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Facts About Low-Calorie Sweeteners

Low-calorie sweeteners (also referred to as alternative sweeteners, non-nutritive sweeteners, intense sweeteners, or sugar substitutes) are used in foods and…

Environmental Conservation

World Ocean Systems Undermined by Climate Change by 2100

An ambitious new study that includes Lisa Levin of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego describes the full chain of events by which ocean…

Life & Chemistry

Milk-Maker Hormone May Help Liver Regenerate

The hormone prolactin is probably best known for its role in stimulating milk production in mothers after giving birth. But prolactin also has an important…

Health & Medicine

6 Foods That May Help Win the Blood Pressure Battle

Grape Seed Extract:Results from a study of 32 pre-hypertensive adult subjects showed that a patented grape seed extract may help to lower both systolic and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Micro Water Sensor Can Aid Growers

Now, Cornell University researchers have developed a microfluidic water sensor within a fingertip-sized silicon chip that is a hundred times more sensitive…

Earth Sciences

Computer Models of Tornadoes Show Possible Sheltering Region Behind Hills

Using 3-D computer models, University of Arkansas researchers have demonstrated the influence of hills on tornadoes. Their models revealed that the height of a…

Earth Sciences

Extinct 'Mega Claw' Creature Had Spider-Like Brain

The find suggests that the ancestors of chelicerates – spiders, scorpions and their kin – branched off from the family tree of other arthropods – including…

Studies and Analyses

Hardening Arteries Linked to Brain Plaques in Elderly Study

“This is more evidence that cardiovascular health leads to a healthy brain,” said study author Timothy M. Hughes, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.The…

Earth Sciences

Curiosity Rover Unveils Origins of Martian Meteorites

A key new measurement of Mars’ atmosphere by NASA’s Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the…

Studies and Analyses

US Teens Face Rising HSV-1 Infection Risk for Genital Herpes

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and available online, the findings show that fewer of today's teens have been exposed in their childhood to…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Hope: New Advances for Locked-In Syndrome Patients

A team of researchers from Montreal has found that stroke patients living with Locked-In Syndrome (LIS) who cannot move, swallow or even breathe on their own,…

Environmental Conservation

50 Ideas for Building Sustainable Cities Today

Since May 2012, ten Fraunhofer Institutes and numerous industrial, commercial and municipal partners have been working together to develop concepts for clean,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Laser Techniques Reveal Molecule Heartbeats

A team of scientists around Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch and Dr. Nathalie Picqué at the Laser Spectroscopy Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Visualizes Viral DNA in Cells Effectively

They have developed a new method to generate virus particles containing labeled viral DNA genomes. This allowed them to visualize, for the first time, single…

Event News

Call for Abstracts: International Conference "Resilience in Urban and Regional Development”

In the last decade the concept of urban and regional resilience has been much discussed and has been further developed in many areas. Today academics,…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Back Pain: Insights and Innovations

According to the statistics, only 20% of the population in industrialised countries maintain that they have never experienced back pain. The majority of people…

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