Addicted To Tanning?

Addicted To Tanning?

BOWLING GREEN, O.—They keep tanning, even after turning a deep brown and experiencing some of the negative consequences. Skin cancer is among the most common, preventable types of the disease, yet…
A Forgotten Model Of The Universe

A Forgotten Model Of The Universe

A paper published in EPJ H provides the first English translation and an analysis of one of Albert Einstein's little-known papers, "On the cosmological problem of the general theory of relativity."…
An Essential Step Toward Printing Living Tissues

An Essential Step Toward Printing Living Tissues

BOSTON — A new bioprinting method developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) creates…
The FDA On BPA Safety

The FDA On BPA Safety

In June 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) answered the question “Is BPA safe?” with a simple and unambiguous answer – “Yes.”  In contrast, countless words have been written over…
BPA Implicated In Primate Organ Development

BPA Implicated In Primate Organ Development

Bisphenol A (BPA) has been used for decades in a wide variety of consumer products, like metal food and beverage containers, thermal paper store receipts, and dental composites. Though the FDA has…
What Good Are Footprints?

What Good Are Footprints?

The notion of environmental "footprinting" as a way to represent the impact of human activity on the planet's environment has become a veritable industry over the last two decades. Since the concept…
A Stretchable Highway For Light

A Stretchable Highway For Light

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2014—For futuristic applications like wearable body sensors and robotic skin, researchers need to ferry information along flexible routes. Electronics that bend and stretch have…
Kidney Cancer Reveals Its Weak Link

Kidney Cancer Reveals Its Weak Link

A team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology has found that kidney cancer cells have a quite different metabolism than other types of malignancies. The findings pave the way for new…
Cows Moove Our Understanding Of The Immune System

Cows Moove Our Understanding Of The Immune System

WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 18, 2014 -- Understanding how antibodies work is important for designing new vaccines to fight infectious diseases and certain types of cancer and for treating disorders of the…
Calico Cats Inspire X Chromosome Research

Calico Cats Inspire X Chromosome Research

WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 18, 2014 -- Calico cats, renowned and beloved for their funky orange and black patchwork or "tortoiseshell" fur, can thank X chromosome inactivation or "silencing" for their…