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Innovative Solutions to Protect COPD Patients from Infections

The abbreviation COPD stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the disease makes it difficult for patients to breathe. However, the disease affects…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Mutation for ALS Discovered by Western University Researchers

Dr. Michael Strong, a scientist with Western's Robarts Research Institute and Distinguished University Professor in Clinical Neurological Sciences at the…

Studies and Analyses

International study: Where there’s smoke or smog, there’s climate change

The new study concludes that black carbon, the soot particles in smoke and smog, contributes about twice as much to global warming as previously estimated,…

Environmental Conservation

Track Arctic-Breeding Birds: Innovative Migration Methods

Animals move around the globe in billions, sometimes – like the snow bunting – one of the iconic Arctic-breeding species, covering huge distances and enduring…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s 2012 Analysis Confirms Long-Term Climate Warming Trend

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis…

Health & Medicine

Choline Supplementation in Pregnancy: A New Schizophrenia Strategy

Choline, an essential nutrient similar to the B vitamin and found in foods such as liver, muscle meats, fish, nuts and eggs, when given as a dietary supplement…

Earth Sciences

Infrared NASA Imagery Shows Sinking Air, Elongation in Tropical Storm Emang

Infrared data on Tropical Storm Emang's cloud top temperatures was captured by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on Jan. 15 at 0823 UTC (3:23…

Health & Medicine

Surgical Site Infections Raise Risk of Blood Clots Post-Surgery

Despite receiving blood thinners and other clot prevention treatment, some patients still develop potentially lethal blood clots in the first month after their…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites See Cyclone Narelle Torn Apart

A time series of infrared images from an Aqua satellite instrument provides a clear picture of Narelle's former power and its recent demise, while TRMM 3-D…

Physics & Astronomy

High plutonium breeding of light water cooled reactors

Professor Oka's research team succeeded to develop the conceptual nuclear reactor design of high plutonium breeding by light water cooling for the first time…

Materials Sciences

High-Voltage Vacuum Power Switch for Smart Power Grids

As part of problem solving-oriented basic research sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), a group headed by Dr. Daisuke Takeuchi, a Senior…

Transportation and Logistics

Swedish METRO Project Enhances Safety in Underground Systems

– The project is unique since many organizations, with different skills, work together to make underground metro systems all around the world safer, says Mia…

Awards Funding

Virginia Tech Engineers Awarded $800,000 to Improve Radio Spectrum Usage

They are also expected to play a major role in tactical communications for the U.S. Navy and for the Department of Defense,” said Thomas Hou, professor of…

Life & Chemistry

Lack of Protein Sp2 Disrupts Neuron Creation in Brain

Troy Ghashghaei and Jon Horowitz, both faculty in NC State’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences and researchers in the Center for Comparative Medicine…

Life & Chemistry

Building Electronics From the Ground Up

But our expectation that the next shopping season will inevitably offer an upgrade to more-powerful gadgets largely depends on size – namely, the ability of…

Technology Offerings

Tailor-Made Magnetic Nanoparticles Transform Medical Applications

Magnetic nanoparticles provide a multitude of technical applications like magnetic resonance imaging, hyperthermic treatment of cancer, drug delivery,…

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