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Studies and Analyses

New Screening Method For Sudden Death Risk In Athletes

The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center study, presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography, suggests adding…

Life & Chemistry

Mediterranean Weed-Based Drug Targets Tumor Cells in Mice

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, working with Danish researchers, have developed a novel anticancer drug designed to travel — undetected…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Unite for Coral Reefs: New Climate Consensus

Today their efforts received a big boost with the release of a Scientific Consensus Statement on Climate Change and Coral Reefs that is supported by over 2,600…

Physics & Astronomy

Improving Predictions with Complete Information Insights

Many of the predictions we make in everyday life are vague, and we often get them wrong because we have incomplete information, such as when we predict the…

Life & Chemistry

Small molecule may play big role in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is one of the most dreaded and debilitating illnesses one can develop. Currently, the disease afflicts 6.5 million Americans and the…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Create “MRI” of the Sun’s Interior Motions

The result, which appears in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, upends our understanding of how heat is transported outwards by…

Studies and Analyses

Long-Term Hormone Treatment Boosts Rat Brain Synapses

The new findings appear to contradict the results of the Women’s Health Initiative, a long-term study begun in 1991 to analyze the effects of hormone therapy…

Life & Chemistry

New Technology Unveils Protein Structures with Precision

The specific structure of a protein is stabilized by numerous hydrogen bonds that connect individual amino acids. Using an innovative method, namely Nuclear…

Earth Sciences

NASA Analyzes Twin Hurricanes in Eastern Pacific Storms

NASA's TRMM satellite passed over both storms in pinpointed the intensity of the rainfall within each storm, indicative of their power. Emilia is dropping rain…

Studies and Analyses

Cancer screening rates comparable for those with and without rheumatoid arthritis

New research reveals that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients do not receive fewer cancer screening tests than the general population. Results of the study,…

Studies and Analyses

Sleep More to Lose Weight: Exploring the Link to Obesity

In recent years an increasing number of epidemiological studies have found a relationship between how long we sleep for and obesity as well as type 2 diabetes,…

Health & Medicine

Federally funded clinics for low-income patients as effective as private practices

The federal government has committed $11 billion to expand the operating capacity of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which receive federal funding…

Environmental Conservation

Copper’s Impact: Salmon More Vulnerable to Predators

Minute amounts of copper from brake linings and mining operations can affect salmon to where they are easily eaten by predators, says a Washington State…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Linked to Melanoma Uncovered by Zurich Researchers

Despite intensive research, however, there is still no treatment. Researchers from the University of Zurich have now discovered a gene that plays a central…

Transportation and Logistics

Driving Innovation in Transport: Boosting SMEs Effectively

What can be done to improve innovation in Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the transport sector? How does innovation spread into the market? What…

Information Technology

FIFA Approves GoalRef: Smart Goal Technology for Football

In its meeting of Thursday 5th July 2012 the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body which determines the laws of the game, approved both…

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