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Environmental Conservation

‘Dirty Blizzard’ in Gulf May Account for Missing Deepwater Horizon Oil

Jeff Chanton, the John Widmer Winchester Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University, is…

Physics & Astronomy

New Evidence Strengthens Case That Scientists Have Discovered a Higgs Boson

It describes the latest results from two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN that are searching for signs of the Higgs boson, a subatomic…

Health & Medicine

Tau Transmission Model Opens Doors for New Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Therapies

This Alzheimer's research, along with additional Parkinson's research from Penn and beyond, further demonstrates the cell-to-cell transmission of…

Health & Medicine

New research paper says we are still at risk of the plague

Today archaeologists unearthed a 'Black Death' grave in London, containing more than a dozen skeletons of people suspected to have died from the plague. The…

Information Technology

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly

Such is the potential of mobile LIDAR, a powerful technology that’s only a few years old and promises to change the way we see, study and record the world…

Physics & Astronomy

Solar Storm Near Earth Caused by Fast CME

Upon interacting with the giant magnetic bubble surrounding Earth, the magnetosphere, the CME caused a kind of solar storm known as a geomagnetic storm. The…

Hannover Messe

From Micro-Structures to Shipbuilding: Laser Technology at the Hannover Messe 2013

This year, the LZH will be exhibiting innovative developments and applications in the fields of “Laser-based Manufacturing Technologies” and “Laser Precision…

Information Technology

Ready for the cloud

How do you take a conventional piece of software and make it into a cloud-enabled application? This is the question at the core of the EU-funded ARTIST…

Life & Chemistry

Transistor in the Fly Antenna: Insect odorant receptors regulate their own sensitivity

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now provided experimental proof that the extremely sensitive olfactory…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck'

“Astronomers have previously cataloged more than 300 supernova remnants in the galaxy,” said lead scientist Mark Reynolds, a postdoctoral researcher at the…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

The wings enable the mirror, made of 18 pieces of beryllium, to fold up and fit inside a 16.4-foot (5-meter) fairing on a rocket, and then unfold to 21 feet in…

Health & Medicine

Drug-resistant MRSA bacteria — here to stay in both hospital and community (PLoS Pathogens)

The pre­dic­tion that both strains will coex­ist is reas­sur­ing because pre­vi­ous pro­jec­tions indi­cated that the more inva­sive and fast-growing…

Studies and Analyses

Unhealthy eating can make a bad mood worse

In a study, college-age women who were concerned about their eating behaviors reported that moods worsened after bouts of disordered eating, said Kristin…

Life & Chemistry

Highly effective communities of bacteria in the world's deepest oceanic trench

Their analyses document that a highly active bacteria community exists in the sediment of the trench – even though the environment is under extreme pressure…

Life & Chemistry

White blood cells found to play key role in controlling red blood cell levels

The findings could lead to novel therapies for diseases or conditions in which the red blood cell production is thrown out of balance. The study, conducted in…

Environmental Conservation

UEA research reveals catastrophic loss of Cambodia’s tropical flooded grasslands

The seasonally flooded grasslands around the Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, are of great importance for biodiversity and a refuge for 11…

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