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Educating Women Boosts Food Security in Africa: Insights from Kenya

The author of the thesis Simon Wagura Ndiritu has studied gender-related issues concerning agriculture and food management in Kenya and Tanzania. He found…

Health & Medicine

New Study Uncovers Cholesterol-Drug Side Effects Explained

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and physicians continue to document that some patients experience fuzzy thinking and memory loss while taking statins, a…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Two Tropical Cyclones Competing in the Indian Ocean

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this visible image of compact Tropical…

Earth Sciences

Siberian Wildfires vs. Agricultural Fires: Key Insights

These hotspots have been categorized as wildfires rather than agricultural fires by the website: http://fires.kosmosnimki.ru/ The popular Kosmosnimki.Ru web…

Health & Medicine

Potential flu pandemic lurks

In the summer of 1968, a new strain of influenza appeared in Hong Kong. This strain, known as H3N2, spread around the globe and eventually killed an estimated…

Life & Chemistry

Sacred Lotus Genome Sequenced: Insights for Science

Now researchers report in the journal Genome Biology that they have sequenced the lotus genome, and the results offer insight into the heart of some of its…

Life & Chemistry

Serotonin’s Role in Exercise-Induced Neurogenesis Uncovered

These are the findings of a study by Dr. Friederike Klempin, Daniel Beis and Dr. Natalia Alenina from the research group led by Professor Michael Bader at the…

Medical Engineering

New 3-D Technology to Treat Atrial Fibrillation Unveiled

Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows…

Health & Medicine

TYRX Antibacterial Envelope Cuts Cardiac Device Infections 90%

Use of TYRX, Inc.'s AIGISRx® Antibacterial Envelope reduced major infection rates by more than 90% in patients undergoing Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic…

Physics & Astronomy

Look but don't touch

Improving our understanding of the human brain, gathering insights into the origin of our universe through the detection of gravitational waves, or optimizing…

Life & Chemistry

Chemistry Breakthrough Enhances Understanding of Illness and Health

Thomas Just Sørensen and Bo Wegge Laursen are chemists at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In a series of publications in well-regarded scientific…

Life & Chemistry

Nano-Breakthrough: New Tool for Herringbone Crystal Control

The result gives nanotechnology researchers a new tool for controlling how objects one-millionth the size of a grain of sand arrange themselves into useful…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Unveiled

Their study is published today in the journal Nature Genetics.AIS is the most common pediatric skeletal disease, affecting approximately 2% of school-age…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Risk Factors for Testicular Cancer Discovered

A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer, the…

Health & Medicine

Non-Inherited Mutations Linked to Congenital Heart Defects

The analysis of all the genes of more than 1800 individuals found hundreds of mutations that can cause congenital heart disease, the most common form of birth…

Life & Chemistry

Carnivorous plant throws out 'junk' DNA

Genes make up about 2 percent of the human genome. The rest consists of a genetic material known as noncoding DNA, and scientists have spent years puzzling…

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