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Life & Chemistry

New Animal Communication: Rats Use Sniffing to Connect

Sniffing, a common behavior in dogs, cats and other animals, has been observed to also serve as a method for rats to communicate — a fundamental discovery that…

Physics & Astronomy

Future of Ion Traps: Insights from Leading Quantum Experts

Recently Science Magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Cyclone 19P form

NASA's TRMM satellite captured a look at the rainfall rates within low pressure System 92P on March 7 at 0023 UTC (March 6 at 7:23 p.m. EST), just hours before…

Life & Chemistry

Audio Cassette-Inspired Innovation Cuts Fuel Production Costs

Audio cassettes make the production process for fuels less expensive: To produce nanoparticles made of inexpensive iron oxide cores with a very thin cobalt…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Discovers Birth Certificate of Oldest Known Star

“We have found that this is the oldest known star with a well-determined age,” said Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pa., and…

Environmental Conservation

Stocking Florida Bass in Texas: Impact on Local Ecosystems

The native largemouth bass has a long and nearly continuous stocking history in Texas. However, the Florida bass is widely considered a better sport fish…

Life & Chemistry

UC San Diego Engineers Vibrant Rainbow-Colored Algae

That’s the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer when they engineered a green alga used commonly in laboratories, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii,…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Bed Nets Could Eliminate Malaria in Africa

Malaria, the leading cause of death among children in Africa, could be eliminated if three-fourths of the population used insecticide-treated bed nets,…

Information Technology

NASA Provides Satellite Views of Nor'easter

Infrared data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite was made into a false-colored image of the Nor'easter from…

Physics & Astronomy

Pan-STARRS Discovers “Lost” Supernova in Milky Way Galaxy

Supernova explosions of massive stars are common in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, where new stars are forming all the time. They are almost never seen in…

Health & Medicine

Low Venous Insufficiency Incidence in MS Study Findings

Results of a study using several imaging methods showed that CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) occurs at a low rate in both people with…

Earth Sciences

Earth’s Temperature Warms Above 70% of Last 11,300 Years

With data from 73 ice and sediment core monitoring sites around the world, scientists have reconstructed Earth's temperature history back to the end of the…

Environmental Conservation

'Climate-smart strategies' proposed for spectacular US-Canadian landscape

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) creates a conservation strategy that will promote wildlife resiliency in the Southern…

Life & Chemistry

CRISPR Tool Boosts Disease Research with Gene-Probing Precision

Scientists at UC San Francisco have found a more precise way to turn off genes, a finding that will speed research discoveries and biotech advances and may…

Studies and Analyses

MS Memory Issues Linked to Significant Brain Damage Findings

The study used a type of MRI brain scan called diffusion tensor imaging along with regular MRI scans to compare brain measurements in 20 people with MS who had…

Medical Engineering

Enhancing Routine Medicine: Siemens Launches Luminos Fusion System

At the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria, Siemens will introduce a new system for the mid-range price segment that can do both…

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