Day December 19, 2018

IMAGE: This is professor Jonathan Silva. view more  Credit: Washington University in St. Louis In 2015, then President Barack Obama launched a precision medicine initiative, saying that its promise was “delivering the right treatments, at the right time, every time to…

Many prisons today use sanctions to discipline prisoners, including segregating them from other inmates, transferring them away from other inmates, and removing them from rehabilitation programs. A new longitudinal study that sought to determine the effect of these sanctions on…

IMAGE: This is a diagram of the process in which a stem cell line was generated for production of cardiac cells. view more  Credit: Penn State Human Stem Cell Engineering Lab A faster, more cost-efficient, and more accurate method of examining…

IMAGE: On Dec. 19 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0935 UTC) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite analyzed cloud top temperatures of Tropical Cyclone Cilida in infrared light. AIRS found cloud… view more  Credit: NRL/NASA An infrared look by NASA’s Aqua…

The humpback whale and a handful of similar whale species have a feeding mechanism utterly unique in the animal kingdom. They open their mouths to scoop in ocean water, then strain it out through plates called baleen. The baleen looks…

Suppose you were building a cartel — a group of business interests who coordinate to fix high prices that consumers must pay. How would you design it? Received economic wisdom says transparency among cartel members is crucial: If colluding suppliers…

IMAGE: A UC San Diego-led team has developed hardware and algorithms that could cut energy use and time when training a neural network. view more  Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A team led by the University of…

IMAGE: A research team led by Noa Ofen, Ph.D. at Wayne State University is working to address a critical gap in our understanding of how maturation of the prefrontal cortex drives… view more  Credit: Artwork by Julian Wong. DETROIT – Declarative…

IMAGE: In Panoplosaurus (left), the nasal passages were longer than the skull itself, and in Euoplocephalus (right) they were almost twice as long as the skull, as well as coiled up… view more  Credit: Jason Bourke, Ph.D., NYITCOM at A-State JONESBORO,…

IMAGE: This is Lucicutia hulsemannae, a copepod that stays at the Lower Oxycline of the Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ). The organism is remarkably tolerant of extremely low oxygen levels, but very… view more  Credit: Photo by Dawn Outram KINGSTON, R.I. –…