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Largest Therapy Trial Shows Effective Psychotherapy for Anorexia

A large-scale study has now shown that adult women with anorexia whose disorder is not too severe can be treated successfully on an out-patient basis. Even…

Awards Funding

Best CT Images Unveiled in Siemens Healthcare Contest

This year, Siemens Healthcare held its third contest regarding outstanding results in clinical imaging in computed tomography. Starting today, members of the…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Discovers Biological Clock to Measure Human Tissue Age

Everyone grows older, but scientists don't really understand why. Now a UCLA study has uncovered a biological clock embedded in our genomes that may shed light…

Earth Sciences

How Ocean Currents Make the Northern Hemisphere Soggy

The Palmyra Atoll, at 6 degrees north, gets 175 inches of rain a year, while an equal distance on the opposite side of the equator gets only 45 inches….

Materials Sciences

Innovative Nanoparticle Arrangement Boosts Electrical Conductivity

Scientists at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials are exploring new routes to such coatings in “NanoSPEKT”, a project funded by the Federal Ministry…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Stem Cells Age: New Insights from Molecular Switch

The study is expected to help in the search for therapeutic strategies to slow or reverse the aging process, and possibly rejuvenate these critically important…

Health & Medicine

Gothenburg Leads EU Project to Cut Healthcare Costs

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred care have been given the task of coordinating a project to investigate how Europe’s…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Straw’s Hidden Potential: A Sustainable Energy Source for Homes

These were the conclusions of a study conducted by the TLL (Thueringian regional institute for agriculture), the DBFZ (German biomass research center) and the…

Life & Chemistry

'Random' cell movement is directed from within

Cell biologists at The Johns Hopkins University have teased apart two integral components of the machinery that causes cells to move. Their discovery shows…

Materials Sciences

Mixing Nanoparticles for Multifunctional Material Innovation

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a general approach for combining different types of nanoparticles…

Life & Chemistry

Cells' 'molecular muscles' help them sense and respond to their environments

A summary of the discovery, published online Oct. 20 in the journal Nature Materials, specifically sheds light on how forces outside of cells are translated…

Studies and Analyses

Clean living is a luxury wild animals can't afford, study suggests

A study of wild mice has shown that they prefer to sleep and eat near to used nesting material and droppings left by other mice. Choosing a safe place to sleep…

Studies and Analyses

Large-scale deep re-sequencing reveals cucumber's evolutionary enigma

In a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), BGI,…

Life & Chemistry

Neuron 'claws' in the brain enable flies to distinguish 1 scent from another

Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are using the fruit fly to discover how the brain integrates multiple signals to identify one unique smell….

Environmental Conservation

Study: Delayed Gratification Hinders Climate Cooperation Efforts

A study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change reveals that groups cooperate less for climate change mitigation when the rewards of cooperation…

Studies and Analyses

Consumer Motivations Behind Organic Food Purchases Explored

Predicting whether consumers will purchase organic or conventional food is a multimillion dollar gamble within the food sector. A novel paper by Washington…

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