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Medical Engineering

New MRI Technique Detects Early-Stage Coronary Disease

“Imaging the coronary arteries that supply the heart with blood is extremely difficult because they are very small and constantly in motion,” said lead…

Health & Medicine

Should H5N1 Influenza Moratorium Continue? New Research Insights

In a series of commentaries appearing on Tuesday, October 9 in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, prominent…

Technology Offerings

Biocompatible Bone Substitute: Advancements in Tissue Engineering

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Bone medicine and tissue engineering is becoming increasingly important in the ageing modern society. Up to 55% of over fifty…

Materials Sciences

Building 3D Structures from a 2D Template

In modern telecommunications, light carries digital information over kilometers within seconds. Adapted optical materials control the light signals. In the AFM…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Tree Nut Research May Unexpectedly Lead to Medical Advances

Petri-dish experiments conducted by now-retired Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Bruce C. Campbell, ARS molecular biologist Jong H. Kim, and…

Information Technology

How Will Smart Cars Affect the Future of Driving?

California, Nevada, and Florida have already made driverless cars street-legal, and continuing advances in the technology have led many to predict that the…

Materials Sciences

Scratching the Surface: Stanford Engineers Examine UV Effects on Skin Mechanics

Reinhold Dauskardt, PhD, of Stanford’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been studying skin for years. But when he sent his students to look…

Machine Engineering

Using less gas and oil to get where you’re going

An engine without oil will not survive for very long. Pistons need plenty of lubricant in order to be able to move within the cylindrical sleeves in the engine…

Studies and Analyses

Explore Innovative Computer Programs Transforming Communication

From email to Twitter, blogs to word processors, computer programs provide countless communications opportunities. While social applications have dominated the…

Life & Chemistry

Mount Sinai Study Reveals Unique Mechanism of Opiate Addiction

Chronic morphine exposure has the opposite effect on the brain compared to cocaine in mice, providing new insight into the basis of opiate addiction, according…

Earth Sciences

Sun Emits Coronal Mass Ejection: What You Need to Know

Not to be confused with a solar flare, which is a burst of light and radiation, CMEs are a phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and can reach…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Show Wind Shear Impacting Tropical Storm Oscar

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Oscar on Oct. 4 at 1335 UTC (9:35 a.m. EDT) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s TRMM Satellite Bids Farewell to Tropical Storm Nadine

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed above long-lasting Nadine for the last time before the tropical storm's dissipation on…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA&#039;s Swift Satellite Discovers a New Black Hole in our Galaxy

“Bright X-ray novae are so rare that they're essentially once-a-mission events and this is the first one Swift has seen,” said Neil Gehrels, the mission's…

Studies and Analyses

BUSM study investigates genetic variants&#039; role in increasing Parkinson&#039;s disease risk

The study, which is published online in PLOS ONE, points to the involvement of specific genes and alterations in their expression as influencing the risk for…

Physics & Astronomy

TMT Will Take Discoveries of Stars Orbiting the Milky Way&#039;s Monster Black Hole to the Next Level

The finding, appearing today in the journal Science, points ahead to groundbreaking experiments involving Einstein's general theory of relativity. Those tests…

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