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Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature…

Studies and Analyses

When it rains these days, does it pour?

There's little doubt — among scientists at any rate — that the climate has warmed since people began to release massive amounts greenhouse gases to the…

Studies and Analyses

Study shows community approach effective in fight against diabetes

This is the largest program to successfully replicate the results achieved by the Diabetes Prevention Project (DPP), a research study led by the National…

Studies and Analyses

More parents say they won't vaccinate daughters against HPV, researchers find

A rising percentage of parents say they won't have their teen daughters vaccinated to protect against the human papilloma virus, even though physicians are…

Life & Chemistry

Microbes in the Mariana Trench

Sediments of the deepest trench on Earth, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, shows surprisingly high microbial activity. An international research team led…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Eco-Friendly Electric Buses Set to Transform Vienna Transit

The transportation authorities are now planning to operate two lines exclusively with eBuses by the middle of 2013. During the Skiing World Championships in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Next-Gen Tidal Stream Power Plants: SeaGen-S Unveiled

Today, the SeaGen power plant in a northern Irish narrows has an installed capacity of 1.2 megawatts (MW). The SeaGen-S will deliver two MW. The Welsh…

Technology Offerings

DualMode-Radio: Innovative Two-Mode Transmission Technique

Most current radio transmission techniques use locally generated signals for the demodulation of the received signals. The electronic devices like synthesizers…

Technology Offerings

SC Casting – Single Crystal Casting Process for Large Gas Turbine Blades

Directionally solidified (DS) and single crystal (SC) components have been used in aircraft turbines for many years. They are also used in smaller turbines for…

Earth Sciences

New Insights into Water’s Atomic Structure Under Extreme Conditions

Liquid water remains a mystery even after decades of dedicated scientific investigations and researchers still struggle to fully describe its unusual structure…

Life & Chemistry

Fungus Uses Copper Detox to Combat Meningitis Threat

Defense mechanisms used by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans enable it to lead to fatal meningitis, which is one of the opportunistic infections often…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Split Enzyme to Create Genetic Logic Gates

Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic logic gate.Biochemist Matthew Bennett and…

Physics & Astronomy

Mars-Bound Spacecraft Integrates Key Particles and Fields Package

The Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) was the last of the six instruments to be delivered, and was integrated late last week at Lockheed Martin in Littleton,…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Tropical Cyclone Tim in Coral Sea

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

Physics & Astronomy

Young Galaxies Show Early Starburst Activity Unveiled

On March 13, it was announced the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought – results now published in a…

Health & Medicine

Predicting Future Flu Outbreak Hotspots Through Surveillance

“Using surveillance of influenza cases in humans and birds, we've come up with a technique to predict sites where these viruses could mix and generate a future…

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