HTC announced at Mobile World Congress on Monday its new Power To Give project, which aims to donate processor power to scientific research. Planning on bringing together the power of millions of smartphones, the Android for altruism ...
Tags: smartphones, app, processor power
Interview conducted by April Cashin-Garbutt, BA Hons (Cantab) What is nanoparticle analysis and what biomedical applications does it have? Nanoparticle analysis is a very important field. Basically, we live in a world that is ...
Tags: Microfluidics, Microscopy, Nanoparticle, Protein
Acetaminophen, found in over-the-counter products such as Excedrin and Tylenol, provides many people with relief from headaches and sore muscles. When used appropriately, it is considered mostly harmless. Over recent decades, the drug, ...
Roswell Park/University at Buffalo study finds significant risk for women who never smoked Secondhand smoking is linked with pregnancy loss, including miscarriage, stillbirth and tubal ectopic pregnancy, according to new research from ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, Secondhand Smoke, Smoke, Secondhand smoking
How do you build a universal quantum computer? Turns out, this question was addressed by theoretical physicists about 15 years ago. The answer was laid out in a research paper and has become known as the DiVincenzo criteria. The ...
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
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(Phys.org) —From steel beams to plastic Lego bricks, building blocks come in many materials and all sizes. Today, science has opened the way to manufacturing at the nanoscale with biological materials. Potential applications range ...
Tags: Crystalline Structure, DNA, NSLS, virus
(Phys.org) —You use crystals everyday: sugar in your coffee, the active ingredient in hand warmers, maybe a diamond stud in your ear. A crystal is built of atoms arranged in a repeat pattern in all three dimensions. X-rays are good ...
Tags: Atomic Displacement, Crystal, NSLS-II, CSC
Boys are at greater risk for delayed language development than girls, according to a new study using data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study. The researchers also found that reading and writing difficulties in the family gave ...
Babies who develop leukemia during the first year of life appear to inherit an unfortunate combination of genetic variations that can make the infants highly susceptible to the disease, according to a new study at Washington University ...
Tags: Leukemia, Genetic Predisposition, DNA, gene
To develop correctly, baby hearts need rhythm...even before they have blood to pump. "We have discovered that mechanical forces are important when making baby hearts," said Mary Kathryn Sewell-Loftin, a Vanderbilt graduate student working ...
Tags: Baby Heart, Rhythm, Roadmap, SysCODE
(Phys.org) —On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, ...
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Our horses can make some pretty funny expressions sometimes, and the way they appear to react to certain tastes can give us a good laugh. Now Canadian scientists have put the evidence behind the humor: recent research results showed that ...
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Improving access to pediatric check-ups may increase parental awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, a new nationwide study reveals. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that infects about 14 million people aged 15 to 59 years ...
Tags: HPV Vaccine, cancer, well-child checkup, US population
Work uncovers secret of how genome-editing tool works as a 'guided missile' to correct errors in the genetic code Researchers from the Broad Institute and MIT have teamed up with colleagues from the University of Tokyo to form the first ...