mice, scientists showed how one type of neuron in the eye…
Multi-scale simulations solve a plasma turbulence mystery
Cutting-edge simulations have yielded exciting answers to long-standing questions about plasma heat loss that have…
I’d like to thank…myself
When Leonardo DiCaprio accepted his Oscar for Best Actor in ‘The Revenant’ this year, he…
Towards the goal of precision therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a highly lethal disease, therefore effective and tolerable treatment is urgently needed….
Dementia plaques attack language center of brain
The recent ability to peer into the brain of living individuals with a rare type…
Plasma processing technique takes SNS accelerator to new energy highs
A novel technique known as in-situ plasma processing is helping scientists get more neutrons and…
New therapeutic target in myeloma discovered
Targeting both CDK4 and ARK5, proteins responsible for maintaining energy balance within the cell, was…