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Life & Chemistry

New Compound Targets Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

These so-called superbugs are actually bacterial strains that produce an enzyme known as New Delhi metallo-â-lactamase (NDM-1). Bacteria that produce this…

Earth Sciences

Measuring Winter: New Tech for Snow Depth Accuracy

Equipped with specialized lasers and GPS technology, scientists are working to address a critical wintertime weather challenge: how to accurately measure the…

Machine Engineering

Takreer Chooses Siemens’ Zimpro System for Caustic Treatment

One of the advanced technologies that will help TAKREER meet environmental regulations, the WAO system will treat odorous sulfides and produce biodegradable…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Cancer Immunity: Chemotherapy Plus Antibody Innovation

An international team of scientists in Japan, Switzerland, and the United States has confirmed that combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer…

Health & Medicine

Neuron Memory Insights: New Hope for Chronic Pain Relief

For some, the pain is so great that they can’t even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every step is a deliberate and agonizing…

Communications Media

Lovelorn Liars: Uncovering Truth Through Language Clues

“Generally, people don't want to admit they've lied,” says Catalina Toma, communication science professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “But we don't…

Medical Engineering

UBC Researchers Uncover Sodium-Calcium Link to Heartbeat

Using the Canadian Light Source synchrotron, researchers from the University of British Columbia have revealed, for the first time, one of the molecular…

Life & Chemistry

Warmth Can Harm: Hypoxia Impact on Premature Baby Rats

Premature infants’ immature lungs and frequent dips in blood pressure make them especially vulnerable to a condition called hypoxia in which their tissues…

Health & Medicine

Unlocking Cognitive Insights in Brain-Injured Patients

Only by employing complex machine-learning techniques to decipher repeated advanced brain scans were researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell able to…

Studies and Analyses

Children with IBD Face School Challenges Due to Absences

“Both IBD and its treatment have the potential to disrupt school functioning,” said Wallace V. Crandall, MD, director of the Center for Pediatric and…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Globular Star Clusters: Insights from Ancient Massacres

These globular clusters are almost as old as the universe itself and hold valuable information on how the first generations of stars and galaxies formed. Now a…

Health & Medicine

Fructose Intake: No Link to Increased Blood Pressure, Study Finds

A new study has found that despite previous research showing blood pressure rose in humans immediately after they consumed fructose, there is no evidence…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Use Circadian Rhythms to Boost Pest Resistance

In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants' pest resistance, Rice University biologists have shown that plants both anticipate daytime raids by hungry…

Life & Chemistry

Radiation Treatment Turns Breast Cancer Cells Into Stem Cells

Now, researchers with the UCLA Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center report for the first time that radiation…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Factors That Shield LGBT Youth From Suicide

What protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youths from considering suicide and, conversely, what makes them most vulnerable to it? The…

Health & Medicine

Mixed progress made by US government and schools to improve food marketing influencing children's diets

New research has found that the US government and schools have made mixed progress to comprehensively address food and beverage marketing practices that put…

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