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Earth Sciences

Discover 200,000 Years of Environmental Change in Okinawa Trough

It is tesitfied that the continental shelf of the East China Sea was exposed and covered with the huge wetland and grassland ecosystems during the the last two…

Studies and Analyses

UTSW Study Reveals Origins of Brown Fat Cells for Weight Control

In particular, researchers sought to find out the origin of “brown” fat cells and whether humans can make more of them in order to burn extra calories – a…

Physics & Astronomy

Elementary Magnets Now Available in Convenient Double-Packs

Simulating solid state properties with precisely controlled quantum systems is an important goal of the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division at MPQ.Now the team…

Life & Chemistry

Timing Matters: Impact of Blooming on Plant Reproduction

Too early or too late blooming can have serious consequences for plants: It may reduce the crop of seeds and jeopardize the reproductive success of an entire…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Uncover a 'Transformer' Pulsar

In a feat that has never before been observed, the star readily shifts back and forth between two mutually exclusive styles of pulsed emission — one in…

Technology Offerings

SuBiCH – one step synthesis for Substituted Bisimide dyes via CH-activation

Perylene dyes are common industrial substances, which are used not only as printer or textile dyes, but also as active compounds in organic electronic devices…

Life & Chemistry

Chemical synthesis: A simple technique for highly functionalized compounds

This research is also described in the inaugural June issue of the Kanazawa University Research Bulletin:…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UNIST team reports a new family of non-precious high performance metal catalysts

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), and Brookhaven National Laboratory,…

Health & Medicine

Penn Medicine Researchers Harness the Immune System to Fight Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer ranks as the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, due to its resistance…

Studies and Analyses

Uphill Battle: Protecting the World’s Trees Amid Human Impact

By Christina Troelsen og Peter Bondo Christensen Human civilisation has had an impact on the world, and it continues to have an even greater impact. One of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NREL calculates emissions & costs of power plant cycling necessary for increased wind and solar

To accommodate higher amounts of wind and solar power on the electric grid, utilities must ramp down and ramp up or stop and start conventional generators more…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Unveil Densest Galaxy in Local Universe

That is about the density of a galaxy that was recently discovered by an international team of astronomers led by a Michigan State University faculty member.“This galaxy is more massive than any ultra-compact drawfs of comparable size,” said Jay Strader, MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy, “and is arguably the densest galaxy known in the local universe.”…

Awards Funding

Tracking neuronal wiring – Hermann Cuntz receives Bernstein Award 2013

The Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience 2013 is awarded to the Frankfurt scientist Hermann Cuntz for his research on the principles of neural…

Studies and Analyses

ICU Ventilation Linked to Mental Decline in Patients

At least 30 percent of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) suffer some form of mental dysfunction as reflected in anxiety, depression, and especially…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Amphibian Decline Linked to Glyphosate Use in Agriculture

Researchers from Trier University investigated if the worldwide amphibian decline possibly correlates with the increasing use of glyphosate in the agrarian…

Life & Chemistry

Iowa State Chemists Discover Key Protein for Plant Growth

Researchers say the discovery could one day lead to bigger harvests of biomass for renewable energy.Finding that binding target has been a major challenge for…

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