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World’s Largest Study on Allergic Rhinitis Reveals new Risk Genes

Allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever, is the most common form of allergy. It is triggered by airborne allergens, including pollens, house dust mite and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Key Policies for Low Carbon Vehicle Market Success

The new study, led by IIASA researcher David McCollum and IIASA and University of East Anglia, UK, researcher Charlie Wilson, is the first to take a global…

Life & Chemistry

How Plant Mothers Use Auxin to Communicate with Embryos

While pregnancy in humans and seed development in plants look very different, parallels exist – not least that the embryo develops in close connection with the…

Physics & Astronomy

Subaru Telescope Unveils Origin of Ultra-High Energy Neutrino

On September 22, 2017 the IceCube experiment at Amundsen Scott station in Antarctica detected an ultra-high energy neutrino coming from outer space and was…

Earth Sciences

North American Forests’ Carbon Sequestration Capacity Revealed

Researchers have calculated the capacity of North American forests to sequester carbon in a detailed analysis that for the first time integrates the effects of…

Life & Chemistry

Barium Ruthenate: New Catalyst Boosts Sulfide Oxidation Efficiency

A research group led by Keigo Kamata and Michikazu Hara of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has succeeded in developing a barium ruthenate (BaRuO3)…

Transportation and Logistics

Boosting Rail Freight: New Standards and Digital Innovations

In the LowCarb-RFC project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and its project partners are exploring how European rail freight…

Physics & Astronomy

Nano-kirigami: 'Paper-cut' provides model for 3D intelligent nanofabrication

Dr. LI Jiafang, from the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently formed an international team to apply kirigami techniques to…

Physics & Astronomy

Highest-Precision Prediction of Muon Magnetic Anomaly Revealed

Theoretical physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have just released the most precise…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking the Sulfate Code: Insights on Tau Protein Misfolding

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are associated with particular proteins in the brain misfolding, aggregating, and inducing normal proteins to misfold and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Natural Product Discovery Paves Way for New Herbicide Class

A garden can be a competitive environment. Plants and unseen microorganisms in the soil all need precious space to grow. And to gain that space, a microbe…

Life & Chemistry

Deconstructing Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors for Better Insights

According to the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer type in men and the…

Event News

Experts Discuss Precision Medicine in Diabetes and Metabolism

About 100 internationally renowned scientists discussed most advanced concepts for biomedical discovery and routes towards clinical application. The…

Materials Sciences

New Boron-Based Nanoclusters Unveil Unique Molecular Structures

The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, July 9, suggest that these nanoclusters may be useful as molecular…

Information Technology

New Machine Learning Method Enhances Robot Safety Extrapolation

Understanding how a robot will react under different conditions is essential to guaranteeing its safe operation. But how do you know what will break a robot…

Life & Chemistry

Algae Reveal Land Genes from Ancient Plant Transition

500 million years ago, the first plants living in water took to land. The genetic adaptations associated with this transition can already be recognized in the…

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