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Life & Chemistry

Changes in a single gene's action can control addiction and depression-related behaviors

Regulation of a single, specific gene in a brain region related to drug addiction and depression is sufficient to reduce drug and stress responses, according…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors System 05B’s Impact in Bay of Bengal

The tropical cyclone's western edge spread over land on Sunday, Nov. 9 while the center of the low-level circulation remained over open waters of the Bay of…

Earth Sciences

Iron Fertilization’s Low Efficiency for Deep-Ocean Carbon Storage

Lead author Dr. Ian Salter from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and a team of international collaborators,…

Health & Medicine

Advancing Prosthetic Services in Developing Countries

“The supply of prosthetic and orthotic devices are affected by poverty and by cultural issues, such as attitudes towards people with disabilities. In order to…

Earth Sciences

Deep-Sea Mud Volcanoes: New Insights on Methane Emissions

They collected during 431 days data on temperature, pressure and pH and documented using a camera 25 eruptions of mud and gas. Some of these eruptions were so…

Physics & Astronomy

SwRI-led team telescope effort reveals asteroid's size for the first time

When the double asteroid Patroclus-Menoetius passed directly in front of a star on the night of Oct. 20, a team of volunteer astronomers across the U.S. was…

Information Technology

Wireless Devices for Pilots Found Vulnerable to Hacking

Researchers examined three combinations of devices and apps most commonly used by private pilots: the Appareo Stratus 2 receiver with the ForeFlight app; the…

Physics & Astronomy

ALMA Discovers Evidence of Galactic Merger in Distant Protocluster

An international team of astronomers observed these remarkable objects with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Life & Chemistry

The brain's 'inner GPS' gets dismantled

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have induced this all-too-common human experience – or a close version of it -…

Medical Engineering

3D Deep Imaging Breakthrough Enhances Biological Insights

The new method, called iDISCO, optimizes techniques for deep tissue immunolabeling and combines them with recent technological innovations in tissue clearing…

Materials Sciences

How Vibrations Transform Insulators into Conductive Metals

For more than 50 years, scientists have debated what turns particular oxide insulators, in which electrons barely move, into metals, in which electrons flow…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Links in Autism Uncovered Through Innovative Models

With the help of mouse models, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and the “tooth fairy,” researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of…

Medical Engineering

New Cold Plasma-Jet Therapy Enhances Wound Healing at MEDICA

At the international trade fair MEDICA in Düsseldorf, scientists from Greifswald will introduce the first cold plasma-jet with the aim to improve wound…

Earth Sciences

Ocean Temperature Variability: New Insights from Recent Study

The earth’s climate appears to have been more variable over the past 7,000 years than often thought. This is the conclusion of a new study forthcoming online…

Event News

Young Researchers Gather at Heidelberg Center for Innovation

Outstanding young researchers from Latin America and Europe will gather in Santiago de Chile from 17 to 28 November 2014 for the third “Santander International…

Earth Sciences

Life in Earth’s primordial sea was starved for sulfate

The findings paint a new portrait of our planet’s early biosphere and primitive marine life. Organisms require sulfur as a nutrient, and it plays a central…

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