Alaska earthquakes offer new insight into improving hazard assessment

Earthquake hazard assessment often overlooks intra-slab earthquakes. EarthScope Transportable Array data for the 2016 Iniskin and…

Shape-shifting cell breakthrough

A new computational model gives a clearer picture of the structure and mechanics of soft, shape-changing…

Internet therapy apps reduce depression symptoms

In a sweeping new study, psychologists have found that a series of self-guided, internet-based therapy platforms…

New discoveries predict ability to forecast dementia from single molecule

Scientists who recently identified the molecular start of Alzheimer's disease have used that finding to determine…

Warming, sea-ice loss: Arctic Report Card tracks region’s environmental changes

NOAA's annual report card on the Arctic, released today, shows that the Arctic region experienced the…

Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

Seventy percent of the current infrastructure in the Arctic has a high potential to be affected…

How returning to a prior context briefly heightens memory recall

Returning to the context where a memory was formed temporarily brings back vivid details of the…

Lethal combination: Drug cocktail turns off the juice to cancer cells

A widely used diabetes medication combined with an antihypertensive drug specifically inhibits tumor growth - this…

Perovskite solar cells: cheaper production and high efficiency

A team of chemists and physicists is offering a novel approach for the selective layer formation…

Transformed: The plant whose sex life fascinated Charles Darwin

Researchers have genetically transformed the Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) for the first time in a development…