NASA continues to study pulsars, 50 years after their chance discovery

These rotating 'lighthouse' neutron stars begin their lives as stars between about seven and 20 times…

New avenue for precision cancer treatment discovered

One of the goals of personalized medicine is to be able to determine which treatment would…

New imaging tracer allows early assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm risk

Researchers have developed a way in which medical imaging with SPECT/CT could potentially be used to…

Deadly fungus affecting hibernating bats could spread during summer

The cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd) that causes white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed…

Technique enables printable and rewritable color images

A chemical process that allows color images to be printed on specially coated paper and then…

Magic helps unmask how the brain works

Scientists have used the 'mirror box' illusion -- an old magic trick - in a number…

Lifelike 3-D cinematic imaging promises numerous medical uses

Newly developed 'cinematic rendering' technology can produce photorealistic 3-D images from traditional CT and MRI data,…

No simple way of predicting breathing difficulties in pugs, French bulldogs and bulldogs from external features

As many as a half of all short-nosed dogs such as pugs, French bulldogs and bulldogs…

Dietary restriction can improve learning in worms

Dietary restriction -- the reduction of a specific nutrient or total dietary intake without triggering malnutrition…

Chemical weathering could alleviate some climate change effects

Scientists have discovered that chemical weathering, a process in which carbon dioxide breaks down rocks and…