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U-2 Pilots Face Higher Brain Lesion Risks, Study Reveals

For the study, 102 U-2 United States Air Force pilots and 91 non-pilots between the ages of 26 and 50 underwent MRI brain scans. The scans measured the amount…

Studies and Analyses

3-D Images Show Flame Retardants Can Mimic Estrogens in NIH Study

“We’re beginning to have a better understanding of flame retardants and their effect on human health. This particular study helps us literally see what…

Life & Chemistry

Untying Knots: New Insights Into Cancer Promotion

Now, a groundbreaking discovery by UC Davis graduate student Kateryna Feoktistova and Assistant Professor Christopher Fraser illuminates the way that the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Another New Central Pacific Tropical Cyclone

NOAA's GOES-West satellite imagery from Aug. 20 at 1200 UTC/8 a.m. EDT showed a rounded tropical depression about 1,310 miles/2,105 km west of Lihue, Hawaii. The GOES image was created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The GOES image shows the strongest thunderstorms around the depression's center….

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Trami and Monsoon Rains Causing Flooding in the Philippines

Tropical Storm Trami enhanced rainfall from the monsoon, and caused flooding in the northern Philippines, including Manila, the capital city. The northern…

Event News

Large Farm Management 2013: Know-how for large agricultural holdings

More than 500 participants are anticipated to attend the international conference ‘Large Farm Management: Organization and Strategy’ in Kiev, Ukraine, on 19…

Earth Sciences

Change of Venue for NASA's IceBridge Antarctic Operations

“Antarctica is a big place and there are many science targets for us to hit,” said Tom Wagner, cryosphere program scientist at NASA headquarters, Washington.This change comes after nearly a year of planning and collaboration between NASA and the National Science Foundation or NSF, to ensure that the station could support IceBridge's personnel, equipment and aircraft requirements….

Studies and Analyses

HIV/AIDS Burden Shifts: New Regions Demand Attention

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is changing in unexpected ways in countries around the world, showing that greater attention and financial investment may be needed in…

Business and Finance

Publication of Banks & Future 2013 trend survey

More than 460 banking experts took part in Fraunhofer IAO’s Banks & Future 2013 trend survey. According to the respondents, the biggest challenge stems from…

Physics & Astronomy

New theory points to ‘zombie vortices’ as key step in star formation

Reporting today (Tuesday, Aug. 20) in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team led by computational physicist Philip Marcus shows how variations in gas…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Spacecraft Capture an Earth Directed Coronal Mass Ejection

These particles cannot travel through the atmosphere to harm humans on Earth, but they can affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground.Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 570 miles per second, which is a fairly typical speed for CMEs….

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Link Between Alcohol Abuse and Eating Disorders

In the September issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, the researchers report that people with alcohol dependence may be more genetically…

Studies and Analyses

7.8 Million Young Adults Gain Coverage Through ACA

An estimated 7.8 million of the 15 million young adults who were enrolled in a parent's health plan last year likely would not have been eligible for this…

Event News

Justice from an interdisciplinary perspective

What is justice? According to which criteria do we judge whether something is just or unjust? What different concepts of justice are there? Which insights can…

Awards Funding

Ernst-Detlef Schulze receives Ernst Haeckel Prize of the European Ecological Federation

The award The European Ecological Federation (EEF), the umbrella organization of the ecological societies of Europe announced the Ernst Haeckel Prize for the…

Earth Sciences

How shale fracking led to an Ohio town's first 100 earthquakes

In December 2010, Northstar 1, a well built to pump wastewater produced by fracking in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, came online. In the year that…

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