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High Estrogen and Diabetes Linked to Increased Dementia Risk

Blood estrogens were measured in women free of dementia aged 65 or older. After a four-year follow-up, 543 women who did not have dementia were compared with…

Environmental Conservation

EU-funded project SUSMILK – »Green Dairy«

Under the leadership of Fraunhofer UMSICHT, 212 project partners are developing components that contribute to the sustainable processing of milk and a redesign…

Studies and Analyses

Measuring Effectiveness of Asian Carp Prevention Barriers

“Our study goes beyond just presenting barrier options by putting numbers to how effective various barriers will be, including hydrologic separation and the…

Physics & Astronomy

Asteroid Diversity Reveals “Snow Globe” Solar System Insights

However, the true history of the solar system is more riotous. Giant planets migrated in and out, tossing interplanetary flotsam and jetsam far and wide. New…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Sediment Transport: Innovations in River Modeling

The largest flume is a 12-meter tilting version that can model many river conditions; another flume models the languid process of a nearly flat river bed…

Life & Chemistry

Screening Human MSCs for Tumorigenic Potential in Trials

Currently, MSCs are being widely investigated as a potential treatment for various diseases. According to ClinicalTrials.gov, over 350 clinical trials using…

Trade Fair News

Boosting Eastern European Agriculture for Global Food Security

Russia and Ukraine are among the largest grain exporters worldwide. At the same time, both countries have considerable potential to increase their agricultural…

Studies and Analyses

Molecular Insights Into Invasive Bladder Cancer Treatment

The once sketchy landscape of the molecular defects behind bladder cancer now resembles a road map to new, targeted treatments thanks to the unified efforts of…

Health & Medicine

Early Detection: New Blood Test for Oral, Prostate, Breast Cancer

For this, it is essential to provide tests that allow early detection of cancer without the need of a tissue sample, and thus drastically improve the prognosis…

Awards Funding

Funding Boost for Life Science Research in Vienna

Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) are in high demand among scientists. Securing one of them means that a project receives between 1.5 and 2.5…

Earth Sciences

Escalating Sea Level Variations Along Gulf Coast: New Study Revealed

Now, a new study shows that, from the Florida Keys to southern Alabama, those fluctuations have been intensifying over the past 20 years. Summer peaks have…

Health & Medicine

Potential Treatment Discovered for Enterovirus 71 in Children

The virus, called enterovirus 71 (EV71), causes yearly outbreaks of hand, foot, and mouth disease in Southeast Asian countries including China and Malaysia….

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Flexible Molybdenum Disulfide Electrodes Boost Sodium Ion Batteries

Gurpreet Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering, and his student researchers are the first to demonstrate that a composite paper –…

Interdisciplinary Research

Uni Stuttgart, Linden-Museum Explore Museum Acoustics

Whether a museum is capable of conveying a topic successfully also depends on how the visitors feel in the museum rooms. An important but to date less…

Earth Sciences

Dinosaur fossils from China help Penn researchers describe new 'Titan'

The species, a plant-eating sauropod named Yongjinglong datangi, roamed during the Early Cretaceous period, more than 100 million years ago. This sauropod…

Studies and Analyses

Impact of Corporate Downsizing on Managerial Diversity

“It seems that the more individualized process of evaluating each worker on his or her merits — rather than using blanket criteria such as position or tenure —…

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