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Health, Qualifications, and Motivation: Key Factors for Wage-Earners

Health, qualifications and motivation are the crucial factors determining whether, as a consequence of demographic change, wage-earners can or should go on…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Programming Advances: Enhancing Predictive Modeling Insights

The doctoral thesis, Enhancing Genetic Programming for Predictive Modeling, is about machine learning, more specifically predictive modeling, a field of…

Studies and Analyses

Columbia Scientists Discover Key Cells in Touch Sensation

In a study published in the April 6 online edition of the journal Nature, a team of Columbia University Medical Center researchers led by Ellen Lumpkin, PhD,…

Health & Medicine

La Jolla Institute Uncovers New Immune Mechanism Against Cancer

A major discovery that brings a new drug target to the increasingly exciting landscape of cancer immunotherapy was published yesterday by researchers from La…

Earth Sciences

Ancient shrimp-like animals had 'modern' hearts and blood vessels

An international team of researchers from the University of Arizona, China and the United Kingdom has discovered the earliest known cardiovascular system, and…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into How Anti-Diabetic Drugs Work

Scientists thought they basically knew how the most common drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes worked, but a new study from the Florida campus of The Scripps…

Life & Chemistry

Green Tea Extract Enhances Cognitive Function, Study Finds

Now, researchers at the University of Basel are reporting first evidence that green tea extract enhances the cognitive functions, in particular the working…

Health & Medicine

Caffeine against Alzheimer's disease

As part of a German-French research project, a team led by Dr. Christa E. Müller from the University of Bonn and Dr. David Blum from the University of Lille…

Life & Chemistry

Loneliness Affects DNA Repair: Insights from Parrot Telomeres

They found that the telomere lengths of single parrots were shorter than those housed with a companion parrot, which supports the hypothesis that social stress…

Health & Medicine

Dark Chocolate Reduces Stress Reactivity in Humans

Research from the Universities of Bern and Zürich and the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) suggests that a single intake of half a bar of dark chocolate…

Materials Sciences

Nanoparticles Enhance Protein Detection for Cancer Research

Their composition from subunits can only be determined indirectly or with extreme time-effort. Scientists at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials are…

Life & Chemistry

Long Non-Coding RNAs: New Insights Into Their Conventional Roles

Then came the discovery of small RNAs that opened up whole new areas of research. Now researchers have come full circle and predicted that some long non-coding…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Next-Gen 2-D Materials: Molybdenum Disulfide Insights

One of these materials is molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which is part of a wider group of materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides, and has been put…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tiny Power Generator Uses Saliva for Energy Innovation

Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, Penn State, credited the idea to fellow researcher Justine E. Mink. “The…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Depression 05W's Bulk West of Center

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC noted that animated multispectral satellite imagery today, April 3, showed that the low-level circulation center is…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Dark Matter From Fermi Gamma-Ray Data

Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the…

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