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Earth Sciences

Back to the future: Scientists look into Earth's "Deep Time" to predict future effects of climate change

Climate change alters the way in which species interact with one another–a reality that applies not just to today or to the future, but also to the past,…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Repair Technique Advances Regenerative Medicine

Writing yesterday (Monday, Aug. 12, 2013) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team reports that the novel technique is much simpler…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Optically Levitate a Glowing, Nanoscale Diamond

In a paper published this week in Optics Letters, they describe how they used a laser to trap nanodiamonds in space, and – using another laser – caused the…

Studies and Analyses

A man's occupation linked to time spent on housework, study finds

New research by University of Notre Dame Sociologist Elizabeth Aura McClintock shows that when married or cohabiting men are employed in heavily female…

Studies and Analyses

Truck Drivers’ Response to Speed and Flexibility Demands

Snyder, a graduate sociology student in the University of Virginia's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, will present his paper, “The Professionalized Body:…

Life & Chemistry

MRSA Strain Origin: Cattle to Humans Explained

The researchers who conducted the genetic analysis of strains of Staphylococcus aureus known as CC97 say these strains developed resistance to methicillin…

Life & Chemistry

Emerging Canine Distemper Virus Threatens Rare Amur Tigers

Pressure from poaching, decimation of their prey base, and habitat fragmentation have diminished the population of Amur tigers (also called Siberian tigers) to…

Health & Medicine

DHA-enriched formula in infancy linked to positive cognitive outcomes in childhood

Specifically, the children showed accelerated development on detailed tasks involving pattern discrimination, rule-learning and inhibition between the ages of…

Life & Chemistry

Additional space for drug research in Saarbrücken, Germany

Common press release of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and the Saarland University Infection research meets pharmacy: At the HIPS approximately…

Life & Chemistry

Neandertals Crafted Europe’s First Specialized Bone Tools

Two research teams from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands have…

Studies and Analyses

People prefer products that help them 'save face' in embarrassing moments

“Previous research on embarrassment mainly documents that embarrassed individuals are motivated to avoid public exposure,” explains Ping Dong, a doctoral…

Life & Chemistry

Nightingale Communication: Older Males Trill More Effectively

These findings were published by researchers at the University of Basel and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in the online edition of «Journal of Avian…

Machine Engineering

High-Speed Torque Limiting Clutches for Test Stands

Besides the “EAS-HSC”, the “EAS-HSE” (High-Speed Elements) now transmits significantly higher speeds – as a special version, even up to 20,000 rpm. This clutch…

Life & Chemistry

How “Teamwork” between Egg and Sperm Works

Researchers from Heidelberg have decoded a previously unknown molecular mechanism in the fertilisation process of vertebrates. The team of scientists at the…

Life & Chemistry

New AWI Research Ship MYA II to Be Commissioned in Schleswig-Holstein

Prof. Dr. Waltraud Wende, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister for Education and Research, is going to be present at the event, as well as representatives of the…

Materials Sciences

SU Chemists Develop ‘Fresh, New’ Approach to Making Alloy Nanomaterials

Chemists in The College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to synthesize nanomaterials with stainless steel-like interfaces. Their discovery may change…

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