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Life & Chemistry

Disease that stunts infants' growth traced to same gene that makes kids grow too fast

Published in the May 27 edition of the journal Nature Genetics, the UCLA findings could lead to new ways of blocking the rapid cell division that allows tumors…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Store Short Movies in Atomic Vapor Using Light Signals

And now light signals can be stored as patterns in a room-temperature vapor of atoms. Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (*) have stored not one but two…

Automotive Engineering

Johnson Controls forms new joint venture to integrate seating mechanisms capabilities in China

Johnson Controls, a global leader in automotive seating, overhead systems, door and instrument panels, and interior electronics, recently signed a contract…

Machine Engineering

Efficient access to device data via online configurator

The PIA Selector online configurator makes it easy to select and arrange correctly the order numbers of devices. It provides efficient access at all times to…

Environmental Conservation

Tracking Little Brown Bats: The Power of Chemical Fingerprinting

They're tiny creatures with glossy, chocolate-brown hair, out-sized ears and wings. They gobble mosquitoes and other insect pests during the summer and…

Earth Sciences

Historic Photos Reveal Greenland Ice Loss Insights

Researchers at the National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark – that country's federal agency responsible for surveys and mapping – had been storing the glass…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Copper-Nickel Nanowires: A Game Changer for Printable Electronics

Duke University chemists created a new set of flexible, electrically conductive nanowires from thin strands of copper atoms mixed with nickel. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Mathematicians Create Matter Waves With Invisibility Cloaks

Over the past five years mathematicians and other scientists have been working on devices that enable invisibility cloaks – perhaps not yet concealing Harry…

Environmental Conservation

Sandia Labs Technology Aids Fukushima Cleanup Efforts

“It's the kind of thing that sends a chill,” said Mark Rigali, manager of the geochemistry group at Sandia. “We've helped really make a difference in the…

Life & Chemistry

Antioxidant NAC Reduces Irritability in Autism, Study Finds

The antioxidant, called N-Acetylcysteine, or NAC, lowered irritability in children with autism as well as reducing the children's repetitive behaviors. The…

Health & Medicine

New Device Detects Bacteria Behind Eardrum with Precision

The research team, led by University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor Stephen Boppart, will publish their advance in the online Early…

Life & Chemistry

Study reveals how the world's first drug for amyloid disease works

Tafamidis, approved for use in Europe and currently under review by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is the first medication approved by a major…

Environmental Conservation

Cookstove Use Impacts Emissions: A New Study Revealed

How families in developing countries use their cookstoves has a big effect on emissions from those stoves, and laboratory emission tests don't accurately…

Earth Sciences

Typhoon Sanvu Peaks: NASA’s Infrared Capture Insights

NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Sanvu on May 25 at 1559 UTC (11:59 a.m. EDT) when Sanvu was around its peak. The image clearly…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Tropical Storm Beryl Off Carolina Coast

Tropical Storm Beryl formed off the Carolina coast on Friday, May 25 as “System 94L” and later that day became the second tropical storm of the Atlantic…

Health & Medicine

Injection of methotrexate not superior to oral therapy in juvenile arthritis treatment

A retrospective analysis of methotrexate (MTX) safety data found that injection of this disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) was not superior to oral…

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