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Environmental Conservation

19 Baby Siamese Crocs Released in Laos

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today the successful release of 19 critically endangered baby Siamese crocodiles into a local wetland in Lao PDR,…

Physics & Astronomy

Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution

Hubble was used to precisely measure, for the first time ever, the sideways motions of a small sample of stars located far from the galaxy's center. Their…

Studies and Analyses

Human Brain Evolution: Unique Structures Explained

This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor to human. These findings, based on an analysis of…

Materials Sciences

Laser Breakthrough Reveals Secrets of Superconductivity

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage. …

Life & Chemistry

Bone Marrow Environment Boosts Infection-Fighting T and B Cells

The research found that cells called early lymphoid progenitors, which are responsible for producing T cells and B cells, thrive in an environment known as an…

Health & Medicine

Preventing Chronic Pain Through Effective Stress Management

This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress.These are…

Health & Medicine

Distinct Niches in Bone Marrow Support Blood Stem Cells

Stem cells in the blood are the precursors to infection-fighting white blood cells and oxygen-carrying red blood cells.The research, by a team at Washington…

Life & Chemistry

New Analytical Trick Boosts Protein Study Efficiency

Proteins are essential building blocks of biology, used in muscle, brain, blood and hormones. If the genes are the blueprints, the proteins patterned on them…

Life & Chemistry

Sea Lamprey Genome Reveals Genes Linked to Neurological Disorders

Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UC Santa Barbara Unveils Innovative Solar Energy Harvesting Method

Though still in its infancy, the research promises to convert sunlight into energy using a process based on metals that are more robust than many of the…

Studies and Analyses

Screening Could Prevent 12,000 Lung Cancer Deaths Annually

That is the conclusion of a new analysis published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. By providing a national…

Studies and Analyses

Slow-Growing Babies Catch Up by Early Teens, Study Finds

ew research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol shows that most babies who are slow to put on weight in the first nine months of…

Life & Chemistry

Ocean’s Nitrogen Loss: Insights from South Pacific Expedition

During an expedition to the South Pacific Ocean, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, along with their colleagues from…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Simetal Merim: Boosting Efficiency in Steel Production

The newly developed Simetal Merim process from Siemens boasts an energy recovery level 20-30 percent higher than that achieved by conventional dedusting…

Machine Engineering

Laser Simplifies Mainte­nance in Casting Plants

All the rolls have to be precisely vertically aligned to ensure the mechanical stresses they are exposed to are equally distributed. Up into now, the roll…

Life & Chemistry

Heart Repair Breakthrough Using Unfertilized Oocytes

The concept was first shown in mice and advantages were documented. Online publication in JOURNAL FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION on 22 February 2013.Faster, easier…

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