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Gardens Boost Dementia Care: New Study Insights

The research is published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and by critically reviewing the findings from 17 different pieces of…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Uncover Disease in 700-Year-Old Skeleton

Reporting this week in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, the authors describe using a technique called shotgun…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Groundwater Declines: AgriLife Research Insights and Solutions

The groundwater declines have been most severe in the past four decades, but the news isn't all bad, according to Dr. Srinivasulu Ale, AgriLife Research…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into the First Stars: Astrophysics Breakthrough

“One of the great challenges of modern astrophysics has been the quest to identify the first generation of stars to form in the universe, which we refer to as…

Environmental Conservation

Belize's lobster, conch, and fish populations rebuild in no-take zones

The report—titled “Review of the Benefits of No-Take Zones”—represents a systematic review of research literature from no-take areas around the world. The…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s High-Flying Laser Altimeter to Check Out Summer Sea Ice and More

Icy areas look different from a satellite’s perspective as well. When NASA launches the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, in 2017, it…

Physics & Astronomy

Landsat’s Lunar Scans Enhance Earth Imaging Accuracy

These monthly lunar scans are key to ensuring the land-imaging instrument aboard Landsat 8 is detecting light consistently. For this, engineers need a…

Life & Chemistry

Vibrations in Spinach Leaves Boost Photosynthesis Efficiency

The findings could potentially help engineers make more efficient solar cells and energy storage systems. They also inject new evidence into an ongoing…

Earth Sciences

Australia’s Drying Climate Linked to Greenhouse Gas Impact

NOAA scientists have developed a new high-resolution climate model that shows southwestern Australia's long-term decline in fall and winter rainfall is caused…

Life & Chemistry

Wisconsin Researchers Uncover Stem Cell Blood Transformation Method

Writing today in the journal Nature Communications, a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Igor Slukvin reports the discovery of…

Life & Chemistry

Rutgers Chemists Unveil Breakthrough in Clean Hydrogen Fuel Production

Rutgers researchers have developed a technology that could overcome a major cost barrier to make clean-burning hydrogen fuel – a fuel that could replace…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers discover boron 'buckyball'

Researchers from Brown University, Shanxi University and Tsinghua University in China have shown that a cluster of 40 boron atoms forms a hollow molecular cage…

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Life & Chemistry

Dating Metal Artifacts: New Electrode Innovation Explained

How can the age of archeological objects be determined if the well-established carbon dating method does not apply, for example for metal objects? Spanish and…

Health & Medicine

Stanford Researchers Develop Nanotech Microchip for Type-1 Diabetes

Described in a paper to be published online July 13 in Nature Medicine, the test employs nanotechnology to detect type-1 diabetes outside hospital settings….

Health & Medicine

Potential Alzheimer's disease risk factor and risk reduction strategies become clearer

Participation in activities that promote mental activity, and moderate physical activity in middle age, may help protect against the development of Alzheimer's…

Life & Chemistry

New Technology Enhances Cancer Cell Diagnosis Accuracy

Investigating diseased organs and tissues under the microscope is one of their tasks. However, human judgment is, by its very nature, subject to a certain…

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