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Environmental Conservation

Extreme Winters Hurt Fish Populations in Streams and Rivers

It is well known that winter can be a stressful season for plants and animals in streams and rivers. It is reasonable to assume that it is the more extreme…

Information Technology

Advancing Quantum Communication: New Breakthrough in Storage

– This work represents the first step towards creating exotic mechanical quantum states. For example, the transfer makes it possible to create a state in which…

Life & Chemistry

Indian Plant’s Role in Targeting Cancer Cell Survival

Cancer cells typically avoid death by hijacking molecular chaperones that guide and protect the proteins that ensure normal cellular function and then tricking…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Source Influences Myocardial Infarction Treatment

When a research team from Denmark and Sweden compared the therapeutic capabilities of adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) versus bone marrow-derived stem cells…

Earth Sciences

Two NASA Satellites See Cyclone Gino's "Centered" Power

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Cyclone Gino on Feb. 12 at 1935 UTC…

Health & Medicine

Selumetinib: A Breakthrough in Advanced Thyroid Cancer Treatment

The experimental drug selumetinib may allow some patients with advanced thyroid cancer to overcome resistance to radioiodine (RAI), the most effective therapy…

Environmental Conservation

Picky Eater Fish Clean Up Seaweeds From Coral Reefs

In a study done at the Fiji Islands, the researchers learned that just four species of herbivorous fish were primarily responsible for removing common and…

Life & Chemistry

Climate Change Affects the Flight Period of Butterflies in Massachusetts

In a new study, Boston University researchers and collaborators have found that butterflies show signs of being affected by climate change in a way similar to…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Cell Communication Control Centers and Their Functions

The cells within the human body continually communicate with one another in order to fulfil their various tasks. For that purpose, they are equipped with…

Trade Fair News

Speech technology for additional communication channels

The Heidelberg-based IT enterprise EML European Media Laboratory GmbH will be represented at this year’s CCW trade fair (former CallCenterWorld) in Berlin from…

Business and Finance

Flexible, social, 4.0

Which key features will define the manufacturing activities of tomorrow? In setting out to answer this question for their current study, researchers at…

Life & Chemistry

Using Light to Control Cell Clustering

A new study from engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, pairs light and genetics to give researchers a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Modern Growing Methods May Be Culprit of 'Coffee Rust' Fungal Outbreak

The current outbreak of coffee rust is the worst seen in Central America and Mexico since the fungal disease arrived in the region more than 40 years ago….

Materials Sciences

Manufacturing: Chip-free ceramics

Ceramics are hard, chemically inert and can withstand high temperatures. These attributes make them ideal structural components in engines, high-performance…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Semiconductor interfaces: Big opportunities for tiny insulators

Advances in miniaturization have made electronic devices cheaper and more powerful, but these procedures also create new challenges for materials scientists….

Physics & Astronomy

Photonics: Deconstructed nanosensors light the way forward

Metal nanostructures can act as tiny antennae to control light since they can focus and guide light on the smallest of scales. The optical properties of these…

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