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Decline of New World Burning Post-Columbus: A Closer Look

In the years after Columbus' voyage, burning of New World forests and fields diminished significantly – a phenomenon some have attributed to decimation of…

Information Technology

High-Performance Fault-Tolerant Network for Modular Data Centers

Huang Feng, Li Dongsheng, and their group from the National Key Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Processing, School of Computers, National University of…

Earth Sciences

Magnetic field, mantle convection and tectonics

These are the research results presented by a group of geoscientists in the new advance edition of “Nature Geoscience” on Sunday, July 29th. The results show…

Health & Medicine

BGI Unveils NMNAT1 Mutations in Leber Congenital Amaurosis

The latest study was published online in Nature Genetics, reporting the genetic characteristics underlying some LCA patients, and providing important evidences…

Earth Sciences

Impact of Melting Glaciers on Water Resources in Central Asia

In areas where summer precipitation is low, glaciers play an important role when considering the quantity of available water. The Tien Shan region is a prime…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Method Offers Deeper Insights into Microbes

Microbes, such as bacteria, fungi and viruses, are invisible to the human eye but have been identified just about everywhere on earth: in soil, water, and air….

Earth Sciences

Chronic 2000-04 drought, worst in 800 years, may be the 'new normal'

Such climatic extremes have increased as a result of global warming, a group of 10 researchers reported today in Nature Geoscience. And as bad as conditions…

Power and Electrical Engineering

U of T Team Achieves Record Efficiency in Next-Gen Solar Cells

Researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T) and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) have made a breakthrough in the development of…

Health & Medicine

PSA Testing Impact: What If Screening Was Absent?

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that PSA testing and early detection may prevent…

Health & Medicine

Impact of PSA Testing on Prostate Cancer Progression

The URMC study suggests that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and early detection may prevent up to 17,000 cases of metastatic prostate cancer a year….

Life & Chemistry

Measuring Nano Particles: New Method Reveals Charge & Size

Prof. Krishnan has developed a new method that measures not only the size of the particles but also their electrostatic charge. Up until now it has not been…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Decode Deadly E. Coli Strain Behind Outbreak

The deadliest E. coli outbreak ever, which caused 54 deaths and sickened more than 3,800 people, was traced to a particularly virulent strain that researchers…

Health & Medicine

Hot Asphalt Chemical Linked to Higher Cancer Rates in Roofers

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published this week in the British Medical Journal Open shows that roofers have higher PAH blood-levels after…

Process Engineering

Automated Deposition Welding: Boosting Process Speeds by 400%

The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and three industrial partners have set a goal to achieve up to 400 percent higher process speeds for deposition welding…

Event News

Preparing for Outbreaks: Insights from the 3rd Influenza Meeting

The Research Network “FluResearchNet” and the National Research Platform for Zoonoses are pleased to announce the 3rd International Influenza Meeting 2012…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Advances in High Power Femtosecond Lasers

or nearly 20 years, the advantages of using ultrashort laser radiation have been known. Due to fact that the pulsed have been shortened extremely, very high…

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