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Life & Chemistry

UI Professor Identifies Largest Known Crocodile

“It’s the largest known true crocodile,” says Christopher Brochu, associate professor of geoscience. “It may have exceeded 27 feet in length. By comparison,…

Transportation and Logistics

Connected Traffic System for Emergency Responders is Demonstrated in Arizona

The north Maricopa Valley community is the test site for a new, federally-funded and state-supported traffic management system that, if successful, would not…

Health & Medicine

Scarring Cells Turn Inactive as Liver Heals, Study Finds

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report that significant numbers of…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Drug May Combat Leading Cause of Blindness

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered that a drug already prescribed to millions of people with diabetes could also have…

Environmental Conservation

Taking America's Rarest Snake Back to the Woods

On May 1, USDA Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Memphis Zoo, and other partners released…

Life & Chemistry

Human Brain Development Dates Back Earlier Than Expected

These appeared much earlier in the hominin family tree than was originally thought, as anthropologists from the University of Zurich who re-examined the Taung…

Studies and Analyses

Some HDL, or 'good' cholesterol, may not protect against heart disease

This is the first study to show that a small protein, apolipoprotein C-III (apoC-III), that sometimes resides on the surface of HDL cholesterol may increase…

Environmental Conservation

Beaches Eroding: 70% Loss on Kauai, Oahu, and Maui

Scientists from the USGS and the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at UH studied more than 150 miles of island coastline (essentially…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Show How Memory B Cells Stay 'In Class' to Fight Different Infections

The finding opens the way for the development of vaccines that can work more efficiently and hints at therapies for conditions in which B cells cause harm—such…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Planets in Other Systems Likely to Be Alone

“Hot Jupiters” are giant planets beyond our solar system, roughly the size of Jupiter but orbiting close to their parent stars and thus much hotter than the…

Health & Medicine

Long Commutes Linked to Health Risks: What You Need to Know

As populations move even further away from urban centers, more people spend longer hours behind the wheel on their way to and from work. While sedentary…

Health & Medicine

H1N1 Discovery Advances Universal Flu Vaccine Research

Each year, seasonal influenza causes serious illnesses in three to five million people and 200,000 to 500,000 deaths. The 2009 H1N1 pandemic killed more than…

Event News

Neuroscientists Unveil Latest Research Insights in Potsdam

It was organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and the Otto-von-Guericke…

Awards Funding

Deutsche Telekom Launches New Program for Startups in Berlin

Deutsche Telekom is pushing its partnering campaign and increasingly relies on new, creative ideas from startups alongside its own innovations: in order to…

Automotive Engineering

Spring element made of low-emission DuPont™ Delrin® acts as buffer during steering column adjustment

Decisive factors in its specification were the material's compliance with stringent emission levels demanded by some of Germany's automotive OEMs for interior…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Atom-Level Innovation: Laser Pulse and Ionization

When an intense laser pulse interacts with an atom it generates agitation on the micro scale. A rather likely outcome of this interaction is single ionization,…

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