Jackfruit seeds could help ease looming cocoa bean shortage

Chocolate lovers could soon have a harder time satisfying their sweet tooth. Worldwide demand for this…

First solar images from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite

The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite have…

Nanoinjection increases survival rate of cells

How do tumours grow? And how do bacteria transform harmless substances into medical agents? When biophysicists…

Scars from the Big Bang: Galaxy cluster and cosmic background

The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on…

Racial gap in children’s asthma linked to social inequality

African-American and poor children in the United States suffer disproportionately from asthma. But according to a…

Fine-tuned microscopy technique offers breakthrough imaging of melanoma

Researchers have recently refined a classic Raman-based technique and succeeded in imaging the two dominant melanin…

Exploring the cause of chronic lung transplant rejection, in a quest to stop it

Researchers have investigated the scarring process in the lungs of recent lung transplant patients in hopes…

A new cosmic survey offers unprecedented view of galaxies

Scientists have published a 'cosmic census' of a large swath of the night sky containing roughly…

Researchers suggest new theory for how Parkinson’s disease develops

The toxic protein behind Parkinson’s disease may not spread like an infection from nerve cell to…

Study finds single, escalated dose of brachytherapy radiation may be a safe and effective treatment for localized prostate cancer

Results from a new prospective clinical trial indicate that high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy administered in a single,…