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Environmental Conservation

Fishing Gear’s Hidden Threat: Impact on North Atlantic Whales

The scientists in this entanglement response suction-cupped a cellphone-size device called a Dtag to a two-year-old female North Atlantic right whale called Eg…

Health & Medicine

Biodegradable Stent Matches Drug-Eluting Performance

The Orsiro stent, which is a novel stent platform eluting sirolimus from a biodegradable polymer, demonstrated non-inferiority to the Xience Prime…

Health & Medicine

Plastic Additives Linked To High Blood Pressure In Youth

Plastic additives known as phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) are odorless, colorless and just about everywhere: They turn up in flooring, plastic cups, beach…

Materials Sciences

Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a…

Earth Sciences

Amazon River Exhales Virtually All Carbon Taken Up by Rain Forest

Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research…

Physics & Astronomy

“Out of This World” Space Stethoscope Valuable on Earth, Too

Space is serene, because no air means no sound. But inside the average spacecraft, with its whirring fans, humming computers and buzzing instruments, is about…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Not Just Blowing in the Wind: Compressing Air for Renewable Energy Storage

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration identified two unique methods for this…

Awards Funding

Max Delbrück Medal for US Stem Cell Pioneer Professor Irving Weissman

Stem cells are rare cells in the body which have the capacity to self-renew and to develop into multiple types of differentiated cells. Professor Weissman`s…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough Oral Vaccine Targets Diarrhea in Children

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million…

Statistics

Higher Education Spending Surges to €44 Billion in 2011

As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was 6.1% more than in 2010 (Euro 41.2 billion).The rise in expenditure is due to a large number…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery of 14 Related Crocodile Species from 5 Million Years Ago

Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have found evidence of an abundance of closely related crocodiles that remains unparalleled to this day. As they…

Trade Fair News

Flexible Functional Films: The Future of Display Technology

Displays that are flexible and paper thin at the same time?! What might still seem like science fiction will be a major topic at the SID Display Week 2013 that…

Studies and Analyses

Invasive Species: "Away-Field Advantage" Weaker Than Ecologists Thought

The away-field advantage hypothesis hinges on this idea: Successful invaders do better in a new place because the environment is more hospitable to them. They…

Life & Chemistry

New Theory on Genesis of Osteoarthritis Comes with Successful Therapy in Mice

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have turned their view of osteoarthritis (OA) inside out. Literally. Instead of seeing the painful degenerative disease as a…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Reef Fishes Prove Invaluable in the Study of Evolutionary Ecology

After reviewing recent research based on the study of habitat-specialist coral reef fishes, Boston University post-doctoral researcher Marian Y. L. Wong and…

Materials Sciences

DNA-Guided Assembly Yields Novel Ribbon-Like Nanostructures

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA “linker” strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way…

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