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Physics & Astronomy

First Sounds of Mars and Venus Unveiled: A New Era in Space

Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of the sound of other planets. While most planetary probes have focused on imaging with cameras…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Find Slow Subsidence of Earth's Crust Beneath the Mississippi Delta

The Earth's crust beneath the Mississippi Delta sinks at a much slower rate than what had been assumed. That's one of the results geoscientists report today in…

Health & Medicine

Molecular Imaging Connects Inflammation to Depression Symptoms

New research published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine reveals that systemic inflammation causes an increase in depressive symptoms and…

Health & Medicine

Caloric moderation can reverse link between low birth weight and obesity, early study indicates

Because this is an early study, UCLA researchers do not recommend that mothers of low-birth weight infants start restricting their child's nutrition and…

Earth Sciences

Fertilizer Use Linked to Rising Nitrous Oxide Levels

The Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station in Tasmania, where air samples have been collected since 1978. These samples show a long-term trend in isotopic…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetically Modified Mice Visualize In Vivo Inflammation

One of the major routes of tumor cell dissemination to form metastasis at distant organs in the body is the lymphatic system. To study this process, still…

Studies and Analyses

Pesticides Induce Shape Changes in Vertebrates, Study Finds

The world’s most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to change shape, according to research published today in Ecological Applications. Rick…

Health & Medicine

Early PET Response to Chemo Linked to Better Sarcoma Survival

Prior studies by this multidisciplinary team of physician scientists at the Jonsson Cancer Center had shown that use of FDG PET/computed tomography (CT) could…

Health & Medicine

Scripps Florida Uncovers Insights on Age-Related Memory Loss

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not…

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French expertise in evidence at Counter Terror Expo 2012

The French Pavilion at Counter Terror Expo, at the Olympia exhibition centre, in London, will offer a unique environment in which professionals, manufacturers…

Physics & Astronomy

Organics Probably Formed Easily in Early Solar System

Fred Ciesla, assistant professor in geophysical sciences at UChicago, simulated the dynamics of the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust from which the sun…

Earth Sciences

Newly Discovered Foot Points to a New Kid on the Hominin Block

A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has announced the discovery of a partial foot skeleton with characteristics…

Physics & Astronomy

Paternity Test Fingers Earth as Moon’s Sole Parent

A new chemical analysis of lunar material collected by Apollo astronauts in the 1970s conflicts with the widely held theory that a giant collision between…

Health & Medicine

Writing the Book of Cancer Knowledge

The goal of cancer treatment is to match the right drug to the right target in the right patient. But before such “personalized” drugs can be developed, more…

Physics & Astronomy

Growing up Supermassive: A Black Hole's Diet of Stars

Using new calculations and previous observations of our own Milky Way and other galaxies, “we found black holes grow enormously as a result of sucking in…

Physics & Astronomy

South Pole Telescope Homes in on Dark Energy, Neutrinos

The results also are beginning to hone in on the masses of neutrinos, the most abundant particles in the universe, which until recently were thought to be…

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