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Earth Sciences

Satellite Research Shows Smaller Volcanoes May Cool Climate

Adam Bourassa, from the U of S Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, led the research. He explains that until now it was thought that a massively…

Health & Medicine

miR Loss Fuels Malignant Transformation in Chronic Leukemia

The findings come from a new study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J….

Health & Medicine

Jekyll and Hyde Bacteria: A Dual Role in Health and Disease

In the current issue of Science, Michigan State University researchers led a study that revealed how a bacteria flips a DNA switch to go from an upstanding…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Muscle-Like Action Allows Camera to Mimic Eye Movement

Key to the new control system is a piezoelectric cellular actuator that uses a novel biologically inspired technology that will allow a robot eye to move more…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Looking at Future Dengue Forecast Find Intricate Relationships Between Mosquitoes, Virus and Climate Change

But after careful study of the disease’s characteristics, the mosquitoes that carry it and future climate change, two researchers at Texas Tech University said…

Environmental Conservation

Eddies, Not Sunlight, Spur Annual Bloom of Tiny Plants in North Atlantic

For decades, scientists have known that springtime brings the longer days and calmer seas that force phytoplankton near the surface, where they get the…

Life & Chemistry

Cedars-Sinai, global consortium develop stem cell tool to test Huntington’s treatments

Cedars-Sinai scientists, in collaboration with expert colleagues around the globe, used stem cells to re-create Huntington’s Disease in a petri dish, allowing…

Earth Sciences

Record-Breaking Drought Spans Across the U.S.

More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the…

Life & Chemistry

When Anxiety Won’t Go Away

In experiments they showed that feelings of anxiety don’t subside if too little dynorphin is released into the brain. The results can help open up new paths in…

Studies and Analyses

Child Diabetes Rates Surge in China, Study Reveals Insights

The study led by Barry Popkin, Ph.D., W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Chinese…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Bioengineers Find Single Cancer Cell Produces 5 Daughters

It's well known in conventional biology that during the process of mammalian cell division, or mitosis, a mother cell divides equally into two daughter cells….

Earth Sciences

Life's molecules could lie within reach of Mars Curiosity rover

The new findings, which suggest optimal depths and locations to probe for organic molecules like those that compose living organisms as we know them, could…

Physics & Astronomy

Search for Higgs boson at Large Hadron Collider reveals new particle

Hundreds of scientists and graduate students from American institutions have played important roles in the search for the Higgs at the LHC. More than 1,700…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers discover Houdini-like vanishing act in space

“It's like the classic magician's trick — now you see it, now you don't,” said Carl Melis, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego and lead author of the…

Physics & Astronomy

OU Physicists Collaborate on Groundbreaking Higgs Boson Discovery

Professors Patrick Skubic, Mike Strauss, Brad Abbott and Phillip Gutierrez, OU College of Arts and Sciences, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and…

Life & Chemistry

Antibodies reverse type 1 diabetes in new immunotherapy study

The findings, published online ahead of print (June 29, 2012) in the journal Diabetes, suggest for the first time that using a short course of immunotherapy…

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