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More Shrubbery Found in Warming World: New Study Insights

“For the first time, we've been able to map this change in detail, and it's because of the spatial resolution and length-of-record that you can get with…

Business and Finance

Humility: The Key to Effective Leadership Success

“Leaders of all ranks view admitting mistakes, spotlighting follower strengths and modeling teachability as being at the core of humble leadership,” says…

Life & Chemistry

Strong Actions Needed to Combat Antibiotic Resistance

The paper is an outgrowth of a meeting the group held at the Banbury Conference Centre in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to discuss the crisis and it appears in the…

Earth Sciences

Paleoclimate Insights Reveal Potential Rapid Climate Changes

By looking at how the Earth's climate responded to past natural changes, Hansen sought insight into a fundamental question raised by ongoing human-caused…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Pain in Kids: Rising Trends and Impact on Lives

Children who suffer from persistent or recurring chronic pain may miss school, withdraw from social activities, and are at risk of developing internalizing…

Earth Sciences

NASA Tracks Alenga’s Transformation Into Southern Cyclone

Alenga had grown from a tropical storm to a cyclone by 0300 UTC on Dec. 8 (10 p.m. EST, Dec. 7) when its maximum sustained winds reached 90 knots (103 mph/166…

Health & Medicine

Proteins Fail to Predict Herceptin Outcomes in HER2 Cancer

The finding, presented at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, represents a disappointment to oncologists who had hoped to find distinct…

Materials Sciences

Carnegie Mellon Uses NMR to Analyze Gold Nanoparticle Handedness

Their approach offers a significant advantage over routine methods for analyzing gold nanoparticles because it can determine whether the nanoparticles exist in…

Health & Medicine

Long-Term Effects of ALI: Depression and Physical Function

“Early identification and treatment of depressive states should be evaluated as a potential intervention to improve long-term outcomes in ALI survivors,” said…

Health & Medicine

Evaluating Latent TB Tests: Insights from Diverse Populations

“We compared commercially available tests for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in a diverse population with a low LTBI prevalence,” said James Mancuso, MD,…

Transportation and Logistics

More Boxcars for Midwesterners: Cleaner Air Through Efficiency

Much of that impact boils down to simple efficiency, according to Erica Bickford, a graduate student in UW–Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental…

Environmental Conservation

Solar Power Growth in US Southwest: Wildlife at Risk

Government agencies are considering scores of applications to develop utility-scale solar power installations in the desert Southwest of the United States, but…

Science Education

Human Rights and Education: Insights From Germany’s Education Server

An up-to-date dossier of the German Education Server and its partner ”Education Worldwide” delivers manifold information on the human right to education as…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals E. Coli Risks in Ready-to-Bake Cookie Dough

The investigation of a 2009 multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness, led…

Studies and Analyses

First Study Reveals Impact of Branded Apps on Consumers

A new research study co-authored by an Indiana University professor suggests that interactive applications for mobile phones such as Apple's iPhone and…

Studies and Analyses

Species Change: Insights from Darwin’s Landmark Study

“One of Darwin’s accomplishments was to show that species could change, that they were not the unaltered, immutable products of creation,” says Leonardo…

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