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Environmental Conservation

Researchers Highlight New CO2 Removal Techniques for Climate Stability

Emerging techniques to pull carbon dioxide from the air and store it away to stabilize the climate may become increasingly important as the planet tips into a…

Health & Medicine

Yoga reduces stress; now it's known why

Six months ago, researchers at UCLA published a study that showed using a specific type of yoga to engage in a brief, simple daily meditation reduced the…

Health & Medicine

Human papillomavirus types do not replace others after large-scale vaccination

A UNC-led international team of scientists studied this question in a group of 2228 Kenyan men as a “nested” trial in a larger trial. Their first paper in the…

Environmental Conservation

Spillways: Diverting Sand to Rebuild Wetlands Effectively

A team of civil engineers and geologists from the University of Illinois, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, published their findings in…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Drug Candidates: Solubility Solutions from UW-Madison

Many drug candidates fail because of low solubility or poor pharmacokinetic behavior. Ron Raines and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (USA)…

Earth Sciences

GPS Can Now Measure Ice Melt, Change in Greenland Over Months Rather Than Years

The study, published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, hints at the potential for GPS to detect many…

Studies and Analyses

Polar Bear Evolution Tracked Climate Change, Study Suggests

The international study, led by the Pennsylvania State University and the University at Buffalo, found evidence that the size of the polar bear population…

Life & Chemistry

How a Common Fungus Knows When to Attack

The fungus, known for causing yeast and other minor infections, also causes a sometimes-fatal infection known as candidemia in immunocompromised patients. An…

Health & Medicine

Advancing Knee Health: Virtual Models of Joint Tissue Study

A Cleveland Clinic research team is developing virtual models of human knee joints to better understand how tissues and their individual cells react to heavy…

Medical Engineering

Undergrads Develop Cell Phone Screener for Anemia Detection

That's the goal of Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduates who've developed a noninvasive way to identify women with this dangerous blood disorder…

Studies and Analyses

Red Potato Chips: How Segmentation Cues Reduce Food Intake

Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell University researchers may have found a novel way to…

Information Technology

'Control-Alt-Hack' game lets players try their hand at computer security

Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by University of Washington computer scientists.”Control-Alt-Hack”…

Life & Chemistry

Mount Sinai Finds New Vaccine Target in Neutrophil Cells

White blood cells called neutrophils, which are the first line of defense against infection, play an unexpected role by boosting antibody production, according…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Links Genes, Drugs, and Scientists Together

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will make it easier for scientists to identify and prioritize…

Life & Chemistry

Hitting back at 'wiretapping' parasite

Plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, have now shown that they can make plants resistant to dodder by attacking the junctions where the…

Environmental Conservation

Tropical Plankton Invade Arctic Waters: A New Era in Marine Life

For the first time, scientists have identified tropical and subtropical species of marine protozoa living in the Arctic Ocean. Apparently, they traveled…

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