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Earth Sciences

Glacial Retreat Discovered in Mount Everest Region

Members of the team conducting these studies will present their findings on May 14 at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico – a scientific conference…

Life & Chemistry

Become a Marathon Runner with the Protein PGC-1α

The research group of Prof. Christoph Handschin of the Biozentrum, University of Basel, shows that during endurance exercise the protein PGC-1α shifts the…

Corporate News

Amtrak Launches First Electric Locomotive from Siemens

The U.S. intercity passenger rail service had placed a €338 million ($466 million) order with Siemens for 70 electric locomotives in October 2010. By securing…

Earth Sciences

Western Indian Ocean: New Insights on Earthquake Hazards

The research was carried out by scientists from the University of Southampton based at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS), and the Pacific…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists light 'magnetic fire' to reveal energy's path

The study, which appears in the journal Physical Review Letters, also included researchers from the University of Barcelona, City College of New York, and the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees a Strengthening Tropical Cyclone Mahasen

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Mahasen in the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Observes Tropical Cyclone Jamala Fading Over Indian Ocean

When NASA’s Aqua satellite flew over the Indian Ocean on May 13 at 0747 UTC (3:47 a.m. EDT), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Pancreatic Cancer Cells Open Drug Target Avenues

In a landmark cancer study published online in Nature, researchers at NYU School of Medicine have unraveled a longstanding mystery about how pancreatic tumor…

Health & Medicine

New Master Regulator Found in B-Cell Lymphoma Research

A soon-to-be-tested class of drug inhibitors were predicted to help a limited number of patients with B-cell lymphomas with mutations affecting the EZH2…

Life & Chemistry

Salk scientists develop drug that slows Alzheimer's in mice

A drug developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, known as J147, reverses memory deficits and slows Alzheimer's disease in aged mice…

Environmental Conservation

Earthquake Sensors Help Track Endangered Fin Whales

A carcass that washed up on a Seattle-area beach this spring provided a reminder that sleek fin whales, nicknamed “greyhounds of the sea,” are vulnerable to…

Life & Chemistry

EGF Growth Factor Boosts Cell Division for Cancer Treatment

Biologists at Heidelberg University have discovered new approaches for the treatment of cancer. They investigated how a special signalling molecule, the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Planet-Finding Method Achieves First Discovery

The two most prolific techniques for finding exoplanets are radial velocity (looking for wobbling stars) and transits (looking for dimming stars). A team at…

Health & Medicine

CLABSI Prevention: 200,000 Infections Avoided in ICUs

The study, published in the June issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America,…

Studies and Analyses

NC Coal Plant Emissions Linked to Rising State Suicide Rates

Lead researcher John G. Spangler, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of family medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, looked specifically at the relationship between air…

Environmental Conservation

Saving the parrots: Texas A&M team sequences genome of endangered macaw birds

The team was led by Drs. Christopher Seabury and Ian Tizard at the Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical…

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