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Life & Chemistry

Pathogenic plant virus jumps to honeybees

The routine screening of bees for frequent and rare viruses “resulted in the serendipitous detection of Tobacco Ringspot Virus, or TRSV, and prompted an…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Virginia Tech researcher develops energy-dense sugar battery

A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional…

Awards Funding

Munich Researcher Secures €2M for Dementia Innovation

This award goes to young researchers whose projects are breaking new scientific ground. Edbauer will be using this financial support to investigate brain…

Health & Medicine

Integrating Health and Environment: A Sustainable Diet Approach

Diet-related diseases account for a large portion of health-care costs in Switzerland, namely around CHF 20 billion per year. Even though many know full well…

Life & Chemistry

New Sea Anemone Species Discovered in Antarctica

For b-roll of this discovery, please contact Dena Headlee at (703) 292-7739 or dheadlee@nsf.gov. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers from the…

Physics & Astronomy

Efficient Terahertz Radiation from Metamaterials Unveiled

The discovery may help develop noninvasive imaging and sensing, and make possible THz-speed information communication, processing and storage. The results…

Health & Medicine

Melatonin’s Potential Role in Reducing Prostate Cancer Risk

Melatonin is a hormone that is produced exclusively at night in the dark and is an important output of the circadian rhythm, or the body's inherent 24-hour…

Environmental Conservation

Guide to Protecting Whales During Seismic Surveys

A step-by-step guide to reducing impacts on whales and other marine species during seismic sea floor surveys has been developed by experts with IUCN's Western…

Environmental Conservation

Pesticide Exposure Linked to Smaller Worker Bees, Study Finds

The research, published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology, reveals that prolonged exposure to a pyrethroid pesticide, which is used on flowering crops to…

Life & Chemistry

Splicing Protein Overexpression Linked to Skin Cancer Changes

“It has been noted that cancer resembles a state of chronic wound healing, in which the wound-healing program is erroneously activated and perpetuated,” says…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Swiss Government, University of Bern Launch Animal Health Center

The former Institute of Veterinary Virology of the Vetsuisse Faculty at the University of Bern was integrated into the Federal Institute of Virology and…

Health & Medicine

New Cellular Pathway Discovered in Gaucher Disease Treatment

Now, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a new cellular pathway implicated in Gaucher disease. Their findings, published today in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT’s Solar-Power Device Boosts Efficiency Using Heat

A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose…

Earth Sciences

Extreme El Niño Events: Preparing for More Heat Waves

Extreme weather events fuelled by unusually strong El Ninos, such as the 1983 heatwave that led to the Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia, are likely to…

Health & Medicine

How Chocolate, Tea, and Berries May Lower Diabetes Risk

Findings published today in the Journal of Nutrition reveal that high intakes of these dietary compounds are associated with lower insulin resistance and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhancing E-Mobility: Innovative Strategies for Market Entry

How can companies break into the electromobility market faster and more effectively? In what way can innovative services help to focus electromobility…

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