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Life & Chemistry

New Antiviral Compounds Identified by Brookhaven Scientists

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified two promising candidates for the development of drugs against…

Life & Chemistry

Metastatic Tumors: How Cancer Cells Travel to Distant Organs

Their study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, may answer the question of how cancer cells travel from the primary tumor's site of origin to distant organs…

Environmental Conservation

Forensic Biologist Uncovers New Fly Species in Indiana

The local discovery of a species of fly not native to the Midwest could have significant implications on forensic investigations involving decomposing remains,…

Life & Chemistry

New Catalyst Reduces Hydrogen Fuel Production Costs

Theoretically, hydrogen is the ultimate non-carbon, non-polluting fuel for storing intermittent energy from the wind or sun. When burned for energy, hydrogen…

Health & Medicine

Curcumin may protect premature infants' lungs

Turmeric, a key ingredient in spicy curry dishes, has long been known to have medicinal values. Now new research finds a substance in turmeric, curcumin, may…

Health & Medicine

Low-Cost, Nano Test Strips for Drinking Water Tests

Today the National Academy of Sciences announced a three-year, $271,930 grant to chemist Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to develop,…

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Environmental Conservation

South Sudan Expands Efforts to Protect Remaining Elephants

In late May and early June, participants from WCS and MWCT succeeded in collaring elephants to track and monitor the majority of South Sudan’s remaining…

Physics & Astronomy

Coronal Mass Ejection Headed Toward Mercury and Venus

Experimental NASA research models based on NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory show that the CME was not Earth-directed and it left the sun at…

Physics & Astronomy

OU Physicists Outline Next-Gen Particle Collider Vision

The discovery of the Higgs boson at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland this past year prompted particle physicists to look ahead to the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Early Galaxies from ESO and Hubble Studies

Using new detailed studies carried out with the ESO Very Large Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers, including members from the Niels Bohr…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Tweezers Enhance Precision Control of Enzymes

In new research, Hao Yan and his colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute describe a pair of tweezers shrunk down to an astonishingly tiny…

Studies and Analyses

Single Men, Smokers at Higher Risk for Oral Human Papillomavirus Infection, Moffitt Cancer Center Study Shows

The study results appeared in the July issue of The Lancet.HPV infection is known to cause virtually all cervical cancers, most anal cancers and some genital…

Health & Medicine

Quitting Smoking Reduces Heart Disease Risk in Older Women

Her findings, “Smoking Cessation, Weight Change and Coronary Heart Disease Among Postmenopausal Women With and Without Diabetes,” were published this week in…

Physics & Astronomy

Cloud Behavior Expands Habitable Zone of Alien Planets

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University based their study, which appears in Astrophysical Journal Letters, on rigorous computer…

Health & Medicine

Smart Anticancer "Nanofiber Mesh"

Success in Inducing Natural Death of Epithelial Cancer Cells by Simultaneously Realizing Thermotherapy and Chemotherapy A research team headed by Dr. Mitsuhiro…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New cheaper, more durable catalyst for electric vehicles

This research work was published on June 25, in the journal Nature Communications.The research team developed an inexpensive and scalable bio-inspired…

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