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Physics & Astronomy

Ancient Explosions Reveal New Class of Distant Supernovae

Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion…

Science Education

Trend Mining: Uncovering Insights for Science and Economy

“Science, economy and politics need reliable indicators for being informed about the current activities in research and for knowing where it goes to. This kind…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Sugar Beet Secrets: Insights from Global Researchers

An international team of researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG),…

Studies and Analyses

Complete Smoking Bans Boost Quit Rates and Cut Tobacco Use

Completely banning tobacco use inside the home – or more broadly in the whole city – measurably boosts the odds of smokers either cutting back or quitting…

Environmental Conservation

Catalina Island Bison Contraception Program: A Success Story

The wild bison roaming Catalina Island are a major attraction for the nearly 1 million tourists who visit the Channel Island's most popular destination every…

Health & Medicine

Sugar Uptake’s Impact on Breast Cancer Metabolism Insights

Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished…

Studies and Analyses

US Beef Trade Deal: Implications for EU Beef Production

The US and Canada are major beef producers and exporters and have an interest to export beef meat to the EU due to the higher beef price. But the existing…

Life & Chemistry

University of Minnesota Identifies New Anti-HIV Drug Target

Complete findings are printed in today's issue of the Journal of Virology.The compounds, known as ribonucleoside analogs 8-azaadenosine, formycin A,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU’s e-Balance Project: Boosting Energy Efficiency for a Cleaner Future

The challenge to overcome these problems became a key area of current and future research activities. The aim of the e-balance EU project is to improve the…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Provide Insights for Reversing Hair Loss

The lab of USC scientist Krzysztof Kobielak, MD, PhD has published a trio of papers in the journals Stem Cells and The Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Earth Sciences

Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination

As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. No rocks exist, however, that are older than about 3.8 billion years. A sedimentary rock section in…

Life & Chemistry

How Marine Snail Larvae Swim: New Biomechanics Study Insights

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Stony Brook University grew Atlantic slipper limpet larvae, which are slightly larger than…

Environmental Conservation

Big Data Insights: Top Carbon-Stocking Projects in Africa

One way to slow climate change is to increase the number of trees on Earth, as they, through photosynthesis, take up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide,…

Information Technology

15 Years of VR Innovations in Oil and Gas Visualization

At its annual meeting in December 2013, the VRGeo Consortium again came up with new breakthrough software and hardware solutions for interactive visualization…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Cutting Power Losses in High-Frequency Supply Units

High-frequency power supply units are used in almost every electronic device such as television sets, computers and monitors. In conventional devices, three to…

Medical Engineering

3D Technology Enhances Stroke Rehabilitation Insights

The results, which are reported in a doctoral thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, indicate that computerized motion analysis increases our knowledge of how…

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