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NASA imagery reveals strength in Tropical Storm Michael's 'arm'

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured in infrared image of Tropical Storm Michael on Sept. 5 at…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Popularity in Kids to Increased Smoking Risks

Be warned, popularity may cause lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema.New research from the University of Southern California (USC) and University of Texas…

Life & Chemistry

How Bioluminescence Aids Ocean Predators in Food Selection

Sinking through the inky ocean, it would seem that there is little light at depth: but you'd be wrong. 'In the mesopelagic realm [200 m] bioluminescence [light…

Life & Chemistry

Deep-Sea Crabs Use UV Vision to Find Food

“Call it color-coding your food,” said Duke biologist Sönke Johnsen. He explained that the animals might be using their ultraviolet and blue-light sensitivity…

Medical Engineering

Minimally Invasive Surgery for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

A minimally invasive procedure known as endovascular repair used for abdominal aortic aneurysms has a low rate of complications, even in high-risk patients…

Health & Medicine

Acidic Tumor Microenvironments Boost Cancer Cell Survival

Their research investigating the effects of acidity on breast and pancreatic cancer cell lines revealed the importance of autophagy in acidic microenvironments…

Life & Chemistry

New study finds that bacteria on marine sponges can develop capacity to move and inhibit biofilm formation

Bacteria have ways of communicating with each other, and scientists have now identified a new signaling system that, when there is a critical mass of bacteria…

Studies and Analyses

Young Children With Cancer: Trauma Disorder Insights

People who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder relive their traumatic experiences in the form of flashbacks and nightmares – and in childhood, also in…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Teleportation Breaks Record at 143 Kilometers

The team succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a particle of light over a separation of 143 kilometres from the Canary Island La Palma to Tenerife. The…

Life & Chemistry

New Methane Source Found in Underbrush by Researchers

Some six years ago scientific textbooks had to be updated because of the surprising discovery made by the research group led by Frank Keppler that plants…

Technology Offerings

Activating LINE-1 Retrotransposons: New Insights in Mammals

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LINE-1 (Long INterspersed Element-1) elements represent the major class of mammalian non-LTR (long terminal repeat)…

Technology Offerings

Cytokinin Receptor Antagonists: New Insights and Applications

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Cytokinins are plant hormones involved in cell division, shoot meristem and leaf formation, chloroplast biogenesis, and…

Technology Offerings

EAP-Determination Boosts Beer Flavor Stability with BAX

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For the prognosis of the flavor stability of beer the electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy has been used for the…

Technology Offerings

Copper Complexes Show Promise as Anti-Tumor Agents

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There is still a considerable demand for the improvement of cytotoxic cancer
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Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy: Hope for Fatal Childhood Bone Diseases

The most serious form of excessively high bone density is a rare, hereditary disease which can lead to the patient’s death by the age of only five. Researchers…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Waste silicon gets new life in lithium-ion batteries at Rice University

The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan created forests of nanowires from high-value but hard-to-recycle silicon. Silicon absorbs 10 times more…

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