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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Groundwater Depletion in Semiarid Regions of Texas and California Threatens U.S. Food Security

The study, which appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, paints the highest resolution picture yet of how groundwater depletion…

Life & Chemistry

Speeding Up Biomedical Science: Mapping Biomolecules in Tissue

Biomedical scientists are dreaming of a technique showing the distribution of all the biomolecular constituents that make up biological tissue in…

Materials Sciences

Fraunhofer Enhances Thin Film Development with New Sputtering System

Impact Coatings has delivered an industrial a high-rate sputtering system, InlineCoater 300, to Fraunhofer. Fraunhofer is using the high throughput to increase…

Studies and Analyses

Working with Solvents Tied to Cognitive Problems for Less-Educated People

The thinking skills of people with more education were not affected, even if they had the same amount of exposure to solvents. “People with more education may…

Automotive Engineering

ITRI Launches Prototyping Prize for Connected Vehicle Innovations

Intelligent cars made possible by modern navigation and communication technologies are a popular topic with automotive manufacturers and customers alike….

Medical Engineering

New Mini-Sensor Simplifies Brain Magnetic Field Measurement

In future a new magnetic sensor the size of a sugar cube might simplify the measurement of brain activity. In the magnetically shielded room of…

Health & Medicine

Targeting tuberculosis 'hotspots' could have widespread benefit

An analysis of data from Rio de Janeiro showed that a reduction in TB infections within three high-transmission hotspots could reduce citywide transmission by…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Promises Earlier Detection of Bone Loss

Scientists at Arizona State University and NASA are taking on this medical challenge by developing and applying a technique that originated in the Earth…

Life & Chemistry

Hidden Flower Features: Key to Bee Survival Unveiled

Published today in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology, their research reveals that Velcro-like cells on plant petals play a crucial…

Studies and Analyses

Inequality Traced to Stone Age: New Evidence Emerges

Hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago in the early Neolithic era, with new evidence showing that farmers buried with tools had access to better land…

Studies and Analyses

1 size doesn't fit all when treating blood pressure in people with diabetes, VA/U-M study suggests

Aggressive efforts to lower blood pressure in people with diabetes are paying off – perhaps too well, according to a new study The research shows that there…

Studies and Analyses

Analyzing disease transmission at the community level

While it is established that immunity can be an important factor in the large-scale distribution of disease, this study demonstrates that local variation at…

Life & Chemistry

New Stem Cell Technique Boosts Heart Cell Production

Writing this week (May 28, 2012) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of Wisconsin scientists describes a way to transform human stem…

Studies and Analyses

NIH Study Explores Mobile Tech for Healthier Diet and Activity

The study results will appear Monday, May 28, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, with an accompanying commentary authored by William Riley, Ph.D., a…

Health & Medicine

Engineered Microvessels Create 3D Test Bed for Disease Research

University of Washington bioengineers have developed the first structure to grow small human blood vessels, creating a 3-D test bed that offers a better way to…

Life & Chemistry

U of M Study Reveals Titan Cells Shield Cryptococcus

Kirsten Nielsen, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of microbiology, and recent Ph.D. recipient Laura Okagaki believe their discovery could help…

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