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Earth Sciences

CryoSat-2 mission reveals major Arctic sea-ice loss

Researchers used new data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 satellite spanning 2010 to 2012, and data from NASA’s ICESat satellite from 2003 to 2008…

Life & Chemistry

Alluring Scents – Insights into the evolution of sex pheromones from a parasitic wasp

A German-American research team from the Arizona State University (USA), the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig Bonn , the University of Regensburg,…

Life & Chemistry

Nanosensors support skin cancer therapy

As the life span of the patients carrying the mutation can be significantly extended by novel drugs, it is very important to identify those reliably. For…

Physics & Astronomy

A Quantum Dot Energy Harvester: Turning Waste Heat into Electricity on the Nanoscale

“The system is really a simple one, which exploits certain properties of quantum dots to harvest heat,” Professor Andrew Jordan of the University of Rochester…

Technology Offerings

Unique Tilapia: Hormone-Free Fish Farming Innovation

Tilapia has become the second most important fish in aquaculture after carp and before salmon. Consumers are starting to demand hormone-free fish grown under…

Technology Offerings

Silica-based Photopigments – Silica-based gel with entrapped (photo-)sensitive material

Entrapping sensitive material, e.g. immobilization of biomolecules or immobilization of other light-, pH- and/or temperature sensitive material is a demanding…

Technology Offerings

ECO-PESED – Efficient and codon optimized protein expression, secretion and detection system for the green microalga Chlamydomon

The wide use of recombinant polypeptides is limited by still insufficient means of production, namely, their expression in host cells. The most often used…

Environmental Conservation

Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline, says CU study

The new study showed that pinyon pine seed cone production declined by an average of about 40 percent at nine study sites in New Mexico and northwestern…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Switch in Pancreatic Cancer: Key to Treatment Outcomes

A team from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania profiled gene expression of mouse pancreatic ductal and duct-like cells from…

Studies and Analyses

Marketing technique: Activating gender stereotypes just to knock 'em down

A new study by USC Marshall Professor Valerie Folkes and Ohio State University Professor Shashi Matta looks at the issue of product perception of consumers…

Environmental Conservation

Cities Can Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 70%: U of T Research

Kennedy and Sugar make the claim in 'A low carbon infrastructure plan for Toronto, Canada,' published in the latest issue of The Canadian Journal of Civil…

Health & Medicine

Folic Acid Supplements and Autism Risk During Pregnancy

Beginning to take folic acid supplements later in pregnancy did not reduce the risk. This is shown in new findings from the ABC Study and Norwegian Mother and…

Physics & Astronomy

Explore the Rich Wonders of the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud

This part of the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer) is one of the richest star fields in the whole sky — the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud. The huge…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Cyclone Gino’s Winds in New Infrared Imagery

On Feb. 12 at 0841 UTC, NASA Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard the Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Cyclone Gino that…

Environmental Conservation

Stanford Scientist Reveals Secrets of Harvester Ant Reproduction

Ants are just about everywhere you look, and yet it's largely unknown how they manage to be so ubiquitous. Scientists have understood the carnal mechanism of…

Social Sciences

EU Invests €2.5M in SocIEtY Project for Young Lives

The European Union is investing 2.5 million Euro in the ‘SocIEtY’ research project launched on Friday 1 February. A total of 40 social scientists will be…

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