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Nordic Walking Boosts Health for Heart Failure Patients

The research was presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, 19-22 May, in Belgrade, Serbia. The Congress is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure…

Health & Medicine

Heart Damage in Obese Adolescents: Key Findings from 2012 Congress

The findings were presented at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, 19-22 May, in Belgrade, Serbia. The Congress is the main annual meeting of the Heart Failure…

Health & Medicine

Folic Acid Linked to Lower Risk of Childhood Cancers

Incidence reductions were found for Wilms' tumor, a type of kidney cancer, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), a type of brain cancer.Since 1998, the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

LEDs on Silicon: Cutting Production Costs in Lighting Tech

For the first time ever, researchers at the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors were able to successfully produce gallium nitride LED chips on a…

Physics & Astronomy

Volkswagen Foundation Funds Quantum Computing Materials Project

The Volkswagen Foundation is financing a materials science project being conducted jointly by the universities in Mainz and Osnabrück in collaboration with the…

Life & Chemistry

Biologists Produce Potential Malarial Vaccine from Algae

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by infection with protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium. It affects more than 225 million people worldwide…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Unveils Hidden Insights in DNA Code

Geneticists faced a similar problem with the recent discovery of a “sixth nucleotide” in the DNA alphabet. Two modifications of cytosine, one of the four bases…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Listening to Chickens Could Improve Poultry Production

Researchers now believe that such avian expressiveness may be more than idle chatter. A collaborative project being conducted by the Georgia Institute of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UW Plant Breeders Develop an Even Heart-Healthier Oat

“The biggest thing that stands out about this new variety, BetaGene, is that it’s both a high yielding variety and high in beta glucan. Beta glucan is a…

Life & Chemistry

In Chemical Reactions, Water Adds Speed Without Heat

Led by Manos Mavrikakis, the Paul A. Elfers professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Flemming Besenbacher,…

Life & Chemistry

Synthetic Scent Hounds: A New Approach to Airport Security

To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low concentrations of explosives easily and reliably. Despite the development…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Lossless Electricity: Innovations in Solar and Wind

Wind parks in the North Sea, plans for enormous solar power plants in North Africa: whilst the technologies for alternative power production are making huge…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Insights: Unlocking Secrets of Psychiatric Disorders

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have shown that zebrafish could be used to study the underlying causes of psychiatric disorders.The study,…

Health & Medicine

Fighting bacteria's strength in numbers

Researchers in the University’s School of Molecular Medical Sciences have shown for the first time that the effectiveness of the bacteria’s communication…

Studies and Analyses

Could cap and trade for water solve problems facing the United States' largest rivers?

To solve this imbalance scientists are proposing a Cap and Trade system of interstate water trading. The proposal, published in Journal of the American Water…

Health & Medicine

Hybrid Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing Breast Cancer Recurrence

A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve…

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