Focused delivery for brain cancers

Medical researchers are working toward a more focused drug delivery system that could target tumors lodged…

Antioxidant reduces risk for second heart attack, stroke

Doctors have long known that in the months after a heart attack or stroke, patients are…

Hormone therapy can make prostate cancer worse, study finds

Scientists have discovered how prostate cancer can sometimes withstand and outwit a standard hormone therapy, causing…

High precision microbial population dynamics under cycles of feast and famine

Scientists have produced the most precise picture to date of population dynamics in fluctuating feast-or-famine conditions.…

California: Global warming, El Niño could cause wetter winters, drier conditions in other months

New research indicates that what future precipitation California gets will be pretty much limited to the…

Giving tortoises a ‘head start’

Research indicates that head-starting -- raising a species in captivity and releasing it into a protected…

Parsing natural climate variability from human-caused climate change

A new study says pink noise may be the key to separating out natural climate variability…

Ultracold atoms used to verify 1963 prediction about 1D electrons

Atomic physicists have verified a key prediction from a 55-year-old theory about one-dimensional electronics that is…

Why we stick to false beliefs: Feedback trumps hard evidence

Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in…

NASA-funded rocket to view sun with X-ray vision

The FOXSI sounding rocket will scour the Sun with X-ray vision, looking for the mysterious mini-explosions…