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Earth Sciences

Geologic map of Jupiter's moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface

More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has…

Health & Medicine

Global Snakes’ Poison Resistance: New Insights Unveiled

The finding, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, greatly increases scientists' understanding of the genetic basis of…

Life & Chemistry

University of Alberta Research Reveals Memory Encoding Insights

Scientists understand memory to exist as strengthened synaptic connections among neurons. However components of synaptic membranes are relatively short-lived…

Physics & Astronomy

New Findings Challenge Astrophysical Models of the Universe

In a challenge to current astrophysical models of the universe, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories Z machine and the University of Rostock in Germany…

Health & Medicine

Newborn Screening for DMD: Promising International Model

As a model for NBS, the approach published online in January in the Annals of Neurology provides evidence that this approach could be implemented if approved…

Studies and Analyses

Circadian Rhythms Impact Metabolic Output, UCI Study Finds

By analyzing the hundreds of metabolic products present in the liver, researchers with the UC Irvine Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism have discovered that…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Blueprint to Combat Hepatitis C Virus Unveiled

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have produced the first high resolution structure of a molecule that when attached to the genetic material…

Environmental Conservation

New Solution Discovered to Combat Global Overfishing

A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian…

Studies and Analyses

MIT Study Finds Ample Capacity for CO2 Storage Underground

A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of…

Transportation and Logistics

A biplane to break the sound barrier

For 27 years, the Concorde provided its passengers with a rare luxury: time saved. For a pricey fare, the sleek supersonic jet ferried its ticketholders from…

Earth Sciences

NASA satellites see rainfall left behind from Cyclone Lua's landfall

On Saturday, March 17, 2012, Lua's center crossed the Australia coastline at Pardoo about 3 p.m. (local time/Australia) bringing winds gusting up to 155 mph…

Health & Medicine

New genetic path for scleroderma

A genetic pathway previously known for its role in embryonic development and cancer has been identified as a target for systemic sclerosis, or scleroderma,…

Earth Sciences

Fundamental Steps Needed Now in Global Redesign of Earth System Governance

Some 32 social scientists and researchers from around the world, including a Senior Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State University, have concluded that…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultracold Experiments Heat Up Quantum Research

This ultracold state, called “quantum criticality,” hints at similarities between such diverse phenomena as the gravitational dynamics of black holes or the…

Health & Medicine

Food Stamps and Farmers' Markets

Record numbers of Americans are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, as food stamps are now known, and many SNAP participants…

Earth Sciences

Increase in Arctic Shipping Is Risk to Marine Mammals

A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region’s marine mammals and the…

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