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Possible link between immune system and Alzheimer's

Using data from 25,000 people, researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and University College London's Institute of Neurology discovered that a rare genetic…

Information Technology

Keeneland Project Launches GPU Supercomputing System for NSF

This supercomputing system, which is available to the National Science Foundation (NSF) scientific community, is designed to meet the compute-intensive needs…

Studies and Analyses

California Children’s Public Health Insurance Trends Revealed

More of California’s children have public health insurance and fewer through their parents’ employer. And, over the past three years, a decade of advances in…

Life & Chemistry

New Ancient Shark Species Sheds Light on Great White Origins

Originally classified as a direct relative of megatooth sharks, the white shark’s evolutionary history has been debated by paleontologists for the last 150…

Life & Chemistry

How Nasal Cells Detect Odors: The Science Behind Smell

The human nose has millions of olfactory neurons grouped into hundreds of different neuron types. Each of these neuron types expresses only one odorant…

Life & Chemistry

Oxytocin Keeps Flirting Folks at Arm's Length

Researchers under the leadership of the University of Bonn studied whether this distance can be diminished by the so-called love hormone, oxytocin. The exact…

Information Technology

Computer Science Helping the Aged Stay Home

The researchers are adapting radio-frequency identification (RFID) and sensor technologies to automatically identify and monitor human activity; to be able to…

Health & Medicine

Even Low-Level Radioactivity Is Damaging

Reporting the results of a wide-ranging analysis of 46 peer-reviewed studies published over the past 40 years, researchers from the University of South…

Life & Chemistry

Watching the Developing Brain, Scientists Glean Clues on Neurological Disorder

A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine reveals how some nerve cells, called interneurons, navigate during the…

Information Technology

Georgia Tech Releases Cyber Threats Forecast for 2013

Those were the findings made by the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) and the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in today's release of the…

Earth Sciences

Global Temperature Report: October 2012

October temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: +0.33 C (about 0.59 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for October.Northern Hemisphere: +0.30…

Event News

World’s Largest Earth Science Experiment to Begin at UA’s Biosphere 2

WHEN:Thursday, Nov. 2912:30-1:30 p.m. – Media preview: Media will receive a tour of the facility and will have the opportunity to ask questions during an…

Health & Medicine

Biofactory introduces kits for assessment of protein-DNA interactions, targeting researchers and industry

Based on a unique technology developed by A*STAR Singapore, these inventive and easy-to-use kits are versatile, effective and quick in the screening for…

Health & Medicine

New Radiotherapy Technique May Replace Brachytherapy for Cancer

Some patients with solid tumors, including prostate cancer, are treated using a clinical technique called brachytherapy. Brachytherapy involves the surgical…

Studies and Analyses

Flame Retardants and Neurodevelopmental Delays in Children

The new study, to be published in the Nov. 15 issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, focuses on PBDEs, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers, a…

Life & Chemistry

Mini-Pig Genome Study Unlocks Insights for Human Health

The international open-access journal GigaScience (a BGI and BioMed Central journal) announces the publication of the whole-genome sequencing and analysis of…

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