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Study Links Advanced Glaucoma to Higher Accident Risk

The first study to compare accident rates for drivers who have advanced glaucoma − an eye disease that affects peripheral vision − with normal-vision drivers,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Using rust and water to store solar energy as hydrogen

How can solar energy be stored so that it can be available any time, day or night, when the sun shining or not? EPFL scientists are developing a technology…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Flaws Linked to Common Inherited Muscular Dystrophy

An international research team co-led by a scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified two genetic factors behind the third most common…

Earth Sciences

'Groundwater inundation' doubles previous predictions of flooding with future sea level rise

Previous research has predicted that by the end of the century, sea level may rise 1 meter. Kolja Rotzoll, Postdoctoral Researcher at the UHM Water Resources…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Insights: Advancements in Arthritis & Anti-Fibrosis

In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made, University of Utah medical researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Control Flower Production: New Discoveries Unveiled

Flowers don't just catch our eyes, they catch those of pollinators like bees as well. They have to, in order to reproduce. Because plants need to maximize the…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on DNA Packaging Mutations in FSHD

A recent finding by medical geneticists sheds new light on how Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy develops and how it might be treated. More commonly known…

Health & Medicine

Effective AMD Treatment Even With Other Eye Issues

Due to the aging population, an increasing number of patients are being treated for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), an eye condition in which abnormal…

Process Engineering

Study provides recipe for 'supercharging' atoms with X-ray laser

The findings, which defy expectations and theory, could help scientists deliberately induce the high levels of damage needed to study extreme states of matter…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Sea Ice Growth: Insights from Climate Change Research

Scientists from NERC's British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena California explain why, unlike the dramatic losses…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Identification Method Uncovered by Scientists

Scientists studying the genes and proteins of human cells infected with a common cold virus have identified a new gene identification technique that could…

Life & Chemistry

Wild Birds and the 2010 West Nile Virus Outbreak in Greece

WNV is a flavivirus of major public health concern, spread through the bite of infected mosquitoes. Discovered in Uganda in 1937, it was only sporadically…

Life & Chemistry

International Research Team Finds Two Genetic Flaws Behind Third Most Common Form of Inherited Muscular Dystrophy

The team, co-led by Stephen Tapscott, M.D., Ph.D., a member of the Hutchinson Center’s Human Biology Division, discovered that a rare variant of FSHD, called…

Health & Medicine

Obesity Crisis: Rising Rates Across All Social Groups

A new thesis from the Lund University School of Economics and Management, Sweden, shows that obesity is increasing across all social groups and that we need to…

Social Sciences

Vampire Saga Boosts Tourism in Forks, Washington

More than a quarter of a million visitors from all over the world have travelled to the small town of Forks, situated in the northwest of the USA, where the…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Use Sticky Lollipops to Attack Host Cells

Tübingen and Berlin scientists investigate pathogens by help of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy – Publications in Nature Methods and Nature…

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