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Physics & Astronomy

Fundamentals of Physics: New Experiments Confirm Theories

To explore any possible limits of the two theories, they have been experimentally verified many times already and both have passed all the tests so far. Hence,…

Health & Medicine

Computers Boost AIDS Research: New Hope for HIV Treatment

Effective treatment of HIV-virus is a race against time: Many of the drugs that have been potent killers of HIV-virus, have today lost their power, because the…

Health & Medicine

New Insights for Early Colorectal Cancer Detection

“Colorectal cancer is still one of the most frequent and deadliest cancers worldwide. But diagnosed in time it can be cured in 9 out of 10 cases”, said…

Studies and Analyses

Stroke-Fighting Drug Shows Promise for Traumatic Brain Injury

In the first examination of its kind, researchers Ye Xiong, Ph.D, Zhongwu Liu, Ph.D., and Michael Chopp, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the Henry Ford…

Earth Sciences

NASA Adds Up Japan's Soaking Rains from Typhoon Phanfone

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has the ability to calculate rainfall rates within storms as it orbits around the Earth's tropics…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Non-Coding Genome: Novel Sequencing Breakthrough

The game-changing discovery was part of a study led by Texas A&M biology doctoral candidate John C. Aldrich and Dr. Keith A. Maggert, an associate professor in…

Life & Chemistry

‘Programmable’ Antibiotic Harnesses an Enzyme to Attack Drug-Resistant Microbes

Researchers at Rockefeller University and their collaborators are working on smarter antibiotic. And in research published October 5 in Nature Biotechnology,…

Materials Sciences

New Method for Creating Sustainable Lightweight Foams

At its most basic level, foam is a bunch of bubbles squished together. Liquid foams, a state of matter that arises from tiny gas bubbles dispersed in a liquid,…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Monitors Super Typhoon Vongfong with Advanced Tech

On Oct. 7 at 0429 UTC (12:29 a.m. EDT) the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder called AIRS that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured cloud top temperature data…

Health & Medicine

New Fast-Acting Therapy Shows Promise for Autoimmune Muscle Weakness

Now, a pair of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a fast-acting “vaccine” that can reverse the…

Health & Medicine

Probiotic Yogurt Reduces Heavy Metal Uptake in Pregnancy

New research shows probiotic yogurt can reduce the uptake of certain heavy metals and environmental toxins by up to 78% in pregnant women. Led by Scientists at…

Life & Chemistry

The "Cyberwar" Against Cancer Gets a Boost from Intelligent Nanocarriers

Two years ago, Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University's School of Physics and Astronomy and Rice University's Center for Theoretical Biological Physics…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Captures Tropical Storm Simon Over Baja California

 

Life & Chemistry

New 'lab-on-a-chip' could revolutionize early diagnosis of cancer

“Exosomes are minuscule membrane vesicles — or sacs — released from most, if not all, cell types, including cancer cells,” said Yong Zeng, assistant professor…

Environmental Conservation

Red Fox Evolution: A 400,000-Year Journey Uncovered

That’s what scientists studying the evolution of the red fox had been doing for decades. Now, University of California, Davis, researchers have for the first…

Health & Medicine

Sleeping in Dentures Doubles Pneumonia Risk in Seniors

To identify modifiable oral health-related risk factors, lead researcher Toshimitsu Iinuma, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Japan, and a team of…

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