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Earth Sciences

Exploring Magnetic Polarity Reversal and Earth’s Mantle Dynamics

The Earth is made up of a solid inner core, surrounded by a liquid outer core, in turn covered by a thicker or more viscous mantle, and ultimately by the solid…

Studies and Analyses

How Pollution Promotes Green Habits in Urban China

People living in China’s cities who say they’ve been exposed to environmental harm are more likely to be green: re-using their plastic grocery bags or…

Life & Chemistry

Autoantibodies Damage Blood Vessels in the Brain – Important Factor in the Development of Dementia

These findings were made by Marion Bimmler, a graduate engineer of medical laboratory diagnostics at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)…

Materials Sciences

New Coating Effectively Prevents Biofilms from Forming

Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand.A team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome bacterial…

Studies and Analyses

Navigating New Rules: How Brain Adapts to Driving Changes

Imagine traveling to Ireland and suddenly having to drive on the left side of the road. The brain, trained for right-side driving, becomes overburdened trying…

Health & Medicine

New Targets for Antiviral Therapies and Vaccine Strategies

Two new targets have been discovered for antiviral therapies and vaccines strategies that could enhance the body's defenses against such infectious diseases as…

Health & Medicine

Liver Cancer Cells Stop Making Glucose As They Become Cancerous

This change might benefit tumor cells by helping them grow and proliferate.The study tracks how this loss happens and suggests that reversing it might offer a…

Studies and Analyses

Grin and bear it — smiling facilitates stress recovery

In a study forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychological scientists Tara Kraft and Sarah Pressman…

Studies and Analyses

Kidney Removal Linked to Erectile Dysfunction, Study Finds

“This is the first study in medical literature to suggest that surgery for kidney removal can negatively impact erectile function while partial kidney removal…

Environmental Conservation

Mine Pollution Harms 1 in 5 Streams in Southern W.Va.

The study, published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology, documents substantial losses in aquatic insect biodiversity and…

Environmental Conservation

Humpback Whales Staying in Antarctic Bays Later into Autumn

The study, published today in the journal Endangered Species Research, provides the first density estimates for these whales in both open and enclosed habitats…

Studies and Analyses

Parents find terms 'large' or 'gaining too much weight' less offensive than 'obese'

If doctors want to develop a strong rapport with parents of overweight children, it would be best if physicians used terms like “large” or “gaining too much…

Health & Medicine

Laser Technology for Early Cancer Detection: MU Study Insights

A technique, known as photoacoustics, can find some forms of melanoma even if only a few cancerous cells exist, but a recent study by MU researchers found that…

Life & Chemistry

Stem cell therapy could offer new hope for defects and injuries to head, mouth

Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research partnered with Ann Arbor-based Aastrom…

Science Education

Plattner Institute Launches Worldwide Educational Web Platform “Open HPI”

As a forerunner in Europe, the Institute would like to make worldwide interactive online courses, taught by its computer science professors, available via the…

Studies and Analyses

Parents can increase children's activity by increasing their own

They can increase their own activity. In the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, Kristen Holm, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine…

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