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Life & Chemistry

FSU Chemist Develops Advanced Toxin Mousetrap Solution

Featured on the cover of the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Sourav Saha's specialized work to strip electrons from the toxic…

Health & Medicine

Exposing cancer's lethal couriers

Malignant cells that leave a primary tumor, travel the bloodstream and grow out of control in new locations cause the vast majority of cancer deaths. New…

Life & Chemistry

Bone marrow holds secrets for treating colitis and Crohn’s

The results, featured in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, show that the havoc inflammatory bowel diseases wreaks on…

Medical Engineering

MRI Insights for Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Benefits

PSA screening has resulted in improved prostate cancer survival, but the high rate of diagnosis and treatment side effects raise concerns about overtreatment….

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Guilt and Anger: Distinguishing Emotions

The ability to identify and distinguish between negative emotions helps us address the problem that led to those emotions in the first place. But while some…

Health & Medicine

Fish Eaters May Face Lower Heart Attack Risks Despite Mercury

Fish is healthful food, and several studies have shown that people who eat fish have a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases than those who eat very little or…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Satellite Saw 'Power-Trigger' Around Hurricane Miriam's Center

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sept. 23 and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured an infrared image of…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Global Hawk and Satellites See Tropical Storm Nadine Turning Around

The fifth science flight of NASA's Global Hawk concluded when the aircraft landed at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. on Sunday, Sept. 23…

Environmental Conservation

Yale Researchers Urge Action on Specialty Metals Recycling

“A recycling rate of zero for specialty metals is alarming when we consider that their use is growing quickly,” said co-author Barbara Reck, a research…

Physics & Astronomy

Webb Telescope’s First Flight Mirrors Arrive at NASA

The mirrors are going through receiving and inspection and will then be stored in the Goddard cleanroom until engineers are ready to assemble them onto the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Reveals Typhoon Jelawat’s Power Through Cloudtop Data

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite revealed a large area of powerful thunderstorms around the center of Typhoon…

Life & Chemistry

New Skin Virus Targets Acne-Causing Bacteria Effectively

Watch out, acne. Doctors soon may have a new weapon against zits: a harmless virus living on our skin that naturally seeks out and kills the bacteria that…

Life & Chemistry

Using Viruses to Treat Acne: A New Approach in Skincare

“There are two fairly obvious potential directions that could exploit this kind of research,” says Graham Hatfull of the University of Pittsburgh, an author of…

Materials Sciences

BASF and Max Planck Launch Graphene Research Lab

BASF and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) opened their joint research and development platform, the Carbon Materials Innovation Center…

Technology Offerings

New Synthetic Pathway Enzymes Boost Argyrins Production

The invention provides an alternative synthesis of Argyrins by providing the amino acid sequences of the synthetic pathway enzymes participating in the…

Technology Offerings

Production of Omega‐3 Fatty Acids by Myxobacteria

First, a method for cultivation the bacterial strains belonging to the suborder Sorangiineae of the order Myxococcales was developed. This allows a direct…

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