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NASA Tracks Heavy Rainfall in Strengthening Tropical Storm Humberto

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM passed near Humberto on September 10, 2013 at 0147 UTC (9:47 p.m. Sept. 9) and collected data…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Resurrected Tropical Storm Gabrielle

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the resurrected Tropical Storm Gabrielle on Sept. 10 at 0559 UTC/1:59 a.m. EDT, hours before it regained strength as a…

Life & Chemistry

UAlberta Researchers Uncover Immune System’s Cell Killing Mechanism

Medical scientists at the University of Alberta have made a key discovery about how the immune system kills healthy cells while attacking infections. This…

Earth Sciences

ASU Scientists Discover Key Insights from Sutter’s Mill Meteorite

Scientists led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor in ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, found that the Sutter’s Mill meteorite, which…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Repair Breakthrough Could Enhance Cancer Treatments

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry researcher Mark Glover and his colleagues published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal, Structure (Cell Press),…

Physics & Astronomy

NAU Team Uncovers Hidden Comet Using Spitzer Telescope

The discovery resulted from an ongoing project led by researchers at Northern Arizona University using the Spitzer Space Telescope. Through a lot of focused…

Studies and Analyses

Medicaid Funds Nearly Half of U.S. Births: Key Insights

The new data will help researchers gauge the impact of health reform on maternal and child health, the authors say. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), some…

Health & Medicine

Shingles Symptoms Linked to Neuronal Short Circuits

The pain and itching associated with shingles and herpes may be due to the virus causing a “short circuit” in the nerve cells that reach the skin, Princeton…

Life & Chemistry

Common Drugs Show Promise Against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Treatment with two common drugs reduced viral replication and lung damage when given to monkeys infected with the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory…

Studies and Analyses

Innovative 'pay for performance' program improves patient outcomes

Paying doctors for how they perform specific medical procedures and examinations yields better health outcomes than the traditional “fee for service” model,…

Awards Funding

Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize: €100,000 for Brain Research

Aguzzi’s and Weissmann’s groundbreaking discoveries on the mechanisms underlying prion diseases have major implications for the understanding of other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The prize is awarded by the Piepenbrock Group and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). The award ceremony will be held in Berlin on September 24, 2013. This year the Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE prize has a special significance. It marks the company's 100th anniversary and therefore honors the two winners with 100,000 Euro. But…

Life & Chemistry

Chromosome Ends: Key to Understanding Cellular Aging

By studying processes that occur at the ends of chromosomes, a team of Heidelberg researchers has unravelled an important mechanism towards a better…

Life & Chemistry

Alzheimer's: newly identified protein pathology impairs RNA splicing

Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center have identified a previously unrecognized type of pathology in the…

Health & Medicine

New Insights: Multiple Sclerosis Originates in Unexpected Brain Areas

The search for the cause of multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that affects up to a half million people in the United States, has confounded…

Earth Sciences

Deep-Sea Waves Uncover Mechanism for Ocean Mixing

A University of Washington study for the first time recorded such a wave breaking in a key bottleneck for circulation in the world’s largest ocean. The study…

Machine Engineering

Telecontrol Innovations: New Processor for SIMATIC Controllers

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has developed a new communication processor for telecontrol applications based on Simatic S7-1200 controllers. Simatic…

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