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Earth Sciences

New Insights on Volcanic Forcing Over 2,000 Years

A team of scientists led by Michael Sigl and Joe McConnell of Nevada's Desert Research Institute (DRI) has completed the most accurate and precise…

Studies and Analyses

NYU Study Reveals 18% of High School Seniors Smoke Hookah

While cigarette use is declining precipitously among youth, evidence indicates that American adolescents are turning to ethnically-linked alternative tobacco…

Studies and Analyses

China’s hidden water footprint

Many developed regions in China are not only drawing from their own water resources but also contributing to water depletion in other water-scarce regions of…

Corporate News

Siemens Enters Belgium’s Wind Market with New Project

Siemens Energy has secured its first wind power contract in Belgium with an order for the first phase of the Wind aan de Stroom project on the left bank of the…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Douglas Weakens Over Eastern Pacific Region

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-West satellite captured visible data on Douglas just after sunrise on July 3 at 13:15 UTC…

Materials Sciences

Advancing Plasmonics: Thinning and Smoothing for Less Loss

Plasmonic devices — such as superlenses, hyperlenses and plasmonic waveguides — have exciting potential for research and commercial applications because they…

Life & Chemistry

Cholera Innovation: New Inhibitor Blocks Toxin Binding Effectively

Cholera against cholera: a novel inhibitor prevents the cholera toxin from binding to carbohydrates found on the surface of intestinal cells. An international…

Physics & Astronomy

A young star's age can be gleamed from nothing but sound waves

Determining the age of stars has long been a challenge for astronomers. In experiments published in the journal Science, researchers at KU Leuven's Institute…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Fly Immunity Weakens Against Fungus After Spaceflight

In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers led by Deborah Kimbrell, Ph.D., at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and their collaborators,…

Materials Sciences

With 'ribbons' of graphene, width matters

Using graphene ribbons of unimaginably small widths – just several atoms across – a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has…

Life & Chemistry

Sweet Genes: New Link Between Metabolism and Regulation

A research team at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta have discovered a new way by which metabolism is linked to the regulation…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Malaria: Understanding an Old Pathogen

According to current estimates, there are more than 200 million people worldwide suffering from malaria, and roughly one million die each year from this…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Living Cell Signaling for Treatment Advances

A breakthrough discovery into how living cells process and respond to chemical information could help advance the development of treatments for a large number…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Soil Carbon Loss: Impact of Converting Pastures to Sugarcane

The reduction of soil carbon stock caused by the conversion of pasture areas into sugarcane plantations – a very common change in Brazil in recent years – may…

Event News

Painless Atrial Fibrillation Treatment Unveiled at FCVB 2014

The first evidence for a shockless treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) will be presented today at Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology (FCVB) 2014 in…

Machine Engineering

European ROS-Industrial Consortium Launches at Fraunhofer IPA

Under the leadership of Fraunhofer IPA, the kick-off of the European ROS-Industrial consortium as well as the second international ROS-Industrial conference…

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