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UCLA Study: Reducing Emissions Key to Combat Climate Change

Forget about positioning giant mirrors in space to reduce the amount of sunlight being trapped in the earth's atmosphere or seeding clouds to reduce the amount…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Variation Linked to Blond Hair: What You Need to Know

“This particular genetic variation in humans is associated with blond hair, but it isn't associated with eye color or other pigmentation traits,” says David…

Health & Medicine

Gene Defect Raises Lung Cancer Risk for Smokers: Study Insights

Scientists announce a previously unknown link between lung cancer and a particular BRCA2 defect, occurring in around 2 per cent of the population, in research…

Physics & Astronomy

Lasers Ignite Table-Top Supernova for Groundbreaking Research

Supernova explosions, triggered when the fuel within a star reignites or its core collapses, launch a detonation shock wave that sweeps through a few light…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists Use Light to Control Memory in Genetically Engineered Rats

Using a flash of light, scientists have inactivated and then reactivated a memory in genetically engineered rats. The study, supported by the National…

Life & Chemistry

Pinpointing Genetic Diseases Through Exome Deletions and Duplications

Dr Jayne Hehir-Kwa, Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics in the Translational Research group, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The…

Architecture & Construction

Innovative Pipeline Installation Reduces Environmental Impact

The near-surface installation of pipelines usually causes massive disturbance to the environment. It can create corridors up to 50 metres wide. The BINE…

Information Technology

Security Meets Privacy: ABC4Trust’s New Approach for Youth

The ABC4Trust research team is piloting this technology with young people, often thought to be the less careful about their online security. But 'that’s not…

Information Technology

Exploring the Future of Computing: Insights from Sandia Labs

Computing experts at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to help discover what computers of the future might look like, from next-generation…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smarter Underwater Drones: The Future of AUVs with Nina Mahmoudian

If Nina Mahmoudian has her way, the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) will have a much better chance of getting it right.

Studies and Analyses

Boost GDP: Cities Invest in Public Transport Upgrades

Worldwide, major cities stand to gain around $800 billion per year of economic opportunity from 2030 by upgrading their public transportation networks. This is…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Bystander CPR: Save 100,000 Lives in Europe

The best estimates currently available suggest that 350,000 deaths in each year in Europe are due to so called 'out-of-hospital cardiac arrest' (OOH-CA).This…

Health & Medicine

'Quadrapeutics' works in preclinical study of hard-to-treat tumors

The first preclinical study of a new Rice University-developed anti-cancer technology found that a novel combination of existing clinical treatments can…

Information Technology

CSIC Unveils Software to Identify Individuals in Groups

Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the…

Life & Chemistry

Enzyme Duo in Yeast Uncovers DNA Repair Backup System

The combined action of two enzymes, Srs2 and Exo1, prevents and repairs common genetic mutations in growing yeast cells, according to a new study led by…

Health & Medicine

Ovarian Cancer Subtypes Influence Bevacizumab Response

The addition of bevacizumab to standard therapy extended progression-free survival more for ovarian cancer patients with molecular subtypes labeled as…

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