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Health & Medicine

Daily Lean Beef Consumption May Lower Blood Pressure

“This research adds to the significant evidence, including work previously done in our lab, that supports lean beef's role in a heart-healthy diet,” said Penny…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Cheese Innovation: Rachel Dutton’s Delightful Research

Go ahead and call Rachel Dutton's research cheesy if you must. As far as she's concerned, it's anything but an insult.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Lasers Could Replace Quartz in Future Electronics

For nearly 100 years, these oscillators have relied upon quartz crystals to provide a frequency reference, much like a tuning fork is used as a reference…

Life & Chemistry

New Pathway for Cellular Garbage Control in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Cellular “garbage” can be removed from cells by sweeping them to a cellular recycling station known as the lysosome. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of…

Physics & Astronomy

"Nanocamera" takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelength

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated that an array of novel gold, pillar-bowtie nanoantennas (pBNAs) can be used…

Environmental Conservation

Tiniest catch: University of Arizona scientists' fishing expedition reveals viral diversity in the sea

Using lab-cultured bacteria as “bait,” a team of scientists led by Matthew Sullivan has sequenced complete and partial genomes of about 10 million viruses from…

Physics & Astronomy

Lunar Pits Could Shelter Astronauts, Reveal Details of How 'Man in the Moon' Formed

The pits range in size from about 5 meters (~5 yards) across to more than 900 meters (~984 yards) in diameter, and three of them were first identified using…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Advances in Robotic Grasping for Everyday Tasks

Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to pull off single-handedly. Now a new…

Environmental Conservation

Dispersant from Deepwater Horizon Spill Persists in Environment

In an attempt to prevent vast quantities of oil from fouling beaches and marshes, BP applied 1.84 million gallons of chemical dispersant to oil to oil released…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Uncover New Process Beyond Higgs Particle Discovery

Scientists running the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful “atom smasher,” report the first evidence of…

Materials Sciences

New Materials Powering Future Green Tech Devices

From your hot car to your warm laptop, every machine and device in your life wastes a lot of energy through the loss of heat. But thermoelectric devices, which…

Physics & Astronomy

Direct Visualization of Hydrogen Bonds Using Ultrafast Light

Using a newly developed, ultrafast femtosecond infrared light source, chemists at the University of Chicago have been able to directly visualize the…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular ‘Eat Now’ Signal Makes Cells Devour Dying Neighbors

A team of researchers has devised a Pac-Man-style power pellet that gets normally mild-mannered cells to gobble up their undesirable neighbors. The development…

Studies and Analyses

Worm Study Offers Insights Into Adult Onset Neuronal Lipofuscinosis

The scientists studied adult onset neuronal lipofuscinosis (ANCL) which usually strikes around 1 in 100,000 people in Europe and North America in their 30s and…

Life & Chemistry

Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Cut Cardiovascular Deaths in Diabetes

However, a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center suggests that the use of cholesterol-lowering statins may help prolong the lives of…

Health & Medicine

Poor Sleep Quality Tied to Reduced Activity in PTSD Patients

Results show that PTSD was independently associated with worse sleep quality at baseline, and participants with current PTSD at baseline had lower physical…

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