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Physics & Astronomy

NASA Study Shows Disks Don't Need Planets to Make Patterns

These debris disks often show sharply defined rings or spiral patterns, features that could signal the presence of orbiting planets. Astronomers study the disk…

Studies and Analyses

New Research: Helmet Type Doesn’t Lower Concussion Risk

“According to our research, lower risks of sustaining a sports-related concussion (SRC) and its severity were not improved based on a specific manufacturer. In…

Health & Medicine

Knee Cartilage Repair Technique Boosts Patient Outcomes

“The results at this time are encouraging,” said lead author of the study Scott Rodeo, M.D., orthopedic surgeon and co-chief of the sports medicine and…

Health & Medicine

Undiagnosed pre-diabetes highly prevalent in early Alzheimer's disease study

Turner's study examines resveratrol, a compound found in red grapes and red wine, to see if it might change glucose levels in patients with mild to moderate…

Life & Chemistry

Boldly illuminating biology's 'dark matter'

The biological equivalent is “microbial dark matter,” that pervasive yet practically invisible infrastructure of life on the planet, which can have profound…

Health & Medicine

DNA Abnormalities Linked to Cancer Risk in Type 2 Diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes are already known to have a higher risk of cancers, especially blood cancers like lymphoma and leukaemia. The new study, led by…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Monitoring Ice Sheets: Key to Predicting Sea-Level Rise

The ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland contain about 99.5 per cent of the Earth's glacier ice which would raise global sea level by some 63m if it…

Life & Chemistry

Key step in molecular 'dance' that duplicates DNA deciphered

Building on earlier work exploring the complex choreography by which intricate cellular proteins interact with and copy DNA prior to cell division, scientists…

Environmental Conservation

Blue I Water Technologies completes global patenting for PRIZMA, a test strip-based water analyzer and dosing system for …

Advanced water analyzer technology expands its global IP protection with Canadian patentBlue I Water Technologies, a prominent global provider of smart and…

Physics & Astronomy

Imaging Electron Pairing in Magnetic Superconductors

In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department…

Earth Sciences

Corn syrup model splits Yellowstone's mantle plume in 2

The controversy surrounds a unique relationship between a mantle plume (like the one that powers Hawaiian volcanoes) and the subduction zone off the…

Earth Sciences

Some volcanoes 'scream' at ever-higher pitches until they blow their tops

A new analysis of an eruption sequence at Alaska's Redoubt Volcano in March 2009 shows that the harmonic tremor glided to substantially higher frequencies and…

Health & Medicine

APOBEC3B Enzyme Linked to Multiple Cancer Types, Study Finds

The discovery, reported in the July 14 issue of Nature Genetics, follows the team's earlier finding that the enzyme, called APOBEC3B, is responsible for more…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover Kill-Switch for Immune-Suppressing Cells

The discovery of the cell death processes that determine the number of 'regulatory T cells' an individual has could one day lead to better treatments for…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Uncover 14,000-Year-Old Ocean Life Mystery

Researchers have hypothesized that iron sparked this surge of ocean life, but a new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists and…

Life & Chemistry

Carnegie Mellon’s Artificial Cells Study Molecular Crowding

The interior of a living cell is a crowded place, with proteins and other macromolecules packed tightly together. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon…

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