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Physics & Astronomy

It's filamentary: How galaxies evolve in the cosmic web

How do galaxies like our Milky Way form, and just how do they evolve? Are galaxies affected by their surrounding environment? An international team of…

Event News

Central Asia’s Agricultural Trade: Key Insights from ReCCA

‘Regional Economic Cooperation in Central Asia: Agricultural Production and Trade’ (ReCCA) is the title of the conference which will be hosted by IAMO from…

Life & Chemistry

Dopamine’s Impact Revealed Through Brain Scans and fMRI

Researchers use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify which areas of the brain are active during specific tasks.

Health & Medicine

Unveiling STING: Key Mechanisms in Radiation Response

A team of researchers led by Ludwig Chicago's Yang-Xin Fu and Ralph Weichselbaum has uncovered the primary signaling mechanisms and cellular interactions that…

Physics & Astronomy

Estimating Exoplanet Magnetic Fields: A New Approach

In the two decades which passed since the discovery of the first planet outside the Solar system, astronomers have made a great progress in the study of these…

Materials Sciences

UO Collaboration Enhances Nanomaterials for Solar Cells

A potential path to identify imperfections and improve the quality of nanomaterials for use in next-generation solar cells has emerged from a collaboration of…

Earth Sciences

Deep-Earth Carbon Insights Shed Light on Life’s Origins

New findings by a Johns Hopkins University-led team reveal long unknown details about carbon deep beneath the Earth’s surface and suggest ways this…

Awards Funding

27 Young Researchers Win Starting Grants for Innovative Projects

The SNSF set up Temporary Backup Schemes (TBS) in March 2014. They enabled excellent researchers working or planning to work at Swiss research institutions to…

Earth Sciences

Time-Lapse Photos Reveal Antarctic Secrets Through Weather Data

In preparation for his upcoming fieldwork, Brown University research analyst Jay Dickson took 10,000 pictures of the inside of his freezer. He wasn’t…

Environmental Conservation

Aggressive Conifer Removal Boosts Sierra Aspen Health

Most of the aspen stands that dotted the Sierra Nevada less than a century ago are gone or in poor health. Aspen stands can increase groundwater, enrich soils…

Studies and Analyses

Cost of Living Surges in Washington: Wages Struggle to Keep Up

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington State 2014, released Thursday (Nov. 20), provides a sobering look at how much it costs individuals and families…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Nuclear Reactor Fuel Behavior During Crises

Using the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, researchers from DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and…

Life & Chemistry

Cohesin: The Key Molecule for Accurate Cell Division

The ring-shaped cohesin complex ensures that each round of cell division yields two daughter cells with identical sets of chromosomes. The peculiar molecule…

Life & Chemistry

Plant Immunity: Balancing Protection and Autoimmunity Risks

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Germany have now pinpointed the most common culprits for autoimmunity. Surprisingly,…

Business and Finance

Deutsche Börse Acquires Stake in R5FX FinTech Firm

Die Deutsche Börse AG hat einen Minderheitsanteil an R5FX Ltd., einem in London ansässigen FinTech-Unternehmen mit Spezialisierung auf Emerging…

Technology Offerings

Carbon Nanotubes Enable Long-Term Cell Imaging Breakthrough

To understand biological functions at a molecular level it is important to know how proteins moving around. Todays optical equipment cannot resolve and track single molecules with high resolution in living cells. Our scientists developed a method for long-term detecting single molecules in living cells based on carbon nanotubes.

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