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Physics & Astronomy

New Galactic Supercluster Discovery Redefines Milky Way’s Home

This discovery clarifies the boundaries of our galactic neighborhood and establishes previously unrecognized linkages among various galaxy clusters in the…

Earth Sciences

Ozone Pollution in India Threatens Crops for 94 Million People

These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant…

Process Engineering

Laser Hybrid Welding: Joining High-Strength Steels Effectively

However, for thicker high-strength, fine-grain structural steels, hot cracks and undesired hardness levels can occur in the welding seam. For this reason, in…

Awards Funding

Funding Boost for HPC Competence Center at Mainz University

The Carl Zeiss Foundation will be providing a total of EUR 750,000 over four years to fund the Competence Center for HPC in the Natural Sciences at the…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta’s Alice Spectrograph Captures First Comet UV Spectra

NASA’s Alice ultraviolet (UV) spectrograph aboard the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet orbiter has delivered its first scientific discoveries. Rosetta, in…

Life & Chemistry

Rare Stem Cells in Testis Offer Hope for Infertility Treatments

 

Studies and Analyses

Sugar Substitutes: Are They Really Healthier Choices?

In the study, participants compared the taste of non-nutritive sweeteners that are often used as low- or no-calorie sugar substitutes with those of nutritive…

Materials Sciences

Molybdenite Biosensor Surpasses Graphene in Sensitivity

Move over, graphene. An atomically thin, two-dimensional, ultrasensitive semiconductor material for biosensing developed by researchers at UC Santa…

Life & Chemistry

Glanville Fritillary Genome Sequenced at University of Helsinki

 Now the species has become even more significant. Led by Research Professor Ilkka Hanski, the Metapopulation Research Group (MRG) at the University of…

Environmental Conservation

California Blue Whales Make Historic Recovery From Whaling

This is the only population of blue whales known to have recovered from whaling – blue whales as a species having been hunted nearly to extinction.

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Dolly's Remnants Bringing Showers to the Rio Grande Valley

NASA's Aqua satellite captured the remnants of Tropical Depression Dolly over northeastern Mexico on Sept. 3 at 19:40 UTC (3:40 p.m. EDT). The image, captured…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Norbert Captured in Stunning NASA Satellite Imagery

The MODIS instrument or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible picture of Tropical Storm Norbert on…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Global Research Agenda for Climate-Smart Agriculture

In a paper appearing online in the journal Agriculture and Food Security, the authors summarize the findings of the second international Climate Smart…

Materials Sciences

Magnetic Nanocubes Form Helical Superstructures for Innovation

Nanoparticles of magnetite, the most abundant magnetic material on earth, are found in living organisms from bacteria to birds. Nanocrystals of magnetite…

Studies and Analyses

Bra Usage and Breast Cancer: What Recent Research Reveals

“There have been some concerns that one of the reasons why breast cancer may be more common in developed countries compared with developing countries is…

Environmental Conservation

Near-extinct African amphibians 'invisible' under climate change

Using African amphibians as a case study, the researchers found that more than 90 per cent of the species listed as threatened on The IUCN Red List of…

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