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Earth Sciences

Understanding South Pacific Island Rainfall Projections

In the South Pacific, the study shows, these two effects sometimes cancel each other out, resulting in highly uncertain rainfall projections. Results of the…

Health & Medicine

Test developed to detect early-stage diseases with naked eye

Scientists have developed a prototype ultra-sensitive sensor that would enable doctors to detect the early stages of diseases and viruses with the naked eye,…

Life & Chemistry

New Innovations to Combat Food Spoilage and Bacteria Risks

Rotting foods are a serious risk to our health. The food industry is therefore correspondingly strict in its vigilance toward bacteria in products. The…

Materials Sciences

NEW DuPont™ Zytel® halogen free grade offers enhanced thermal ageing

“In a comparative test carried out on ISO tensile bars according to ISO 527 in DuPont’s European Technical Center in Geneva, Switzerland, data showed that our…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Quantum Theory: Researchers Explore Beyond Time

The proposal comes from an international team of researchers from Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Singapore, and is published today in Nature Physics. It is…

Health & Medicine

Key Discovery Links Doxorubicin to Heart Failure Risks

Doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug still in widespread use against a variety of cancers, has long been known to destroy heart tissue, as well as…

Health & Medicine

Younger Patients Face Higher Rectal Cancer Spread Risk

Rectal cancer is more likely to spread to the lymph nodes in younger patients, according to new findings that Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers will be…

Life & Chemistry

Nuclear Reprogramming Advances: Making Stem Cells Easier

Hot on the heels of his recent Nobel prize Dr John B. Gurdon has published today in BioMed Central's open access journal Epigenetics & Chromatin research…

Power and Electrical Engineering

US Shale Gas Surge Fuels Coal Exports and Emissions Concerns

However, the researchers warn that more than half of the recent emissions reductions in the power sector may be displaced overseas by the trade in coal.Dr John…

Studies and Analyses

Primates' brains make visual maps using triangular grids

Scientists at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have identified grid cells, neurons that fire in repeating triangular patterns as the…

Health & Medicine

Atrial fibrillation is a 'modifiable' risk factor for stroke

Atrial fibrillation, whose prevalence continues to rise, was described last year as the “new epidemic” in cardiovascular disease, even though AF can be…

Health & Medicine

Yeast model offers clues to possible drug targets for Lou Gehrig's disease, study shows

Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes have used baker's yeast — a tiny, one-celled organism —…

Health & Medicine

Is Exercise Risky? Sudden Cardiac Death in Ontario Under 40

It's a tragic news story that often makes headlines – a young, healthy, fit athlete suddenly collapses and dies of cardiac arrest while playing sports. Dr….

Health & Medicine

$2.3 Million Fund Boosts RUB’s HIV Vaccine Innovation

To support their research for a vaccine against the HI-Virus, Prof. Dr. Klaus Überla of the Faculty for Medicine at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and his…

Studies and Analyses

High-Intensity Training Boosts Brain Power in Middle-Aged Adults

High-intensity interval training makes middle-aged people not only healthier but smarter, showed a Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) study led by Dr. Anil Nigam…

Medical Engineering

Rheumatologists Embrace Ultrasound for Disease Management

More rheumatologists are embracing musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) to diagnose and manage rheumatic diseases. In response, the American College of…

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