Community health workers lead to better health, lower costs for Medicaid patients

As politicians struggle to solve the nation's healthcare problems, a new study finds a way to…

Engineering team images tiny quasicrystals as they form

What makes quasicrystals so interesting? Their unusual structure. Now scientists are actively pursuing this relatively new…

Study validates East Antarctic ice sheet to remain stable even if western ice sheet melts

A new study validates that the central core of the East Antarctic ice sheet should remain…

Gold nanostars and immunotherapy vaccinate mice against cancer

By combining an FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy with an emerging tumor-roasting nanotechnology, researchers improved the efficacy of…

Loans Applications? New techniques to measure social bias in software

Today, banks are increasingly using software to decide who will get a loan, courts to judge…

Loans Applications? New techniques to measure social bias in software

Today, banks are increasingly using software to decide who will get a loan, courts to judge…

AI implications: Engineer’s model lays groundwork for machine-learning device

In what could be a small step for science potentially leading to a breakthrough, an engineer…

New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises

Oceanographers report completing the largest single-site microbiome gene catalog constructed to date. With this new information,…

Disrupted gut microbiome makes children more susceptible to amoebic dysentery

Children with lower diversity of microbial species in their intestines are more susceptible to severe infection…

Gene that makes large, plump tomatoes identified

Farmers can grow big, juicy tomatoes thanks to a mutation in the cell size regulator gene…