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Infrared Emitters allow particle-free plastic welding

These pipes and containers are often injection molded as plastic half shells before being welded together to form the finished product. Infrared heating…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-sea squid can 'jettison arms' as defensive tactic

Stephanie Bush said that when the foot-long octopus squid (Octopoteuthis deletron) found deep in the northeast Pacific Ocean “jettisons its arms” in…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Earth Vaporization in Sci-Fi: A Literary Insight

In science fiction novels, evil overlords and hostile aliens often threaten to vaporize the Earth. At the beginning of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the…

Environmental Conservation

New Zealand Birds: Evolving Extinction Risks Uncovered

The results are important in light of the growing number of studies that try to predict which species could be lost in the future based on what kinds of…

Physics & Astronomy

'Cry' of a shredded star heralds a new era for testing relativity

This tell-tale signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, is a characteristic feature of the accretion disks that often surround the most compact…

Life & Chemistry

Notre Dame’s Oak Research Sheds Light on Climate Change

When the ice advanced, the oaks retreated. When the ice retreated the oaks advanced, spreading from tropical to temperate zones, up from Central America and…

Studies and Analyses

Speaking multiple languages can influence children's emotional development

This kind of code-switching, or switching back and forth between different languages, happens all the time in multilingual environments, and often in emotional…

Studies and Analyses

Cell-Based Therapy Boosts Healing in Chronic Leg Ulcers

That's the conclusion of a new study conducted in part at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and published online by The Lancet this week. The…

Earth Sciences

Mapping Africa’s Climate Future: Innovations in Regional Models

Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad other disasters.Using detailed regional climate models…

Event News

Solar Summit Freiburg 2012: Key Trends in Solar Energy

On October 18-19, 2012, the International Conference on Highlights and Trends in Solar Energy, Solar Summit Freiburg, will be held at the “Konzerthaus”…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking New Uses for Old Drugs: A Cost-Effective Approach

Sivanesan Dakshanamurthy and colleagues explain that drug companies must limit efforts to market new drugs because the current approach is so expensive,…

Communications Media

Research: Men respond negatively to depictions of ‘ideal masculinity’ in ads

Cele Otnes, a professor of advertising and of business administration who studies how marketing and advertising shapes consumption, says that men who compare…

Earth Sciences

13-year Cascadia study complete – and earthquake risk looms large

Written by researchers at Oregon State University, and published online by the U.S. Geological Survey, the study concludes that there is a 40 percent chance of…

Life & Chemistry

Northwestern Researchers Unveil Key Methodologies in Oncology

A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University's Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PS-OC) report important methodological…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular switch identified that controls key cellular process

In a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Oxford…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Fly Study Reveals Virus DNA in Their Genome

In a curious evolutionary twist, several species of a commonly studied fruit fly appear to have incorporated genetic material from a virus into their genomes,…

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