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Innovative Sensor for In Vivo GABA Measurement

This invention involves a measurement process and a sensor for determining gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) on the basis of two enzymes. This invention relies on…

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Explore Novel Fluorescent Dyes with Unique Properties

The present invention consists of novel fluorescent dyes that primarily feature a large Stokes shift and long fluorescence lifetime. This is a nearly unique…

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Biological Sewer Gas Filter: Tackling H2S Smell Effectively

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is highly malodorous and often occurs in sewer systems during dry and warm climate periods. Sewer gas filters mounted into the shaft…

Earth Sciences

Summer Rain Delays Expected in U.S. and Mexico: Study Insights

A delay in the summer monsoon rains that fall over the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico is expected in the coming decades according to a new…

Earth Sciences

NASA Uncovers Causes of 2011 Arctic Ozone Hole

Even when both poles of the planet undergo ozone losses during the winter, the Arctic’s ozone depletion tends to be milder and shorter-lived than the…

Life & Chemistry

Hereditary Neurodegeneration: Key Enzyme Linked to ADP-Ribose

Researchers have now identified a much sought after enzyme that removes such ADP-ribose modifications from proteins by studying a genetic mutation that causes…

Environmental Conservation

Protected Areas Successfully Prevent Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest

In addition, protected areas established primarily to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of indigenous people performed especially well in places where…

Earth Sciences

As Brazil Ramps Up Sugarcane Production, Researchers Foresee Regional Climate Effects

The team found that anticipated conversion to sugarcane plantations could lead to a 1 degree Celsius decrease in temperature during the growing season, to be…

Environmental Conservation

Researcher Discovers Plankton Adjusts to Changing Ocean Temperatures

Texas Tech Associate Professor and Whitacre Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering Jian Sheng, along with biologists Brad Gemmell and Edward Buskey from the…

Materials Sciences

Graphene Researchers Create “Superheated” Water That Can Corrode Diamonds

This was achieved by attaching a layer of graphene on diamond and heated to high temperatures. Water molecules trapped between them become highly corrosive, as…

Materials Sciences

High-performance, organic nanowire phototransistors opens the way for optoelectronic device miniaturization

Phototransistors are transistors in which the incident light intensity can modulate the charge-carrier density in the channel. Compared with conventional…

Earth Sciences

Loss of Summer Rains Stoked Long Droughts in Southwest

The finding contradicts a commonly held belief regarding the region – that a dry winter rainy season is generally followed by a wet summer season, and vice…

Machine Engineering

New Sensor Module Boosts Production Quality and Efficiency

Defects, especially fractures and wrinkles, slow down production processes and increase the reject rate when forming mass products, e. g. during deep-drawing…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s SDO Observes Earth, Lunar Transits in Same Day

On March 11, however, SDO was treated to two transits. Earth blocked SDO’s view of the sun from about 2:15 to 3:45 a.m. EDT. Later in the same day, from around…

Health & Medicine

Single Concussion Linked to Lasting Brain Damage in Study

“This is the first study that shows brain areas undergo measureable volume loss after concussion,” said Yvonne W. Lui, M.D., Neuroradiology section chief and…

Life & Chemistry

Biological Wires: How Bacteria Use Amino Acids to Conduct Electricity

In nature, the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens uses these nanowires, called pili, to transport electrons to remote iron particles or other microbes, but the…

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