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A new approach to detecting cancer earlier from blood tests
Cancer scientists led by principal investigator Dr. Daniel De Carvalho at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have combined "liquid biopsy," epigenetic alterations and machine learning...
Terahertz laser pulses amplify optical phonons in solids
A study led by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser...
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to...
New maps hint at how electric fish got their big brains
Helmet-heads of the freshwater fish world, African mormyrid fishes are known for having a brain-to-body size ratio that is similar to humans.
But there's actually...
The first rains in centuries in the Atacama Desert devastate its microbial life
The Atacama Desert, the driest and oldest desert on Earth, located in northern Chile, hides a hyper-arid core in which no rain has been...
NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua
In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua—the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system....
Huge crater discovered in Greenland from impact that rocked Northern Hemisphere
A survey of ice in Greenland has uncovered evidence suggesting a kilometer-wide iron asteroid slammed into that island, perhaps as recently as 12,000 years...
Scientists combine graphene foam, epoxy into tough, conductive composite
Rice University scientists have built a better epoxy for electronic applications.
Epoxy combined with "ultrastiff" graphene foam invented in the Rice lab of chemist James...
Fish recognize their prey by electric colors
The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense apparently shows an astonishing similarity to vision, as a...
How weather and climate shape Earth’s life sustaining surface
We know less about the ground beneath our feet than we do about the surface of Mars, but new research by University of Colorado...
Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard’s star
Astronomers have discovered a planet in orbit around one of the closest stars to the Sun, Barnard's star.
The study was co-led by researchers from...
