EurekAlert! Science News

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Accessed on 20 March 2019, 1625 UTC.

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NEWS BY SUBJECT

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Visualizing better cancer treatment

NYU TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Assessment tool predicts chronic fatigue syndrome 6 months after mono

ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO

More Medicine & Health

BIOLOGY

Chromatin changes rapidly in response to low oxygen, study finds

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

A mating war in diving beetles has stopped the evolution of species

FACULTY OF SCIENCE – UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

More Biology

TECH & ENGINEERING

Fish-inspired material changes color using nanocolumns

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Seeing through food and drug fakes and frauds

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE

More Tech & Engineering

SOCIAL & BEHAVIOR

Some US Muslims identify less as Americans due to negative media coverage

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Psychology may help explain why male and female serial killers differ

PENN STATE

More Social & Behavior

CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS

It’s spring already? Physics explains why time flies as we age

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Supercomputer simulations shed light on how liquid drops combine

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

More Chemistry & Physics

ARCHAEOLOGY

Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

New Cretaceous fossil sheds light on avian reproduction

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HEADQUARTERS

More Archaeology

SPACE & PLANETARY

Mitigating the loss of satellite data by using CubeSat remote sensing technology

INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

NASA mission reveals asteroid has big surprises

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

More Space & Planetary

AGRICULTURE

Butterfly numbers down by two thirds

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM)

Breakthrough in fight against plant diseases

LA TROBE UNIVERSITY

More Agriculture

EARTH SCIENCE

Researchers analyze biodiversity patterns in Antarctic Dry Valleys

VIRGINIA TECH

Coral reefs near equator less affected by ocean warming

FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

More Earth Science

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Study shows IPCC is underselling climate change

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE

EPFL researchers make a key discovery on how alpine streams work

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

More Atmospheric Science

MATHEMATICS

Mathematicians reveal secret to human sperm’s swimming prowess

UNIVERSITY OF YORK

Drug-delivering device streamlines tuberculosis treatment in pigs

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

More Mathematics

EDUCATION

Meditation enhances social-emotional learning in middle school students

CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION

Trials testing new educational methods in schools ‘often fail to produce useful evidence’

UNIVERSITY OF YORK

More Education

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Fishing for fun, not food: Study takes stock of recreational fishing impacts

YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Emotionally attuned managers are better at judging workgroup effectiveness: study

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

More Business & Economics

POLICY & ETHICS

Who should Fido fear? Depends on relationship

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Otago bioethicist adds voice to global plea for moratorium on heritable genome editing

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO

More Policy & Ethics

SCIENCE BUSINESS NEWS

Endocrine Society praises European Parliament report’s call to regulate endocrine-disrupting chemicals

THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY

Materials design in 3D: From the molecule to the macrostructure

KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE (KIT)

More Science Business News

GRANTS

Project aims to tame noise from supersonic military jets with ‘swirl’ technology

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Treatment deficiencies, research disparity in pelvic organ prolapse

VIRGINIA TECH

More Grants

AWARDS

Francoise Mornex is first female recipient of Heine H. Hansen Award [ELCC press release]

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

UMass Amherst food scientist receives Young Scientist Research Award

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST

More Awards

BOOKS

Race to the moon: Told through postal history

SPRINGER

Conflict in space doesn’t always look like ‘Star Wars’

SPRINGER

More Books

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