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Environmental Conservation

Agricultural fires across Sierra Leone

Most fires in this region are deliberately set for a variety of reasons, including slash and burn agriculture.

Life & Chemistry

Sensing Gravity with Acid: Scientists Discover a Role for Protons in Neurotransmission

The team, led by the late MBL senior scientist Stephen M. Highstein, discovered that sensory cells in the inner ear continuously transmit information on…

Environmental Conservation

SU Biologists Use Sound to Identify Breeding Grounds of Endangered Whales

Remote acoustic monitoring among endangered whales is the subject of a major article by two doctoral students in The College of Arts and Sciences.

Studies and Analyses

Salamanders shrinking due to climate change

That’s the key finding of a new study co-authored by a Clemson University biologist and published Tuesday in the journal Global Change Biology that examined…

Materials Sciences

Nanotube coating helps shrink mass spectrometers

Researchers found that when paper used to collect a sample was coated with carbon nanotubes, the voltage required was 1,000 times reduced, the signal was…

Health & Medicine

Model predicts blood glucose levels 30 minutes later

“Many people with type 1 diabetes use continuous glucose monitors, which examine the fluid underneath the skin,” said Peter Molenaar, Distinguished Professor…

Life & Chemistry

Robotic Arm Advances 3D Object Chemistry Through Mass Spectrometry

When life on Earth was first getting started, simple molecules bonded together into the precursors of modern genetic material. A catalyst would have been…

Health & Medicine

Genetic Variants Linked to Bladder Cancer Recurrence Risk

 A new study published in BJU International indicates that inheriting certain DNA sequences can affect a patient's prognosis. The findings may help physicians…

Life & Chemistry

Coronin 1 Protein Deficiency Linked to Learning Deficits

Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, together with an international team of scientists, has uncovered an important role for the protein…

Communications Media

University of Konstanz Rejects Elsevier’s Rising Costs

Due to the significant increase in the cost of services provided by the science publisher Elsevier in recent years, the University of Konstanz has decided not…

Corporate News

Siemens Invests EUR190M in Offshore Wind Factory in Britain

Siemens is investing more than EUR190 million (GBP160 million) in new offshore production facilities in Great Britain. Production of rotor blades for offshore…

Physics & Astronomy

Astrophysicists Uncover Secrets of Powerful Particles

University of Chicago astrophysicist Angela Olinto is helping to unravel that stubborn riddle by leading the United States collaboration on an international…

Environmental Conservation

Seal Teeth Offer Glimpse Into the Environmental Past of Russia's Lake Baikal

March 21 marks World Water Day—and a fitting time to consider one of the most unique mammals in the Earth’s waters.

Life & Chemistry

Californium Study Could Transform Radioactive Waste Management

The element is called californium — Cf if you’re looking at the Periodic Table of Elements — and it’s what Florida State Professor Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, the…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Auxin Signaling Unraveled by Scientists

Wikipedia lists 65 adjectives that botanists use to describe the shapes of plant leaves. In English (rather than Latin) they mean the leaf is lance-shaped,…

Earth Sciences

UA Scientists Assess New Environmental Flow for Colorado Delta

The pulse flow of water into the dry lower reaches of the Colorado River began Sunday. 

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