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New Hope Against Multi-Resistant Germs: Innovations Unveiled

An increasing number of bacteria is evolving antibiotic resistance. Much-feared representatives of this steadily growing group include Staphylococci strains….

Studies and Analyses

Underage Youth Drinking Concentrated Among Small Number of Brands

The report, published online by Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, is the first national study to identify the alcohol brands consumed by underage…

Studies and Analyses

University of Florida Reports 2012 U.S. Shark Attacks Highest Since 2000

The U.S. saw an upturn in attacks with 53, the most since 2000. There were seven fatalities worldwide, which is lower than 2011 but higher than the yearly…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Can Simple Measures of Labile Soil Organic Matter Predict Corn Performance?

“The labile fraction is small – usually less than 20 or even 10 percent, depending on how you define it,” explains Steve Culman, lead author of a study…

Earth Sciences

Sunlight Stimulates Release of Climate-Warming Gas From Melting Arctic Permafrost

University of Michigan ecologist and aquatic biogeochemist George Kling and his colleagues studied places in Arctic Alaska where permafrost is melting and is…

Earth Sciences

Groundwater levels drop at 'alarming' rate in large swath of Middle East

Scientists uncovered the water depletion by conducting one of the first comprehensive and publicly available sets of hydrological measurements of the area….

Materials Sciences

Large scale production of Edge-Functionalized Graphene Nanoplatelets (EFGnPs)

The electrocatalytic activity of heteroatom-doped carbon-based nanomaterials has become a growing interest in the past few years due to their potential…

Life & Chemistry

Pinpointing Protein Locations

Scientist from MIT have now developed a technique that can tag all of the proteins in a particular region of a cell, allowing them to more accurately map those…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough in Molecular Recognition Research Published in Nature

A team of researchers including post-doctoral fellows Seonghwan Kim, Dongkyu Lee and Xuchen Liu, with research associate Charles Van Neste, visiting professor,…

Earth Sciences

NASA Provides Satellite Views of Nor'easter Lifespan

The nor'easter dropped between 2 and 3 feet of snowfall over the U.S. Northeast and left more than 650,000 without power in eight states, according to the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Reveal Freshwater Loss in Middle East

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in…

Medical Engineering

New Modeling Approach Enhances Imaging Technologies with MBIR

“Current thought is that symptoms will worsen within hours or days of device shut-off, but these two young men continued to have clinical benefit despite…

Health & Medicine

New Test Simplifies Genetic Testing for Huntington Disease

A new test may help to streamline genetic testing for Huntington Disease (HD) by generating accurate results, avoiding unnecessary additional testing, and…

Life & Chemistry

Advancing Behavioral Norms for Pro-Environmental Action

Researchers should study how people's social and personal norms are influenced by behavior and use their insights to help governments promote pro-environmental…

Life & Chemistry

EEG Activity Reveals Why Some Learners Struggle More

The reason why some people are worse at learning than others has been revealed by a research team from Berlin, Bochum, and Leipzig, operating within the…

Life & Chemistry

Cell Shape Changes in Mitosis: Insights from Heidelberg Research

Scientists at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University have gained new insight into the process of mitosis in mammalian cells.Researchers…

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