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Environmental Conservation

Fish Adapt to Climate Change: New Insights on Adaptation

Climate change continues apace thanks to increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The greenhouse effect has led not only to an increase in…

Life & Chemistry

Gut Bacteria Linked to Obesity in Mice Study Findings

A research team from the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke in Nuthetal observed that mice harboring human gut bacteria including C. ramosum

Studies and Analyses

Frequent Colonoscopies: Examining Overuse in Endoscopy Practices

“Our study shows that a high percentage of follow-up colonoscopies are being performed too early, resulting in use of scarce health care resources with…

Process Engineering

Chinese Scientists Develop 3D Printing with Liquid Metal Ink

Now scientists at the Beijing Key Laboratory of CryoBiomedical Engineering, part of the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of…

Physics & Astronomy

First PandaX-I Results: China’s Dark Matter Search Unveiled

PandaX is the first dark matter experiment in China that deploys more than one hundred kilograms of xenon as a detector; the project is designed to monitor…

Environmental Conservation

Carbon Emissions Linked to 300 Years of Cropland in Northeast China

In a new study published in the Beijing-based journal SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers from Beijing Normal University, Nanjing University of…

Studies and Analyses

Alcohol makes smiles more 'contagious,' but only for men

“This experimental alcohol study, which included a social context, finds the clearest evidence yet of greater alcohol reinforcement for men than women,” says…

Corporate News

Siemens Wins Major Amtrak Support Contract for Locomotives

This is Siemens' largest technical support contract for passenger locomotives to-date in the U.S. In 2010, Amtrak ordered 70 Amtrak Cities Sprinter electric…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smart Eco-Friendly Battery: A Step Toward Sustainable Energy

'We think our discovery can open several doors to more environment-friendly, energy-efficient solutions for the batteries of the future,' says Daniel Brandell,…

Physics & Astronomy

Ancient Stars’ Unusual Deaths Revealed by New Simulations

Certain primordial stars—those between 55,000 and 56,000 times the mass of our Sun, or solar masses—may have died unusually. In death, these objects—among…

Earth Sciences

Climate Detectives Uncover Human Impact on Australia’s Climate

Australia's hottest year on record in 2013 along with the accompanying droughts, heat waves and record-breaking seasons of that year was virtually impossible…

Earth Sciences

220 Million-Year-Old Tooth Reveals Ancient Predator Attack

At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs, gigantic reptiles—distant relatives of modern crocodiles—ruled the earth. Some lived on land and others in water and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Underwater Robot Enhances Port Security Innovations

Last week, at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, MIT researchers unveiled an oval-shaped submersible robot, a little smaller than…

Physics & Astronomy

Cloudy with a Chance of…Solar Flares?

Earl Scime, Oleg D. Jefimenko Professor of Physics and interim vice president of research at West Virginia University, has been awarded a grant from the…

Environmental Conservation

Biologists Work to Save Endangered Pupfish from Extinction

Considered the world’s rarest fish, with one of the smallest geographic ranges of any wild vertebrate, the tiny pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) – about one-inch…

Environmental Conservation

Water Research Addresses Grassland Threats from Trees

By looking at 25 years of data on the Konza Prairie Biological Station, Allison Veach, doctoral student in biology, Muncie, Indiana, and Walter Dodds,…

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