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Environmental Conservation

Measuring mercury levels: Nano-velcro detects water-borne toxic metals

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Northwestern University and the University of Michigan found that their new method can measure…

Health & Medicine

Neonatal heart stem cells may help mend kids' broken hearts

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, who are exploring novel ways to treat serious heart problems in children, have conducted the…

Health & Medicine

Expanding Database Fuels Discoveries in Metabolomics

A major hurdle in profiling both unknown and known metabolic compounds (“metabolites”) has been the scarce amount of reference data. But a team from The…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Cell Actions in Atherosclerosis Breakthrough

Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital are one step closer to understanding why plaque bursts in coronary arteries and causes heart attacks.The clue might be…

Architecture & Construction

ORNL Roof Design Enhances Efficiency Year-Round

The system improves efficiency using controls for radiation, convection and insulation, including a passive ventilation system that pulls air from the…

Health & Medicine

Improved Diagnostic Test Enhances AML Outcomes in Kids

Early treatment response is a powerful predictor of long-term outcome for young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The information can help physicians…

Earth Sciences

Droughts are Pushing Trees to the Limit

As temperatures rise and droughts become more severe in the Southwest, trees are increasingly up against extremely stressful growing conditions, especially in…

Life & Chemistry

Enzymes Create Channels for Nano-Scale Innovations

In living systems, complex nano- and microscale structures perform a host of physical and biological functions. While two-dimensional patterns can be recreated…

Life & Chemistry

Intimate insights into nature’s photosynthetic powerhouse

With the aid of quantum chemistry they were able to provide unexpected insight into the properties of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC). The OEC is the…

Life & Chemistry

Princesses Become Warriors

Biologists from the universities of Freiburg and Copenhagen, Denmark, have discovered that queens of the ant genus Acromyrmex are flexible in the event that…

Physics & Astronomy

Penn Researchers Make First All-optical Nanowire Switch

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have made an important advance in this frontier of photonics, fashioning the first all-optical photonic switch…

Studies and Analyses

Children's health, access to care differ by parents' immigrant status

The study, by researchers at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, is published in the journal Child Development, whose September/October 2012…

Health & Medicine

Urban Noise Impact: WHO Highlights Risks to Sleep Health

The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public…

Life & Chemistry

New Screening Technique Reveals 5 Plant Activator Compounds

A new high-throughput screening technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) has been used to uncover five novel immune-priming…

Life & Chemistry

Race Impacts Finding Suitable Stem Cell Donors, Study Finds

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for…

Process Engineering

Cost-Effective Lasers Transform Solar Manufacturing Efficiency

Lasers can achieve a decisive step to greater efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs for crystalline and thin-film photovoltaics. With this goal in mind,…

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