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NASA Sees Rainfall from System 94S Over Australia's Arnhem Region

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured the rainfall rates occurring in System…

Business and Finance

New Patent Mapping System Reveals Innovation Pathways

To help answer those questions, researchers, policy-makers and R&D directors study patent maps, which provide a visual representation of where universities,…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Protein Transport: Insights into Structural Innovation

After protein production, many proteins are equipped with attachments such as sugar residues in order to perform their tasks properly. This process is directly…

Awards Funding

Fly Eye Captures Top Prize in Scientific Imaging Contest

Karin Panser is a member of Andrew Straw’s group at the IMP Vienna. The team addresses the fundamental question of how the brain of a fruit fly functions. ‘We…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone Colin Coming "Unwound"

On January 14, 2014 at 0900 UTC, Colin had maximum sustained winds near 40 knots/46.0 mph/74.0 kph. It was far from land, and centered 1,171 nautical…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Syringe: Key to Marine Animal Development Insights

Those bacteria, nestled in a supportive extracellular matrix, form bacterial biofilms—often slimy substances that cling to wet surfaces. For some marine…

Life & Chemistry

Key Molecular Links Between Circadian Rhythms and Cell Division

The researchers in the UC College of Medicine Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, led by Christian Hong, PhD, published their findings Monday,…

Studies and Analyses

Wild sparrow study traces social behaviors in the field to specific gene

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is publishing the results of the experiments, conducted by the lab of neuroscientist Donna Maney in…

Life & Chemistry

Walden Trees Leafing Out Far Earlier Than in Thoreau’s Time

Climate-change studies by Boston University biologists show leaf-out times of trees and shrubs at Walden Pond are an average of 18 days earlier than when Henry…

Life & Chemistry

Cobalt Catalysts Streamline Photosynthesis for Cleaner Fuels

Currently, the most efficient methods we have for making fuel – principally, hydrogen – from sunlight and water involve rare and expensive metal catalysts,…

Environmental Conservation

Algae Species Shift Reveals Climate Change Impact Over Time

A study of marine life in the temperate coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean shows a reversal of competitive dominance among species of algae,…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Costs Outweigh Bioenergy Demand in Food Markets

Though this does not come without risks, global food markets would be affected much more by unmitigated climate change than by an increased bioenergy demand, a…

Materials Sciences

Enhancing Medical Imaging Through Plasmonic Nanostructures

“Applications in imaging and sensing typically involve the emission of light at a different wavelength than the excitation, or ‘secondary light emission’. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Weighing Particles at the Attogram Scale: New Insights

The system builds on a technology previously developed by Scott Manalis, an MIT professor of biological and mechanical engineering, to weigh larger particles,…

Health & Medicine

Key Proteins Found for Heart’s Electrical Communication

Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found that six proteins – five more than previously thought – are responsible for cell-to-cell communication that…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Infrared Satellite Imagery Shows Wind Shear Affecting Cyclone Ian

On January 13 at 0900 UTC/4 a.m. EST, Tropical Cyclone Ian's maximum sustained winds were near 65 knots/74.8 mph/120.4 kph, just at hurricane-strength. Just a…

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