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New CU-Boulder-led study finds 'microbial clock' may help determine time of death

The clock is essentially the lock-step succession of bacterial changes that occur postmortem as bodies move through the decay process. And while the…

Earth Sciences

Late Cretaceous Period: Evidence of an Ice-Free Earth

For years, scientists have thought that a continental ice sheet formed during the Late Cretaceous Period more than 90 million years ago when the climate was…

Environmental Conservation

China's synthetic gas plants would be greenhouse giants

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants,…

Materials Sciences

New Multifunctional Topological Insulator Boosts Superconductivity

Superconductors are metals which can conduct current even without any resistance, although only far below room temperature. Semiconductors, the foundation of…

Transportation and Logistics

e-Genius: Exploring Battery-Powered Aircraft Innovations

The battery-powered electrical research aircraft e-Genius from the Institute for Aircraft Construction (IFB) at the University of Stuttgart was transported by…

Life & Chemistry

MicroRNA-31 Might Predict Lung-Cancer Spread

This study found that high levels of microRNA-31 indicate that the tumor has spread and signals a poor prognosis.The findings might lead to improved treatment…

Health & Medicine

Obesity Gene Linked to Increased Hip Fracture Risk

The study, undertaken by Dr Bich Tran and Professor Tuan Nguyen from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research, examined six gene variants (single…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra-fast Electrons Explain Third Radiation Ring Around Earth

Understanding the nature of these radiation belts and how they swell and shrink over time is an integral part of interpreting, and perhaps someday predicting,…

Environmental Conservation

Soil Microbes and Their Impact on Global Climate Change

The project aims to explain how microbe-driven processes influence climate change, and in what ways climate-driven changes, such as changes in soil chemistry…

Physics & Astronomy

A unique glance into the Sun’s atmosphere

Three months after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in…

Health & Medicine

Abiraterone Acetate Enhances Quality of Life in Prostate Cancer

The study, published Sept. 24 in Lancet Oncology, was led by Ethan Basch, MD, director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at the University of North…

Health & Medicine

Discover How Gut Villi Developed in Human Evolution

“You are not just a ball of cells,” says Clifford Tabin, George Jacob and Jacqueline Hazel Leder Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School (HMS).The way…

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…

Technology Offerings

TuSaLoc – Position monitoring for respiratory tube

An intubation in an emergency it can easily lead to an incorrect position of the tube. Also, the tube can move unnoticed during transport of the patient, which…

Process Engineering

Innovative Thin Glass Circuit Boards for Enhanced Miniaturization

However, miniaturization and extreme stress are pushing the limits of printed circuit boards (PCB) made of epoxy-resin, glass-fiber fabrics (FR4) and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Stanford scientists publish theory, formula to improve 'plastic' semiconductors

Anyone who's stuffed a smart phone in their back pocket would appreciate the convenience of electronic devices that could bend. Flexible electronics could…

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