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Life & Chemistry

Bundling Expertise: Advancing Infection Research Together

Two leaders in the field of infection research are planning on bundling their expertise in the future. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection…

Health & Medicine

New AIDS Drug Advances: Caution Urged Against STIs

Combination therapies for AIDS are becoming increasingly effective, but they cannot protect against other sexually transmitted illnesses. It is unsafe for…

Environmental Conservation

Researcher Tests Powerful New Tool to Advance Ecology, Conservation

The study featured on the cover of the November issue of Ecology shows animal bone remains provide high-quality geographical data across an extensive time…

Physics & Astronomy

Record-Setting X-Ray Jet Discovered

The jet was produced by a quasar named GB 1428+4217, or GB 1428 for short. Giant black holes at the centers of galaxies can pull in matter at a rapid rate…

Physics & Astronomy

A Multi-Wavelength View of Radio Galaxy Hercules A

Some two billion light-years away, the yellowish elliptical galaxy in the center of the image appears quite ordinary as seen by Hubble in visible wavelengths…

Earth Sciences

Human-Caused Climate Change Signal Discovered in Data

The team looked at geographical patterns of atmospheric temperature change over the period of satellite observations. The team's goal of the study was to…

Physics & Astronomy

Life on Cooling Stars: Exploring Habitable Planet Potential

No terrestrial, or Earth-like planets have yet been confirmed orbiting white or brown dwarfs, but there is no reason to assume they don’t exist. However, new…

Health & Medicine

Cancer Diagnosis Leads Diabetics to Neglect Blood Sugar Care

When people with Type 2 diabetes are diagnosed with cancer — a disease for which they are at higher risk — they ignore their diabetes care to focus on cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Proteins at DNA’s End: New Insights into Cancer Research

Led by bioengineering professor Sua Myong, the research group’s findings are published in the journal Structure. Myong’s group focused on understanding the…

Earth Sciences

More Evidence for an Ancient Grand Canyon

For over 150 years, geologists have debated how and when one of the most dramatic features on our planet—the Grand Canyon—was formed. New data unearthed by…

Business and Finance

Companies Using Marketing Analytics Increase Return on Assets by Avg 8%, Says Study Analyzing Fortune 1000 Co’s

The research was conducted by Penn State University Management Science Professor Gary L. Lilien, former president of an INFORMS predecessor society; Arvind…

Earth Sciences

UCLA Uncovers Water Ice and Organic Material on Mercury

Using data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, a team from UCLA crafted the first accurate thermal model of the solar system's innermost planet,…

Life & Chemistry

Activating ALC1: New Insights from Stowers Institute Research

In their latest study, scientists at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research are continuing to unravel the finicky details of how these architectural…

Life & Chemistry

Garbage Bug Could Reduce Biofuel Production Costs

“Here at the EBI and other places in the biofuel world, people are trying to engineer microbes that can use both,” said University of Illinois microbiologist…

Life & Chemistry

Traffic Cops of Immunity: The Role of Regulatory T Cells

A certain type of immune cell – the regulatory T cell, or Treg for short – is in charge of putting on the brakes on the immune response. In a way, this cell…

Environmental Conservation

Simulating Ocean Acidification’s Effects on Stony Corals

Ocean acidification and its consequences for marine life pose several pressing problems that are of concern to scientists all over the world. One alarming…

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