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Medical Engineering

New MR Technique Analyzes Brain Tumor Response to Therapy

A new way of analyzing data acquired in MR imaging appears to be able to identify whether or not tumors are responding to anti-angiogenesis therapy,…

Technology Offerings

New Prophylactic Vaccine Targets Malignant Melanoma

Malignant Melanoma is the most rapidly increasing cancer in white populations with a doubling of rates every 10 years. Göttinger inventors identified in a…

Earth Sciences

Slow Earthquakes: A Key to Predicting Major Seismic Events

“We currently don't have any way to remotely monitor when land faults are about to move,” said Chris Marone, professor of geophysics. “This has the potential…

Materials Sciences

Assembling Big Structures with Interlocking Lightweight Blocks

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child's construction toy. The new…

Environmental Conservation

Mountaintop Mining Pollution Has Distinct Isotopic Fingerprint

The distinctive chemistries of sulfur, carbon and strontium provide scientists with new, more accurate ways to track pollution from mountaintop mining sites…

Physics & Astronomy

Cosmic Turbulences: How Stars and Black Holes Form

Just how stars and black holes in the Universe are able to form from rotating matter is one of the big questions of astrophysics. What we do know is that…

Physics & Astronomy

Voyager 1 Exits Solar System: New Study Insights

Carrying Earthly greetings on a gold plated phonograph record and still-operational scientific instruments – including the Low Energy Charged Particle detector…

Materials Sciences

ORNL Superconducting Wire Delivers Unmatched Performance

Applications for superconducting wires, which carry electricity without resistance when cooled to a critical temperature, include underground transmission…

Earth Sciences

UM Scientists Use New Approach to Reveal Function of Greenland’s Ice Sheet

The work was published in Science on Aug. 15 in a paper titled “Basal Drainage System Response to Increasing Surface Melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.”The bed…

Earth Sciences

Ex-Tropical Storm Utor Still Raining on Southern China

Typhoon Utor's eye made landfall around 0730 UTC/3:30 a.m. EDT on Aug. 14. On Aug. 15, Utor was still dropping rain over southern China.NASA's Terra satellite…

Life & Chemistry

New Cell Memory Mechanism Unveiled: Role of Transcription Factors

DNA binding proteins called transcription factors are required for maintaining cell identity. They ensure that daughter cells have the same function as their…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic ice core sheds new light on how the last ice age ended

Analysis of an ice core taken by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide drilling project reveals that warming in…

Studies and Analyses

Flavonoids in Celery and Artichokes Combat Pancreatic Cancer Cells

“Apigenin alone induced cell death in two aggressive human pancreatic cancer cell lines. But we received the best results when we pre-treated cancer cells with…

Life & Chemistry

UC Davis Identifies New Target for Brucellosis Treatment

Brucellosis, which affects about 500,000 people worldwide each year, typically is caused by ingestion of unsterilized milk or close contact with body…

Materials Sciences

Fuel Cell Innovation: Novel cathode materials for SOFC with high performance and strong reliability …

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Georgia Institute of Technology and Dong-Eui University have developed a novel…

Physics & Astronomy

Dwarf Galaxy Caught Ramming Into a Large Spiral

The hot gas cloud is likely caused by a collision between a dwarf galaxy and a much larger galaxy called NGC 1232. If confirmed, this discovery would mark the…

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