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Health & Medicine

Understanding Microbleeds’ Role in Brain Treatment Advances

As growing numbers of America’s baby boomers reach retirement, neuroscientists are expanding their efforts to understand and treat one of the leading health…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Threatens Soil Nutrients and Plant Production

That includes people living in Arizona, who may be in for a dustier future.The findings are presented in a study published in Nature that details how soil…

Materials Sciences

Go Ahead, Dunk Your Cell Phone in Salt Water

Barrier films, used in everything from food and drug packaging to consumer electronics and solar cells, help prevent your food from spoiling, help to preserve…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial policing: Why you’d better cooperate with your own family

Bacteria are unicellular organisms that may show surprising levels of sociality. They can coordinate their behavior and cooperatively build enzymes or defence…

Awards Funding

DuPont Plunkett Awards 2013: Flexitallic’s Flange Rescue Gaskets

Flexitallic, Cleckheaton/UK, with its Flange Rescue Gaskets (FRG), providing an unsurpassed maintenance solution for the chemical and oil & gas industries,…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic ‘Force Field’ Shields Giant Gas Cloud during Collision with Milky Way

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a…

Physics & Astronomy

New Dark Matter Detector Begins Data Collection 1.5Km Underground

They have set up the experiment to identify the nature of dark matter, an invisible substance that physicists believe is all around us, making up most of the…

Life & Chemistry

Research Confirms Bottom-Feeding Behavior of Humpback Whales

Now, scientists have confirmed that humpback whales in the southern Gulf of Maine are spending more feeding time on the ocean floor than in any of these other…

Earth Sciences

Upgrading Earthquake Early Warning Systems in California and Taiwan

Earthquake early warning systems may provide the public with crucial seconds to prepare for severe shaking. For California, a new study suggests upgrading…

Earth Sciences

NASA eyes a 'decoupled' Tropical Depression Raymond

When a Tropical Depression decouples, it means the layers of circulation in the atmosphere are no longer “stacked” on top of each other. NASA's Aqua satellite…

Studies and Analyses

Bacteria’s Role in Harvesting Rare Earth Metals Explained

Rare earths are among the most precious raw materials of all. These metals are used in mobile telephones, display screens and computers. And they are…

Environmental Conservation

Earthworms Invade New England

Beavers reshape landscapes with their dams. Wolves control elk populations. Sea otters protect kelp forests by eating sea urchins. These are what ecologists…

Architecture & Construction

‘Shakers’ Help Engineers Develop Inexpensive System for Testing Condition of Bridges

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a new and inexpensive system to test the structural condition of short- to medium-span…

Health & Medicine

Chinese Bats Likely Source of SARS Virus, Researchers Report

Scientists say they’ve produced “the clearest evidence yet” the SARS virus originated in Chinese horseshoe bats and that direct bat-to-human transmission is…

Materials Sciences

World’s First Success in In Situ Tracking of Electrochemical Reactions at Solid/Liquid Interfaces by Photoelectron Spectroscopy

National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Japan Science and Technology Agency A research group led by NIMS GREEN and JST, in collaboration with WPI-MANA…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Krosa Approaches Philippines: PAGASA Alerts

Several warnings have been issued by PAGASA for areas of the Philippines. Signal No. 2 is in effect for area in Luzon. Signal 2 means winds of 37.2 to 62…

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