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Beer’s bitter compounds could help brew new medicines

That might not sound like a big deal to the average brewmaster, but the findings overturn results reported in scientific literature in the last 40 years and…

Life & Chemistry

In-Brain Monitoring Reveals Key Memory Networks

“Previous work has focused on one region of the brain at a time,” said Arne Ekstrom, assistant professor at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience. “Our results…

Life & Chemistry

Cornell Engineers Uncover Biological Insight to Enhance AI

The new insight also will help evolve artificial intelligence, so robot brains can acquire the grace and cunning of animals.From brains to gene regulatory…

Studies and Analyses

Brain Cells Influence Temperature Preferences in Animals

Scientists have known that a type of brain cell circuit helps regulate a variety of innate and learned behavior in animals, including their temperature…

Event News

FEBS, EMBO and French Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology to hold joint conference in 2014

The FEBS–EMBO 2014 Conference will be a unique international event that brings together many leading researchers to discuss the latest scientific findings in…

Health & Medicine

Five-Year Study: Over Half of ACL Reconstructions Avoidable

The results made waves around the world, and were met with concerns that the results would not hold up in the long term. Now the researchers have published a…

Life & Chemistry

“Super” Enzyme Protects Against Dangers of Oxygen

Since its discovery in 1969, scientists believed SOD1’s only role was to protect living cells against damage from free radicals. Now, researchers at the Johns…

Earth Sciences

Spring may come earlier to North American forests

Trees play an impor­tant role in tak­ing up car­bon diox­ide from the atmos­phere, so researchers led by David Med­vigy, assis­tant pro­fes­sor in Princeton’s…

Earth Sciences

NASA Observes Overshooting Cloud Tops in Cyclone Felleng

An overshooting (cloud) top is a dome-like protrusion that shoots out of the top of the anvil of a thunderstorm and into the troposphere. It takes a lot of…

Event News

Current State of Battery Research: Key Insights and Trends

Present day’s and tomorrow’s challenges to battery research are the topics of an international conference “Next Generation Batteries – Materials, Technology,…

Medical Engineering

3D Printing Innovations for Articular Cartilage Repair

When Jürgen Groll enumerates the properties of cartilage, you can hear the admiration in his voice. “Cartilage is quite the high-tech composite,” he says. What…

Environmental Conservation

Energy Use in Cities Affects Global Climate Patterns

The heat generated by everyday energy consumption in metropolitan areas is significant enough to influence the character of major atmospheric circulation…

Process Engineering

Boosting Cost-Efficiency in Microprocessing with Multi-Beam Lasers

By splitting the laser beam into several beamlets, the output of high-power ultra-short-pulse lasers can be fully utilized for microprocessing, which delivers…

Awards Funding

IVAM Marketing Prize Opens to All Micro and Nano Companies

The prize will be awarded for innovative strategies and extraordinary performances in marketing. For the first time the competition is open for companies and…

Automotive Engineering

New Progressive Optics Eliminate Blind Spots in Side Mirrors

Today's motor vehicles in the United States use two different types of mirrors for the driver and passenger sides. The driver's side mirror is flat so that…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

With Hot Air Treatment, Bacteria Fly the Coop

While being transported in coops on trucks, poultry that have bacteria such as Campylobacter can contaminate, through their feces, other poultry that are free…

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