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Life & Chemistry

Splice Variants Link Autism Genes in Groundbreaking Study

In their study, published in the April 11, 2014 online issue of Nature Communications, the scientists isolated hundreds of new variants of autism genes from…

Earth Sciences

Decoding Miocene Climate Paradox: Insights from AWI Researchers

Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have deciphered a supposed climate paradox from the Miocene…

Information Technology

Gigabit Wireless Communications: Key Insights from New Research

The two research papers, led by Andrew Nix, Professor of Wireless Communication Systems and Dr Simon Armour, Senior Lecturer in Software Radio, from the…

Environmental Conservation

Boreal Bird Decline in Adirondacks: Key Study Insights

The Adirondack Park represents the southern range extent for several species of boreal forest birds in eastern North America. Like any species at the edge of…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Engineer Cartilage for Nose Reconstruction

A research team from the University of Basel in Switzerland has reported that nasal reconstruction using engineered cartilage is possible. They used a method…

Life & Chemistry

Key Role of c-FLIPR in Immune System Balance Explained

As strange as it may seem, a process called “cellular suicide” is actually crucial for the survival of the entire body. A protein called c-FLIPR plays a key…

Life & Chemistry

The taming of the shrew – The bicoloured shrew is a health risk for horses

The Borna disease – named after the German city of Borna, which saw a cluster of cases over 100 years ago – mainly affects horses and sheep, and in rare cases…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies’ Hidden Bioluminescence Uncovered by Researchers

New research from scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that fruit flies are secretly harboring the biochemistry needed to glow in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Quantum Computing Breakthrough from Max Planck Institute

You better count on quantum information in the future. Physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching have developed a novel quantum…

Physics & Astronomy

New Evidence of Supersymmetry in Condensed Matter Systems

UC Santa Barbara physicist Tarun Grover has provided definitive mathematical evidence for supersymmetry in a condensed matter system. Sought after in the…

Information Technology

How Malicious Code Infects HTML5 Apps and Your Smartphone

Can you imagine that simply doing these things can get your smarphones infected with “worms” that can not only steal personal information from your phone, but…

Seminars Workshops

IWOTE’14 – 4th International Workshop on Thermal Forming and Welding Distorsion

The workshop was intended to promote the exchange of experience at international level and foster the dialogue between science and industry, related to the…

Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers Unveil Method to Detect Fine Touch Movements

Some of these cells are so incredibly sensitive that even Prof. Gary Lewin and Dr. Kate Poole, who have been studying the “mechanoreception” of the touch…

Health & Medicine

Chromium Supplements: Can They Lower Blood Sugar Levels?

Approximately 26 percent of the U.S. population has impaired fasting glucose, which is a predisposition for developing type 2 diabetes, and chromium…

Physics & Astronomy

Emerging research suggests a new paradigm for "unconventional superconductors"

The surprising result, reported in Nature Physics, suggests that the emergence of superconductivity in TiSe2 isn’t associated with the melting of a charge…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Research Reveals How Medium Affects Self-Assembling Particles

The building blocks that are meant to connect have complementary DNA sequences on their surfaces, ensuring only the correct pieces bind together as they jostle…

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