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Earth Sciences

New 5-Million-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Cat Discovered in Florida

The 5-million-year-old fossils belong to the same lineage as the famous Smilodon fatalis from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a large, carnivorous apex…

Earth Sciences

UCLA & Harvard Experts Outline Governance for Geoengineering

That inherent tension, argue two professors from UCLA and Harvard, has thwarted both scientific advances and the development of an international framework for…

Studies and Analyses

Vitamin E’s Potential Role in Cancer Prevention Explored

Many animal studies have suggested that vitamin E could prevent cancer, but human clinical trials following up on those findings have not shown the same…

Life & Chemistry

How Gene Mutations Shape Survival in Nebraska Deer Mice

For deer mice living in the Nebraska Sandhills, color can literally be the difference between life and death. When they first colonized the region, the…

Physics & Astronomy

Water Signature on Distant Planet Sheds Light on Formation

The finding provides astrophysicists with additional insight into how planets are formed. “This is the sharpest spectrum ever obtained of an extrasolar…

Environmental Conservation

Two Marine Protected Areas Created on Argentina’s Coast

The Wildlife Conservation Society applauds the Government of Argentina for creating two enormous marine protected areas in Patagonia, a region filled with…

Power and Electrical Engineering

GE Power Conversion to Supply one of the World’s Most Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facilities

GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has signed a turnkey contract with the Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center (LORC), a Danish center for test of…

Physics & Astronomy

'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter

Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found near the planet’s equator have long been mysteries. Now, using images from NASA's Cassini…

Information Technology

NASA's First Laser Communication System Integrated, Ready for Launch

The space terminal for the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD), NASA's first high-data-rate laser communication system, was recently integrated onto…

Power and Electrical Engineering

'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies

The metasurfaces could make possible “planar photonics” devices and optical switches small enough to be integrated into computer chips for information…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Technique Shows Promise for ED Treatment

The study was conducted by a group of Korean scientists and will be awarded 3rd prize for best abstract in non-oncology research on the opening day of the…

Studies and Analyses

Is Technology Outpacing Society? Insights from Martin Hultman

This quote comes from the historian of ideas, Martin Hultman, who in a widely publicized research project together with his colleague Christer Nordlund, from…

Health & Medicine

New Urethral Cells Detected: Potential Hazard Detection Insights

The authors suggest that in analogy to brush cells of the respiratory tract, the urethral brush cells may also serve as sentinels being able to detecting…

Materials Sciences

Flexible Minerals Inspired by Deep Sea Sponges Innovation

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Germany have created a new synthetic…

Health & Medicine

Abiraterone’s New Role in Curbing CRPC Tumor Growth

The study, which won the first prize for best abstract in oncology at the 28th European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress to be held in Milan from March 15…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights in COVID-19 Antidote Development

Scientists all over the world are on a quest for an antidote since the first patient died from the new coronavirus in summer 2012. Infection Researchers from…

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