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Power and Electrical Engineering

Light might prompt graphene devices on demand

Rice University researchers are doping graphene with light in a way that could lead to the more efficient design and manufacture of electronics, as well as…

Interdisciplinary Research

Cold cases heat up through Lawrence Livermore approach to identifying remains

Using “bomb pulse” radiocarbon analysis developed at Lawrence Livermore, combined with recently developed anthropological analysis and forensic DNA techniques,…

Health & Medicine

Mount Sinai researchers discover gene signature that predicts prostate cancer survival

Using blood from 202 men with treatment-resistant prostate cancer, researchers found six genes characteristic of treatment-resistant prostate cancer. Men with…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Variations Linked To Increased Bipolar Disorder Risk

“Using samples from some 3,400 individuals, we identified several new variants in genes closely associated with bipolar disorder,” said Scripps Florida…

Environmental Conservation

Palm Oil Deforestation: Major CO2 Emissions Uncovered

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is…

Earth Sciences

NASA Eyes Typhoon Prapiroon's U-Turn

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Prapiroon on Oct. 10 at 0435 UTC (12:35 a.m. EDT) and captured a visible image of the storm. The Moderate Resolution…

Physics & Astronomy

Suomi NPP Satellite Captures Stunning Auroras Over North America

Three days later, the storm from the Sun stirred up the magnetic field around Earth and produced gorgeous displays of northern lights. NASA satellites track…

Life & Chemistry

Multicolor Imaging: A New Tool for Bacterial Diagnostics

An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new…

Life & Chemistry

Whale Lunges Uncovered: New Insights on Feeding Behavior

Knowing that Jeremy Goldbogen and colleagues had successful tagged blue, fin and humpback whales to reveal how they lunge through giant shoals of krill, Simon…

Life & Chemistry

Soft-Shelled Turtles: Unique Mouth Urination Adaptation

Chinese soft-shelled turtles are exquisitely adapted to their aquatic lifestyle, sitting contentedly on the bottom of brackish muddy swamps or snorkelling at…

Life & Chemistry

New Cave-Dwelling Coral Species Discovered in Indo-Pacific

Coral specialist Dr. Bert W. Hoeksema of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, The Netherlands, recently published the description of a new coral species…

Studies and Analyses

Food Marketers: Boost Consumer Health and Profits

In this study authors Dr. Brian Wansink, co-director of the Cornell University Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition and Professor of Marketing…

Life & Chemistry

Prospective Alzheimer's drug builds new brain cell connections

Washington State University researchers have developed a new drug candidate that dramatically improves the cognitive function of rats with Alzheimer's-like…

Studies and Analyses

The Marshmallow Study Revisited

Now a new study demonstrates that being able to delay gratification is influenced as much by the environment as by innate ability. Children who experienced…

Life & Chemistry

Unreliable Techniques in Protein Evolution Pathway Analysis

A key assumption that biologists have relied on widely over the past quarter-century in studying the evolution of protein molecules is “highly questionable,”…

Technology Offerings

CO2 Capture – Gas Treatment with Lipophilic Amines

An innovative method for the separation of CO2 from gases, e.g. flue or synthesis gas, by chemisorption using an aqueous solution of mixed lipophilic amines,…

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