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How Store Layout Shapes Retail Success and Customer Experience

According to Yunchuan “Frank” Liu, a retailer’s strategic manipulation of store layout is driven by an incentive to balance the shopping process of…

Earth Sciences

NASA Observes Intensifying Tropical Cyclone Garry

NOAA's GOES-15 satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm Garry when it was located about 330 nautical miles (379.8 miles/ 611.2 km) east of Pago…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Captures Tropical Storm Oswald Remnants

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the eastern side of the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Oswald the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Super-TIGER Balloon Sets New Flight Record

The record-breaking balloon, carrying the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (Super-TIGER) experiment, has been afloat for 46 days and is on its third…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Agricultural Finance in Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan (RUK) are among the world’s major wheat exporters. Their agricultural output can make a considerable contribution to domestic…

Medical Engineering

Maglev Tissues: Accelerating Toxicity Testing for Airborne Chemicals

In a development that could lead to faster and more effective toxicity tests for airborne chemicals, scientists from Rice University and the Rice spinoff…

Health & Medicine

Low Vitamin D Levels Increase Premenopausal Breast Cancer Risk

The study of blood levels of 1,200 healthy women found that women whose serum vitamin D level was low during the three-month period just before diagnosis had…

Physics & Astronomy

Chameleon Star Mystifies Astronomers with New Findings

Now, new observations by an international team, including University of Vermont astrophysicist Joanna Rankin, make these bizarre stars even more puzzling.The…

Health & Medicine

Anti-Fever Medications and Kidney Risks in Children

In an article published online Jan. 25 by the Journal of Pediatrics, Jason Misurac, M.D., and colleagues from IU and Butler University reported that nearly 3…

Awards Funding

Astrophysicist Rachel Somerville Wins 2013 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are pleased to announce that astrophysicist Rachel Somerville, Ph.D., has…

Earth Sciences

Loss of Arctic Sea Ice Speeds Domino Effect of Warming Temperatures at High Latitudes

Alan Werner, professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College, said that decreasing amounts of Arctic snow and ice in summer will lead to a greater degree of heat…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Research New Way to Battle Bacteria

The work is led by Dr. Christopher Nomura of the college’s Department of Chemistry, who discovered that a simple protein molecule can interrupt the process…

Health & Medicine

Blocking Digestive Enzymes May Reverse Shock, Stop Multiorgan Failure

Collectively, these maladies represent a major unmet medical need: they are the number one cause of mortality in intensive care units in the United States,…

Earth Sciences

Warmer Soils Release Additional CO2 Into Atmosphere

The study, from University of New Hampshire professor Serita Frey and co-authors from the University of California-Davis and the Marine Biological Laboratory,…

Earth Sciences

Nullarbor Region Once Full of Fast-Flowing Rivers

It has long been thought that a massive river system, almost 2000km long, extended from Queensland’s eastern margin and entered the sea near Ceduna, depositing…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cell Suicide Alarm Helps Destroy Escaping Bacteria

Some bacteria thwart this effort by ripping the bag open and then escaping into the macrophage’s nutrient-rich cytosol compartment, where they divide and could…

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