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Health & Medicine

Hypnosis: A Promising Treatment for IBS Patients

Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, is an very common stomach disease that manifests as abdominal pain and discomfort, disturbed bowel movements, abdominal…

Materials Sciences

Metal Oxide Nanofibers Effectively Clean Sulfur from Fuels

University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub sulfur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploding Star Missing From Formation of Solar System

In this study, published online last month in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, authors Haolan Tang and Nicolas Dauphas found the radioactive isotope iron…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Method Enhances Thermal Comfort in Low-Energy Buildings

The method is also the first of its kind to be integrated with a building simulation tool. Factoring in the different ways in which buildings are used and the…

Life & Chemistry

Breakwater-Inspired Electrodes Boost Energy Efficiency

Be it a battery or a fuel cell, efficient electrodes are the be-all and end-all of every electrochemical cell. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of…

Awards Funding

StemBANCC Secures €55.6M to Innovate Therapies for Major Diseases

Funded with a total budget of EUR 55.6 M, StemBANCC intends to develop new therapies for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and other major diseases. The…

Life & Chemistry

RIT Scientists Decode Bacterial Strains in Grapevines and Sugarcane

Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have published the whole genome sequence of bacteria associated with Jamaican sugarcane and Riesling grapevines…

Environmental Conservation

Following Phragmites Home: Scientists Use Satellite Data to Map Invasive Species in Great Lakes Wetlands

But how can these invasive reeds be eradicated before they take over their environment if we don’t know where they are?Now we do know, thanks to scientists…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Category 4 Cyclone Evan Impacting Fiji

According to NBC News, over 3,500 people in Fiji went to emergency shelters. Today, Dec. 17, Evan is lashing Fiji, just days after battering Samoa where it…

Earth Sciences

TRMM Satellite Insights on Tropical Cyclone Evan

On Tuesday, Dec. 11, the TRMM satellite saw Evan about 24 hours before the storm struck American Samoa, and the radar data at first seem incongruous for such a…

Health & Medicine

University of MD Researchers Tackle Drug-Resistant Malaria

The scientists, working as part of a large international team coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), have identified several promising genetic…

Health & Medicine

Weighing Immediate Health Risks Against Radiation Exposure

Radiation exposure from computed tomography (CT) and other medical sources has drawn considerable media attention in recent years. Stories warning of the…

Science Education

More private schools improves all students’ outcomes

This applies to students at both private schools and public schools. The effects persist in upper secondary school and higher education. This is shown in a new…

Life & Chemistry

New Stable Anti-Aromatic Compound Discovered at UT

By synthesizing a stable “antiaromatic” compound, as well as a never before seen intermediate version of that compound, chemists at The University of Texas at…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Links Enzyme PRSS3 to Prostate Cancer Risk

Their study, published in the Dec. 18 online edition of Molecular Cancer Research, is the first to link the enzyme PRSS3 to prostate cancer. “This molecule is…

Earth Sciences

Reviving Alpine Agriculture: Addressing Abandonment Issues

Agriculture is increasingly vanishing from the Alps. Land that was cultivated for centuries is now being abandoned and scrubs are encroaching on it. This…

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