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Life & Chemistry

Mapping the DNA-Splitting Machine: Key Protein Assembly Insights

The proteins that drive DNA replication—the force behind cellular growth and reproduction—are some of the most complex machines on Earth. The multistep…

Materials Sciences

ORNL Research Unveils Unique 3-D Printing Capabilities

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure and…

Communications Media

Study: Product Placement Reduces TV Audience Loss by 10%

Coordinating product placement with advertising in the same television program can reduce audience loss over commercial breaks by 10%, according to a new study…

Health & Medicine

Tuning Light with Nanoparticles to Target Deep Cancer Tumors

An international group of scientists led by Gang Han, PhD, at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has combined a new type of nanoparticle with an…

Studies and Analyses

Change Your Walking Style to Boost Your Mood

Subjects who were prompted to walk in a more depressed style, with less arm movement and their shoulders rolled forward, experienced worse moods than those who…

Environmental Conservation

Sleeper Sharks: New Study Links Them to Steller Sea Lions

A new study found the first indirect evidence that this cold-blooded shark that can grow to a length of more than 20 feet – longer than a great white shark –…

Physics & Astronomy

Milky Way Strips Dwarf Galaxies of Star-Forming Gas

These new radio observations, which are the highest sensitivity of their kind ever undertaken, reveal that within a well-defined boundary around our Galaxy,…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Super-Earths: A New Frontier in Astronomy

For as long as astronomers have been looking to the skies, we have had just one planetary system—our own—to study in depth. That means we have only…

Medical Engineering

Cheek Surgery: A Breakthrough in Epilepsy Treatment

For those most severely affected, treating epilepsy means drilling through the skull deep into the brain to destroy the small area where the seizures originate…

Environmental Conservation

Jellyfish Falls: Key to Deep-Sea Ecosystem Health

This week, researchers from University of Hawai'i, Norway, and the UK have shown with innovative experiments that a rise in jellyfish blooms near the ocean's…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Captures Major Atlantic Hurricane Gonzalo

NOAA's GOES-East satellite provides visible and infrared images of weather from its orbit in a fixed position over the Earth. On Oct. 15 at 15:15 UTC (11:15…

Health & Medicine

Optimal Particle Size Boosts Anticancer Nanomedicine Efficacy

“To develop next generation nanomedicines with superior anti-cancer attributes, we must understand the correlation between their physicochemical…

Earth Sciences

Microfossils Show Warm Oceans Had Lower Oxygen Levels

Researchers in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences are pairing chemical analyses with micropaleontology—the study of tiny fossilized…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers in Berlin and Bath Identify “Naïve-Like” Human Stem Cells

They also discovered the mechanism that turns human ES cells into naïve-like human stem cells. While this has potential implications for medicine and for…

Health & Medicine

Adenosine can melt "love handles"

An international team of researchers led by Professor Alexander Pfeifer from the University Hospital Bonn, have now come one step closer to this goal. The…

Earth Sciences

NASA Study Reveals 1934’s Historic Drought Insights

Using a tree-ring-based drought record from the years 1000 to 2005 and modern records, scientists from NASA and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the 1934…

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