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Life & Chemistry

Funding Plant Research: Key to Sustainable Future Innovation

“Today, we face growing and economically empowered nations, energy-intensive global economies, and major shifts in global climate that together constitute the…

Life & Chemistry

Silkmoth-Inspired Device Detects TNT with Nanotube Precision

Made up of a silicon microcantilever bearing nearly 500,000 aligned titanium dioxide nanotubes, this device can detect concentrations of trinitrotoluene (TNT)…

Health & Medicine

Over 90% of ED Patients Show Complexity After CT of Abdomen

Increasing clinical evidence has validated the utility of CTAP in a variety of clinical settings. As a result, the utilization of CTAP has increased in recent…

Studies and Analyses

Guidance Needed for Smart Fish Consumption Choices

In a first-of-its kind summary of fish consumption choices, a team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital has determined that consumers are not…

Technology Offerings

Mikropumpe Ohne Mechanische Teile: Innovative Fluidströmung

Die erfindungsgemäße Mikro- bzw. Nanopumpe kommt vollkommen ohne bewegliche mechanische Komponenten aus. Das zu fördernde Fluid selbst wird als Arbeits- bzw….

Physics & Astronomy

Methane on Mars: What It Really Means for Life

It was a sensation when scientists discovered methane in Mars’ atmosphere nine years ago. Many saw the presence of the gas as a clear indication of life on the…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on San Andreas Fault Activity in Santa Cruz

San Andreas Fault in Santa Cruz Mountains – large quakes more frequent than previously thoughtRecent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing…

Health & Medicine

Understanding the links between inflammation and chronic disease

American parents may want to think again about how much they want to protect their children from everyday germs.A new Northwestern University study done in…

Health & Medicine

Saliva Protein Offers New Insights for Sepsis Diagnosis

Blood poisoning, or sepsis, affects about 0.2 percent of the population. It is a serious condition that can lead to septic shock, one of the most common causes…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bark Beetles and Wildfire: New Insights from Recent Study

Previously published studies reported a wide variety of—and often contradictory—conclusions about the bark beetles' effect on fuels and wildfire.A team of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Time is ticking for some crop's wild relatives

A botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also…

Earth Sciences

Landslides and Plate Tectonics Shape Steep Mountain Terrain

The work, presented online May 27 in Nature Geoscience, shows that once the angle of a slope exceeds 30 degrees – whether from uplift, a rushing stream carving…

Health & Medicine

Kids’ Eating Habits: The Impact of Healthy Choices

The study, which appears in a recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is one of a few that focuses on the eating habits of low-income…

Studies and Analyses

Marriage Study Reveals Insights on Happiness Levels

Their study, online in the Journal of Research in Personality, finds that although matrimony does not make people happier than they were when they were single,…

Health & Medicine

Younger Colon Cancer Patients Face Worse Prognosis, Study Finds

The study was led by Edith Mitchell, M.D., a clinical professor in the Department of Medical Oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson…

Business and Finance

The King of Retail: New Study Shows Symbiotic Relationship Between Major Retailers and Suppliers

A new study by supply-chain researchers at the University of Arkansas shows that the relationship between major retailers such as Walmart and Target and their…

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