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High-Volume Bitcoin Exchanges: Risk of Breach vs. Failure

Online exchanges that trade hard currency for the rapidly emerging cyber money known as Bitcoin have a 45 percent chance of failing — often taking their…

Earth Sciences

Rethinking Early Atmospheric Oxygen: New Insights Unveiled

A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of…

Life & Chemistry

Mammal and Bug Co-Op: Insights from High Arctic Research

U of A biology researcher Isabel C. Barrio analyzed how two herbivores, caterpillars and pikas, competed for scarce vegetation in alpine areas of the southwest…

Materials Sciences

Materials: Two ways to tame a radical

Replacing traditional semiconductors with flexible and lightweight organic components has the potential to realize significant cost savings for manufacturers….

Process Engineering

Microelectronics: Taking the heat off microfluidic chips

Microfluidic devices are allowing microelectronic engineers to shrink laboratories to the size of a computer chip. By ferrying reagents through a series of…

Health & Medicine

Inhaling Microbes: NYC Subway’s Hidden Microbial Landscape

This research, published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, establishes an important baseline, should it become necessary to…

Health & Medicine

Identifying H7N9 Virus Sources Behind Human Infections

A group of scientists, led by Professor Chen Hualan (National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin…

Health & Medicine

Study Connects Abnormal Placentas to Autism Risk at Birth

One out of 50 children are diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder in the United States each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Therapies Target Chronic HBV Infection Cure

HBV cccDNA is organized into mini-chromosomes within the nucleus of infected cells by histone and non-histone proteins. Despite the availability of efficient…

Health & Medicine

Melatonin Delays ALS Symptoms and Death in Mice Study

In a report published online ahead of print in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, the team revealed that receptors for melatonin are found in the nerve…

Earth Sciences

Dark Lightning Linked to Visible Lightning: New Findings

“Our results indicate that both these phenomena, dark and bright lightning, are intrinsic processes in the discharge of lightning,” said Nikolai Østgaard, who…

Social Sciences

Future Solutions for Elderly Care: Insights from Fraunhofer IAO

Fraunhofer IAO is developing progressive solutions for care of the elderly as part of the Care 2020 joint research project. Project partners are currently…

Earth Sciences

Organic Matter Impact on Bay Water Quality: New Study Insights

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams…

Life & Chemistry

Virus Targets Melanoma While Protecting Healthy Cells

“If it works as well in humans, this could confer a substantial benefit on patients afflicted with this deadly disease,” says Anthony van den Pol, a researcher…

Life & Chemistry

Threaded through a Pore – Single-molecule detection of hydroxymethylcytosine in DNA

In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a British team has now introduced a new method that makes it possible to enrich the rare gene segments that contain the…

Health & Medicine

Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibition: New Therapy for Cardiometabolic Syndrome

Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of California at Davis, led by Dr. John Imig and Dr. Bruce Hammock have determined the…

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