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Physics & Astronomy

Multi-Purpose Photonic Chip: Advancing Programmable Quantum Processors

The Bristol researchers have, for the first time, shown that this remarkable phenomenon can be generated, manipulated and measured entirely on a tiny silica…

Environmental Conservation

Monitoring Lake Fauna: A New Approach to Biodiversity

Global biodiversity is plummeting while biologists are fighting to keep score and reliable monitoring of threatened animals remains a major challenge. The…

Health & Medicine

Penn Researchers Restore Immunity in Leukemia Patients Post-Chemotherapy

A new treatment using leukemia patients' own infection-fighting cells appears to protect them from infections and cancer recurrence following treatment with…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Immune Cells: New Method for Cord Blood Transplants

A new method to boost the number of immune cells in umbilical cord blood prior to cord blood transplants for cancer patients appears to lead to a quicker…

Health & Medicine

Cognitive Challenges for Breast Cancer Survivors: New Study Insights

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that there may be common and treatment-specific…

Health & Medicine

Advancements in Brain Signal Interpretation for Better Diagnosis

In turn, this may lead to considerable steps forward in terms of interpreting for example EEG measurements, making diagnoses and treatment of various brain…

Studies and Analyses

Alcohol can lead to unsafe sex: It's official

Unsafe sex is the most important pathway to HIV infection, and it is a main risk factor for the global burden of disease. Despite this knowledge, and…

Life & Chemistry

RUB Researchers Uncover Protein Roles in Astrocyte Development

How astrocytes, certain cells of the nervous system, are generated was largely unknown up to now. Bochum’s researchers have now investigated what influence the…

Interdisciplinary Research

Autonomous Minihelicopter Creates 3D Digital Models

Known as the quadrocopter, the aircraft uses the data to create a 3D digital model of its immediate surroundings. As reported in Pictures of the Future…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar-Powered Tech Upgrades Swiss Railroad Signaling Systems

In a contract scheduled to run until 2017, some 430 switch towers and over 9,000 signaling elements are to be upgraded in line with the European Train Control…

Health & Medicine

New Disinfection Technique Enhances Hospital Room Cleaning

“This is the future, because many hospital deaths are preventable with better cleaning methods,” says Dick Zoutman, who is also Quinte Health Care’s new Chief…

Earth Sciences

Greenland Ice Loss in 2010: GPS Tracks Bedrock Response

That’s the finding from a network of nearly 50 GPS stations planted along the Greenland coast to measure the bedrock’s natural response to the ever-diminishing…

Physics & Astronomy

Functionalized Graphene Oxide Enhances Oil-Well Drilling Fluids

The Rice University lab of chemist James Tour and scientists at M-I SWACO, a Texas-based supplier of drilling fluids and subsidiary of oil-services provider…

Health & Medicine

New advance announced in reducing 'bad' cholesterol

Scientists from the University of Leicester and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced a major advance towards developing drugs to…

Environmental Conservation

Law Enforcement: Key to Great Ape Conservation Success

Recent studies show that the populations of African great apes are rapidly decreasing. Many areas where apes occur are scarcely managed and weakly protected….

Life & Chemistry

Climate change driving tropical birds to higher elevations

The study, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, finds that the birds aren't migrating as rapidly as scientists previously…

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