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Reforestation Study Shows Trade-Offs Between Water, Carbon and Timbe

However, the advent of very large “super” cargo ships, now more than 20 percent of the ships at sea, has demanded change. The Panama Canal is being expanded to…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterium From Canadian High Arctic Offers Clues to Possible Life on Mars

The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by…

Materials Sciences

Stitching Defects Into World’s Thinnest Semiconductor

Through beautiful images of strikingly symmetric stars and triangles hundreds of microns across, they have uncovered key insights into the optical and…

Materials Sciences

New Insights Into Magnetic Skyrmions in Centrosymmetric Ferromagnets

Researchers using Lorentz electron microscopy have shown that magnetic skyrmions are spontaneously formed as nanomagnetic clusters in a ferromagnetic manganese…

Materials Sciences

Development of Coating Method that Accelerates Bonding with Bone by 3 Times

Dr. Masanori Kikuchi, Group Leader of the Bioceramics Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) and a research group at Tokyo Medical…

Materials Sciences

Formation of Functionalized Nanowires by Control of Self-Assembly Using Multiple Modified Amyloid Peptides

Prof. Sakaguchi and his team in Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University,jointly with MANA PI Prof. Kohei Uosaki and a research group from the…

Physics & Astronomy

Helicopter-Light-Beams: Advancing Quantum Optics Techniques

Storing light in a bottle is easier than one might think: Laser light can be coupled into an optical glass fiber in such a way that it does not travel along…

Health & Medicine

OHSU Research Uncovers New Strategy to Enhance HIV Vaccines

A new discovery at Oregon Health & Science University highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly…

Life & Chemistry

German-Israeli Study Reveals New Protein Disposal Insights

Researchers of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC), Germany, and the Technion, the Technical University of Israel in Haifa, have now discovered a new function of an…

Health & Medicine

Hormone Levels: Key to Understanding Women’s Mental Health

The results suggest a monthly window of opportunity that could potentially be targeted in efforts to prevent common mental health problems developing in women….

Studies and Analyses

Facial Recognition Technology Advances Under MSU Experts

In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a…

Life & Chemistry

First Drug Targets Identified for Childhood Tumor Disorder

Two mutations central to the development of infantile myofibromatosis (IM)—a disorder characterized by multiple tumors involving the skin, bone, and soft…

Studies and Analyses

Driving and Hands-Free Talking Increase Driver Errors

A pilot study by Yagesh Bhambhani, a professor in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, and his graduate student Mayank Rehani, showed that drivers who talk…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing Anaglyph Printing: New Insights for 3D Imaging

Anaglyph printing — think of the red-and-blue 3D glasses used to transform 2D images to 3D images in comics, magazines, books, and newspapers — came into…

Life & Chemistry

'Should I stay or should I go?' CSHL scientists link brain cell types to behavior

You are sitting on your couch flipping through TV channels trying to decide whether to stay put or get up for a snack. Such everyday decisions about whether to…

Earth Sciences

Climate researchers discover new rhythm for El Niño

A mystery, however, has remained despite decades of research: Why does El Niño always peak around Christmas and end quickly by February to April? Now there is…

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