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Health & Medicine

UCSF Researchers Critique New Lipid Screening Guidelines for Kids

Recent guidelines recommending cholesterol tests for children fail to weigh health benefits against potential harms and costs, according to a new commentary…

Studies and Analyses

Finding Joy: Life with Trisomy 13 and 18 in Families

Children with trisomy 13 or 18, who are for the most part severely disabled and have a very short life expectancy, and their families lead a life that is happy…

Architecture & Construction

Crossing the Gap: Civil Engineers Develop Improved Method for Detecting, Measuring Bridge Damage

Hayder Rasheed, associate professor of civil engineering, and Yacoub Najjar, professor of civil engineering, are collaborating to better detect and measure…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Read Monkeys’ Inner Thoughts

But over the past 30 years, researchers have discovered that clear information can be obtained by decoding the activity of large populations of neurons.Now,…

Physics & Astronomy

Hot Nuclear Matter Featured in Science

With details that help enlighten our understanding of the hot nuclear matter that permeated the early universe, the article is a prelude to the latest findings…

Life & Chemistry

Unique Mechanism Identified in Bacteria as Potential Target for Developing New Antibiotics

The results of these findings were published in an article titled “Novel One-step Mechanism for tRNA 3’-End Maturation by the Exoribonuclease RNase of…

Environmental Conservation

Key to Life in the Desert: What New Research Reveals About the Importance of Soil Crusts

The hope for restoring these arid environments and preventing further desertification may exist on the surface of the desert itself, according to new research…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Ultracapacitor Delivers a Jolt of Energy at a Constant Voltage

An alternative energy storage device called an ultracapacitor can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times without degrading, but ultracapacitors have their…

Life & Chemistry

Dissecting 10,000 Fruit-Fly Larvae: Key Research Insights

What do you get when you dissect 10 000 fruit-fly larvae? A team of researchers led by the EMBL- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in the UK and the…

Environmental Conservation

Leopard Photo from 2004 Camera Trap Surfaces Again

The photo, taken by Indian photographer Vinay S. Kumar, was initially submitted to Conservation India, a not-for-profit portal to enable conservation action….

Health & Medicine

Nerve Stimulation Aids Brain Reorganization, Study Reveals

In a related paper, UT Dallas neuroscientists showed that they could alter the speed at which the brain works in laboratory animals by pairing stimulation of…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Benefits: Why Heart Failure Clinics Are Underused

Outpatient heart failure (HF) clinics that provide patient education on ways to manage heart failure and risk factors, prescribe home-based exercises, and…

Health & Medicine

Moderate Alcohol Intake Linked to Lower Kidney Cancer Risk

In published prospective cohort studies, the risk for such cancer among moderate drinkers is usually about 25% less than the risk seen among non-drinkers. This…

Health & Medicine

Menu Labeling Boosts Healthier Choices at Chain Restaurants

The recent Supreme Court decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has cleared the way for national requirements about posting nutritional…

Environmental Conservation

Global CO2 emissions continue to increase

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the main cause of global warming – increased by 3% last year, reaching an all-time high of 34 billion tonnes in…

Life & Chemistry

Strategies to improve renewable energy feedstocks …

To enable greater reliance on renewable biomass resources for power generation, combination approaches such as co-firing of high percentages of biomass with…

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