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Life & Chemistry

Discover the New Air-Like Material: Stability Meets Flexibility

Delicate and translucent as a puff of air, yet mechanically stable, flexible, and possessing amazing heat-insulation properties—these are the properties of a…

Awards Funding

ARRI and Fraunhofer Win Technical Oscar for Innovation

Each year, the “Academy Award of Merit” honors personalities who are responsible for a technical achievement which “has demonstrably contributed to improving…

Environmental Conservation

UMass Amherst Ecologists Record Deep-Sea Fish Sounds

With recording technology now more affordable, Rodney Rountree, Francis Juanes and colleagues are exploring the idea that many fish make sounds to communicate…

Health & Medicine

Research finds newer radiation therapy technology improves patients' quality of life

Patients with head and neck cancers who have been treated with newer, more sophisticated radiation therapy technology enjoy a better quality of life than those…

Life & Chemistry

IRCM Researchers Spark Debate on Phosphorylation in Biology

Dr. François Robert, molecular biology researcher at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), and his team confirmed that the phosphorylation…

Life & Chemistry

Seawater’s Impact on Nuclear Fuel: New Corrosion Insights

But Navrotsky and others have since discovered a new way in which seawater can corrode nuclear fuel, forming uranium compounds that could potentially travel…

Event News

Enhancing Automotive Design with Lightweight Construction Materials

Lightweight construction materials pose a particular challenge for calculations engineers and developers in the automotive industry. Which data is needed for…

Health & Medicine

URMC Finds Leukemia Cells Are “Bad to the Bone”

The research, led by graduate student Benjamin J. Frisch in the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center laboratory of corresponding author Laura M. Calvi, M.D., is…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Research Scientists Illuminate Cancer Cells’ Survival Strategy During Dangerous Dissemination

A cell that breaks away from the primary tumor and finds itself in the alien environment of the bloodstream or a new organ, normally is destroyed by a process…

Environmental Conservation

Innovative Mangrove-Hammock Boundaries in Florida’s Coast

The key to understanding how future hurricanes and sea level rise may trigger changes to South Florida's native coastal forests lurks below the surface,…

Studies and Analyses

Mouse Moms’ Multiple Births Linked to Weight Gain Issues

A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four times…

Business and Finance

Oil Prices and Economy: Insights from Top Scientists

That's the message from two scientists, one from the University of Washington and one from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who say in the…

Earth Sciences

Detecting Coral Reef Change: Insights from Ocean Ecology

But Cousteau was right. During the following three-plus decades, Dustan, an ocean ecologist and biology professor at the University of Charleston in South…

Social Sciences

Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Sports and Skills

Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and do not get into mischief…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s AIRS Instrument Tracks Tropical Storm Iggy’s Growth

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument provided an infrared snapshot of Iggy's cloud top temperatures on January 26, 2012 at 0611 UTC (1:11 a.m….

Health & Medicine

Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings

The review showed, for example, that for every 50-year-old woman whose life is prolonged by mammography, dozens are treated unnecessarily — some with harmful…

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