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Environmental Conservation

Improving Wildland Fire Predictions Through Innovative Modeling

Dr. Mahalingam is studying how wildland fire propagates in an effort to be able to more accurately model such fires via physically based computational models….

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals 100,000 African Elephants Killed in Three Years

This study provides the first verifiable estimation of the impacts of the ongoing ivory crisis on Africa’s elephant populations to date, solidifying…

Health & Medicine

How NSAIDs Impact Enzyme Activity Beyond Inflammation

Researchers have discovered that three commonly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, alter the activity of enzymes within cell membranes….

Environmental Conservation

Marine Protected Areas: Challenges for Overfished Reefs Recovery

Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighborhood, and use that ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs.

Studies and Analyses

Early Bottlenecks Delay Biopharmaceutical Product Launches

Biopharmaceutical drugs are frequently derived from discoveries made in university laboratories and licensed to biotechnology firms. Bottlenecks are well known…

Life & Chemistry

Biologists Reprogram Skin Cells to Study Rare Disease

Johns Hopkins stem cell biologists have found a way to reprogram a patient’s skin cells into cells that mimic and display many biological features of a rare…

Earth Sciences

Subglacial Lake Beneath Antarctic Ice Hosts Microbial Life

B-roll from the WISSARD project is available by contacting Dena Headlee, dheadlee@nsf.gov / (703) 292-7739.

Life & Chemistry

Why Cow Milk Allergen Affects Some: New Research Insights

Scientists at Messerli Research Institute at the Vetmeduni Vienna, the Medical University of Vienna, and the University of Vienna investigated what actually…

Corporate News

Siemens Wins Order for 67 Wind Turbines at Dudgeon Plant

Siemens Energy has received an order from the Norwegian energy utilities Statoil and Statkraft for the “Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm” in the UK. Siemens will…

Life & Chemistry

How Lizards Regenerate Their Tails: Researchers Discover Genetic ‘Recipe’

By understanding the secret of how lizards regenerate their tails, researchers may be able to develop ways to stimulate the regeneration of limbs in humans….

Life & Chemistry

Moving Single Cells Around — Accurately and Cheaply

“Studying single cells and their unique functions has become a frontier in current biomedical research,” said nanomedicine department. faculty member Lidong…

Physics & Astronomy

New Evidence of Undetected Strange Baryons Unveiled

New supercomputing calculations provide the first evidence that particles predicted by the theory of quark-gluon interactions but never before observed are…

Studies and Analyses

Study Finds Colds Linked to Temporary Stroke Risk in Kids

“While the study does show an increased risk, the overall risk of stroke among children is still extremely low,” said Lars Marquardt, MD, DPhil, of the…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking Plant Hormones: Insights Into Plant Metabolism

Researchers trying to get new information about the metabolism of plants can switch off individual genes and study the resulting changes. However, Erich…

Life & Chemistry

Harnessing Solar Fuels: Nature’s Solution for Energy Supply

Society’s energy supply problems could be solved in the future using a model adopted from nature. During photosynthesis, plants, algae and some species of…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Gene Boosts Immune System Reset by 500 Million Years

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics (MPI-IE) in Freiburg re-activated expression of an ancient gene, which is not normally…

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