Aspirin Slows Growth of Colon, Pancreatic Tumor Cells
Aspirin may slow the spread of some types of colon and pancreatic cancer cells.Image Credit: Flickr/Mike Steele
Anti-platelet medication decreases activity of cancer-causing proteins in...
A look at the US cold snap from NASA infrared imagery
On Dec. 7, cold Arctic air (dark blue) descended into the Plains states and reached Colorado, Kansas and Missouri. That cold air shifted east...
Innovations offer peek into the future of electronic devices
Purdue University researchers recently showcased a range of concepts and technologies that foreshadow the future of the semiconductor industry. Here, a device is made...
Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds
ALMA observations of a young protostar about 450 light years away. Using these images, astronomers from the Niels Bohr Institute have for the first...
The quantum computers of the future will work equally well with encrypted and unencrypted...
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When future users of quantum computers need to analyze their data or run quantum algorithms, they will often have to send encrypted information...
Researchers dial in to ‘thermostat’ in Earth’s upper atmosphere
Coronal mass ejections from the sun heat Earth's upper atmosphere, then cool it dramatically, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. Credit:...
People can control a robotic arm with only their minds
Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive brain cap were able to move the robotic arm just by imagining...
New material a breakthrough for magnetic data storage
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New perovskite material developed by EU researchers is set to define the next generation of hard drives.
The amount of data generated...
Scientists discover new cancer connection
A biologist at The University of Texas at Dallas and his colleagues have discovered that two enzymes previously linked independently with keeping cancer cells...
First detection of boron on the surface of Mars
ChemCam target Catabola is a raised resistant calcium sulfate vein with the highest abundance of boron observed so far. The red outline shows the...
The shape of a bird’s wing determines where it lives
The left bird, Dark batis (Batis crypta) has smaller round wings. The bird on the right, Dusky Woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus), has long pointy wings...













