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Life & Chemistry

Research Identifies Scent of Melanoma

In addition to detecting a unique odor signature associated with melanoma cells, the researchers also demonstrated that a nanotechnology-based sensor could…

Life & Chemistry

Dangerous E. coli Strains May Linger Longer in Water

Researchers from the University at Buffalo and Mercyhurst University reported these results online June 7 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Uncovers Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction

The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW…

Life & Chemistry

Nanosheets Accelerate Pollutant Degradation in Textile Waste

Waste from textile and paint industries often contains organic dyes such as methylene blue as pollutants. Photocatalysis is an efficient means of reducing such…

Life & Chemistry

IU Chemists Create Cyanostar: A New Star-Shaped Macromolecule

The molecule, which the researchers call cyanostar, was developed in the lab of Amar Flood, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College…

Earth Sciences

Global Cooling: A Crucial Counterpoint to Climate Change

The international study involving experts from the universities of Newcastle, UK, Cologne, Frankfurt and GEOMAR-Kiel, confirms the link between global cooling…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Translation Sites in the Human Genome Explained

While the general mechanism of translation has been understood for some time, protein synthesis can initiate by more than one mechanism. One of the least well…

Health & Medicine

Glucose Meters Improve Diabetes Control, New Research Shows

New York– Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will present several new studies at ENDO 2013, The Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting &…

Studies and Analyses

Insight Into Dutch Tobacco Industry: First-Ever Study Released

This study, the first of its kind in the Netherlands, will analyse some 700 documents released last week by the University of California’s Legacy Tobacco…

Studies and Analyses

Sibling Aggression: New Link to Poor Mental Health Revealed

Fights between siblings – from toy-snatching to clandestine whacks to being banished from the bedroom – are so common they're often dismissed as simply part of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Meet the Cat-Like Robot from EPFL’s Biorobotics Lab

Even though it doesn't have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat. Developed by EPFL's Biorobotics…

Business and Finance

Transparent Corporate Accounting: Insights on Cost of Capital

“Cost of Capital and Earnings Transparency,” (published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, April-May 2013) establishes that the transparency of a…

Studies and Analyses

New Brain Pathway Links Protein to Psychiatric Disorders

Researchers have discovered a pathway by which the brain controls a molecule critical to forming long-term memories and connected with bipolar disorder and…

Studies and Analyses

New Roadmap Enhances Energy Use in Chemical Industry

The IEA, ICCA and DECHEMA jointly released today their new roadmap that explores how the chemical industry can further amplify catalysis and other related…

Life & Chemistry

RUB researchers unmask Janus-faced nature of mechanical forces with the Jülich supercomputer

The harder you pull, the quicker it goes. At least, that used to be the rule in mechanochemistry, a method that researchers apply to set chemical reactions in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ceramic Transformer Reduces Power Supply Size by 80%

The new development allows power supply transformers to be reduced to one fifth of their current size so that the normally separate switched-mode power supply…

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