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Environmental Conservation

Coral Reefs Vanish: Impact on Marine Food Webs Ahead

If history’s closest analog is any indication, the look of the oceans will change drastically in the future as the coming greenhouse world alters marine food…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Unlock New Insights in Protein Recycling Process

Researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and from the MPI Dortmund have for the first time successfully reproduced the recycling process of proteins…

Earth Sciences

Montreal Protocol: Ozone Treaty’s Climate Gains Revealed

The 1987 Montreal Protocol phased out the use of chloroflourocarbons, or CFCs, a class of chemicals that destroy ozone in the stratosphere, allowing more…

Health & Medicine

Stem Cells in Gum Tissue Combat Inflammatory Diseases

The cells featured in the study are gingival mesenchymal stem cells (GMSC), which are found in the gingiva, or gum tissue, within the mouth. GMSC, like other…

Environmental Conservation

Seafood Menus Reflect Long-term Ocean Changes

The scientists are using the menus as part of a larger project to fill a 45-year gap in official records of wild fish populations in the state’s ocean waters…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Public-Supply Wells’ Vulnerability to Contamination

About one-third of the U.S. population gets their drinking water from public-supply wells.”Improving the understanding of the vulnerability of public-supply…

Earth Sciences

Big ice may explain Mars’ double-layer craters

Geologists from Brown University have developed a promising new explanation for a mysterious type of crater on the surface on Mars.Double-layered ejecta…

Studies and Analyses

Young vs. Old: Consistency in Performance Uncovered

Florian Schmiedek, Martin Lövdén, and Ulman Lindenberger examined these questions using data from the COGITO Study, an investigation conducted at the Max…

Studies and Analyses

New Method Boosts RNA Treatment Potency at Scripps Florida

Scientists from the Jupiter campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown a novel way to dramatically raise the potency of drug candidates…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Mercury Cleanup Challenges From ORNL Research

Earlier this year, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered two key genes that are essential for microbes to convert…

Physics & Astronomy

The Molecule “Scanner”

Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of Pittsburgh…

Health & Medicine

Synergy of Cancer Proteins Offers Hope for Personalized Therapy

Having the means to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from currently available cancer drugs not only reduces substantially the healthcare cost…

Materials Sciences

Interface Superconductivity Withstands Variations in Atomic Configuration

Warmed beyond those frigid conditions, the materials cross a critical temperature threshold and the superconductivity breaks down. But high-temperature…

Health & Medicine

Mechanism offers promising new approach for harnessing the immune system to fight cancer

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have discovered a way to target the immune system to shrink or eliminate tumors in mice without causing…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Finds 'Smoking Gun' After Gamma-Ray Burst

The definitive evidence came from Hubble observations in near-infrared light of the fading fireball produced in the aftermath of a short gamma-ray burst (GRB)….

Life & Chemistry

Salk Scientists Enhance Protein Engineering with New Bond

Proteins are the workhorses of cells, adopting conformations that allow them to set off chemical reactions, send signals and transport materials. But when a…

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