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Death & disability from air pollution down 35 percent in the US

In fact, a new study by this BYU professor concludes that improvements in U.S. air quality since 1990 have sparked a 35 percent reduction in deaths and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cost-Effective Wetlands for Nutrient Removal in Bureau County

“In the areas we studied in Bureau County with small wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), it was much cheaper to do pollution control by installing just a few…

Life & Chemistry

Mitofusin 2: Key Protein in Neurodegeneration and Cancer

With this new function, Mitofusin 2 becomes a viable target to intervene in diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer.Each cell in an organism has a sensor…

Studies and Analyses

Earth’s Wobble: New Insights on Nitrogen for Marine Life

“Human activity has very different effects on the temperature of the upper and lower atmosphere, and a very different fingerprint from purely natural…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM Satellite and HS3 Mission Checking out Tropical Storm Humberto

NASA's Global Hawk 871 departed from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. today, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. EDT from Runway 04. This marked the…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Longevity: Key Factors for a Healthy Life

The recently concluded EU project of the 7th European Framework Program „Biomarkers of aging“/MARK-AGE determined the most relevant physiological factors of…

Life & Chemistry

Plastics from Renewables: Self-Breaking Implants for Kids

In this way, painful multiple operations – especially in children – can be avoided in the future. The “BRIC – BioResorbable Implants for Children” project,…

Physics & Astronomy

To Touch the Microcosmos

What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough that may usher in a new era in the…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Identify How Yersinia Spreads Within Infected Organs

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have identified how one type of bacteria,…

Life & Chemistry

Birds Appear to Lack Important Anti-Inflammatory Protein

From bird flu to the West Nile virus, bird diseases can have a vast impact on humans. Thus, understanding bird immune systems can help people in a variety of…

Life & Chemistry

Fragile X Protein’s Role in Breast Cancer Progression

The researchers demonstrated that FMRP acts as a master switch controlling the levels of several proteins involved in different stages of aggressive breast…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite animation gives flyby of Tropical Storm Ingrid's heavy rains

When NASA's TRMM satellite flew over Tropical Storm Ingrid on Sept. 16, it was drenching the Atlantic side in the Gulf of Mexico. On Sept. 16, Hurricane Ingrid…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite adds up Tropical Storm Manuel's amazing rainfall

Tropical storm Manuel may have dissipated, but the storm dropped very heavy rainfall along Mexico's Pacific coast where 21 people have been reported killed due…

Social Sciences

Driving Cessation Hinders Aging Adults’ Volunteer and Work Lives, Social Lives Don’t Immediately Suffer, MU Researchers Find

Now, University of Missouri researchers have studied how aging adults’ driving cessation influences their work and social lives. The researchers found that…

Physics & Astronomy

Proton's Weak Charge Determined for First Time

The results, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters, also include the determinations of the weak charge of the neutron, and of the up quark and…

Medical Engineering

Uncovering cancer's inner workings by capturing live images of growing tumors

Scientists seeking new ways to fight cancer often try to understand the subtle, often invisible, changes to DNA, proteins, cells, and tissue that alter the…

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