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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., July 29 (UPI) — Most men treated for prostate cancer, even if their prostate-specific antigen level and cancer risk are low, receive aggressive treatment, U.S. researchers say.
Yu-Hsuan Shao of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick and colleagues used data from 123,934 men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer [...]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., July 29 (UPI) — Most men treated for prostate cancer, even if their prostate-specific antigen level and cancer risk are low, receive aggressive treatment, U.S. researchers say.
Yu-Hsuan Shao of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in New Brunswick and colleagues used data from 123,934 men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 27 (UPI) — U.S. researchers say they’ve made a discovery that could bring nuclear fusion reactors and the possibility of clean, almost limitless power one step closer.
Scientists at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., have made discoveries critical to understanding reactions between hot plasma inside a fusion reactor and [...]

OSHAWA, Ontario, July 23 (UPI) — Canadian astronomers say they’ve found buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs, one of the strongest molecular structures known on Earth, in outer space.
The molecules were discovered in the remains of a distant star by a University of Ontario team led by astronomer Jan Cami, the online journal Science [...]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 21 (UPI) — English ivy nanoparticles may be key to more effective sunblocks, U.S. researchers suggest.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville say tiny particles secreted from the rootlets of the ivy plant that enable the plant to cling to fences and walls show great promise for use in [...]