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Studies and Analyses

Juvenile Arthritis: Impact on Adult Employment Opportunities

Findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), suggest that functional disability impacts educational…

Studies and Analyses

Runners Boost Health and Performance with Less Training

Over the course of seven weeks, runners were able to improve performance on a 1500-metre run by 23 seconds and almost by a minute on a 5-km run – and this…

Physics & Astronomy

Hunting Exoplanets With Laser Rulers: A New Approach

This will help to find extra-solar planets, i.e. planets that are orbiting a star outside our solar-system. By refining this technology it might become…

Earth Sciences

Greenland's current loss of ice mass

The Greenland ice sheet continues to lose mass and thus contributes at about 0.7 millimeters per year to the currently observed sea level change of about 3 mm…

Physics & Astronomy

Ghostly Gamma-ray Beams Blast from Milky Way's Center

In contrast, the Milky Way's center shows little activity. But it wasn't always so peaceful. New evidence of ghostly gamma-ray beams suggests that the Milky…

Seminars Workshops

Torrefaction Workshop will take place as a Side Event at the EU BC&E 2012 in Milan

The event will present and discuss the development of the torrefaction technology and its market implementation. It will provide an overview about the first…

Life & Chemistry

It's in the Genes: Research Pinpoints How Plants Know When to Flower

Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduce successfully, involves a sequence of molecular events, a plant's circadian clock…

Power and Electrical Engineering

High-Speed Method to Aid Search for Solar Energy Storage Catalysts

Plants convert sunlight to chemical energy in the form of biomass, while releasing oxygen as an environmentally benign byproduct. Devising a similar process by…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Photograph Rare Sumatran Rabbit

Their pictures and other observations are reported in the current issue of Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation. The rare rabbit was first…

Event News

6th CFK-Valley Stade Convention, 12-13 June 2012 in Stade

To achieve production processes with high economic efficiency, short cycle times together with good controllability of the heating systems within a process…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Tumors Share Pro-Metastatic Info via Secret Vesicles

Cancer researchers have known for well over a century that different tumor types spread only to specific, preferred organs. But no one has been able to…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify Gene Linked to Rare Baby Disease

A rare disease which often first presents in newborn babies has been traced to a novel genetic defect, scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have…

Life & Chemistry

Tuatara’s Unique Chewing Technique Revealed by Scientists

Using a sophisticated computer model, scientists from UCL and the University of Hull demonstrate how the tuatara is able to slice its food like a “steak…

Life & Chemistry

New Safer Vaccine Development Method by OHSU Research Team

As explained in a newly published research paper, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., and colleagues have discovered a new method for creating vaccines that is thought to be…

Life & Chemistry

GW Researchers Discover Biomarker for Advanced Bile Duct Fibrosis and Bile Duct Cancer

GW Researchers, Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, and Paul Brindley, Ph.D., professor of…

Life & Chemistry

New Peptide Strategy Overcomes Resistant Leukemia and Lymphoma

Scientists at the Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center have developed an anti-cancer peptide that overcomes the stubborn resistance to chemotherapy…

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