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Physics & Astronomy

Study jointly led by UCSB researcher supports theory of extraterrestrial impact

The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage of materials, including nanodiamonds, impact spherules, and more, which, according to the researchers, are the…

Health & Medicine

Tonsils Make T-Cells, Too, Ohio State Study Shows

A new study provides evidence that a critical type of immune cell can develop in human tonsils. The cells, called T lymphocytes, or T cells, have been thought…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Venus: Unraveling Space Weather Mysteries

Yet the planets differ dramatically: Venus is some 100 times hotter than Earth and its days more than 200 times longer. The atmosphere on Venus is so thick…

Medical Engineering

The whole picture with one sweep. New syngo DynaCT 360 software …

Siemens Healthcare presents a new feature for Artis zeego, the only interventional imaging system on the market utilizing robotic technology. Thanks to the…

Studies and Analyses

High Blood Glucose Linked to Kidney Disease in Seniors

Elderly people with the metabolic syndrome—defined as having multiple risk factors associated with developing diabetes and heart disease—had an increased risk…

Life & Chemistry

Balancing Risks and Benefits of New H5N1 Virus Research

In a pair of commentaries, researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and the University of Michigan argue their different views of how to…

Earth Sciences

NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Irina getting loopy

Irina is making a cyclonic loop, something that a tropical cyclone does on occasion whenever there are a couple of weather systems that push it in different…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Higher Mortality in Women

The majority of institutionalized elderly female patients are vitamin D deficient and there is an inverse association of vitamin D deficiency and mortality,…

Event News

Next generation sequencing conference in Münster, Germany

Innovative next generation sequencing technologies: 150 scientists from all over the world will meet on March 8-9, 2012 to exchange most recent developments on…

Environmental Conservation

Dung Beetle Diversity: Impact on Florida Livestock Health

Dung beetles are important to healthy cattle pasture ecosystems as they provide for nutrient recycling, removal of waste products from the soil surface and…

Life & Chemistry

Microneedle Vaccine Patch Enhances Flu Protection Through Skin Cells

A new, detailed analysis of the early immune responses by the Emory and Georgia Tech research team helps explain why the skin is such fertile ground for…

Health & Medicine

Blood pressure drug effective for treating PTSD-related nightmares

In a presentation during the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry in Prague, Mayo Clinic psychiatrists will present a systematic literature review of prazosin…

Physics & Astronomy

The worldfs fastest Y-00 stream cipher transmission at 40 Gbit/sec over 120 km

Y-00 is a physical cipher that has a possibility to avoid the decipher and hence it is a promising candidate to realize secure networks. The key to success of…

Life & Chemistry

Insights into side effects of thalidomide using magnetic nanoparticles

Hiroshi Hanada describes his research on magnetic particles for biomedicine in a video interview in the latest Feb 2012 issue of Tokyo Tech’s on line…

Life & Chemistry

Molecule Cdk1 Boosts Mammalian Egg Maturation for IVF Success

Now researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have identified a molecule called Cdk1 that has an important function for mammalian egg maturation. In…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Into Cloud Formation and Energy Disposal

Erika Sundén, researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has studied how extremely small cloud particles can dispose of excess energy. This knowledge…

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