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Earth Sciences

Researchers Develop New Metric to Measure Destructive Potential of Hurricanes

Researchers at Florida State University have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms…

Materials Sciences

Geoscientists Predict New Compounds Could Change Our View of What Planets are Made Of

A team of researchers led by Artem R. Oganov, a professor of theoretical crystallography in the Department of Geosciences, has made a startling prediction that…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Recipe for Low-Cost, Biomass-Derived Catalyst for Hydrogen Production

In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Energy & Environmental Science (now available online), researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…

Power and Electrical Engineering

“Taxels” Convert Mechanical Motion to Electronic Signals

The arrays include more than 8,000 functioning piezotronic transistors, each of which can independently produce an electronic controlling signal when placed…

Health & Medicine

Chemoresponse Assay Boosts Ovarian Cancer Survival Rates

This spring, a team of researchers has released results from an eight-year study that shows improved survival rates for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer who…

Life & Chemistry

Key Organelle Discovered in Gene Silencing Mechanism

RNA molecules, made from DNA, are best known for their role in protein production. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), however, are short (~22) nucleotide RNA sequences found…

Earth Sciences

Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth’s Surface

An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Molecular Analysis: New Insights on Proteins

A dramatic leap forward in the ability of scientists to study the structural states of macromolecules such as proteins and nanoparticles in solution has been…

Studies and Analyses

Are living liver donors at risk from life-threatening 'near-miss' events?

For patients with end-stage liver disease, liver transplantation is their only option to prolong life. However, more than 16,000 Americans are currently on the…

Life & Chemistry

Thanks to rare alpine bacteria, researchers identify one of alcohol's key gateways to the brain

It's a major step on the road to eventually developing drugs that could disrupt the interaction between alcohol and the brain.”Now that we've identified this…

Earth Sciences

AWI permafrost researchers start work in the new research station in the Russian Lena Delta

Permafrost experts of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research are currently conducting a multi-week spring expedition to…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Captures Nanoparticle Dynamics in Action

In a recently published study, scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute invented a technique for imaging nanoparticle dynamics with atomic…

Physics & Astronomy

Sun’s CMEs Headed for Mercury: NASA’s Latest Insights

Experimental NASA research models show that the first CME began at 9:30 p.m. EDT on April 24. The second CME began at 5:24 a.m. EDT on April 25. Both left the…

Health & Medicine

Keeping beverages cool in summer: It’s not just the heat, it’s the humidity

It turns out that in sultry weather condensation on the outside of a canned beverage doesn’t just make it slippery: those drops can provide more heat than the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Imaging Tech Unlocks Hidden Cellular Secrets

“Let's say you have a large population of cells,” said Corey Neu, an assistant professor in Purdue University's Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. “Just…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D Shows Promise in Treating Liver Fibrosis

Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized…

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