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Business and Finance

RUB Researchers Advance Spectral Analysis for Complex Processes

A milestone in the description of complex processes – for example the ups and downs of share prices – has been reached by mathematicians at the…

Life & Chemistry

Intestinal Stem Cells Adapt to Food by Enlarging the Gut

A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body…

Social Sciences

7 billion people are not the issue – human development is what counts

Any realistic attempt to achieve sustainable development must focus primarily on the human wellbeing and be founded on an understanding of the inherent…

Earth Sciences

Prehistoric Greenhouse Data from Ocean Floor Could Predict Earth’s Future

New research from the University of Missouri indicates that Atlantic Ocean temperatures during the greenhouse climate of the Late Cretaceous Epoch were…

Health & Medicine

Breakthroughs in Drug Therapy for Inherited Kidney Disease

Over 600,000 people in the U.S., and 12 million worldwide, are affected by the inherited kidney disease known as autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease…

Studies and Analyses

California’s 2.5M Kids at Risk from Secondhand Smoke Exposure

Using data from several cycles of the California Health Interview Survey, the study's authors estimate that 561,000 children are directly exposed to secondhand…

Health & Medicine

Molecular Sensors Linked to Autoimmune Disease: Bruce Beutler Insights

Bruce Beutler, MD, a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine, has coauthored an article describing a novel molecular mechanism that can cause the body…

Health & Medicine

Cytokines and Autoimmune Diseases: Insights from Experts

Leading experts in the field of cytokine research present their most up-to-date findings and unique perspectives on the role of cytokines in autoimmune…

Health & Medicine

Poorer countries, countries that spend little on health-care have worse stroke outcomes

They are also more likely to die from a stroke within 30 days, have a stroke at a younger age or have a hemorrhagic stroke – a more severe type caused by a…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancing Optical Info Transfer with Single Photons

A research team at the University of Alberta wants to refine the optical transmission of information by using a single photon, the fundamental building block…

Physics & Astronomy

Unbalancing Nothingness: Insights from Top Physicists

Nothingness – this is the research subject-matter of a team of theoretical physicists from the Universities Jena (Germany) and Graz (Austria). “The ground…

Physics & Astronomy

New Concept for Ultrafast Lasers Developed by RUB Scientists

Electrical engineers in Bochum have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers. The researchers make clever use of the intrinsic…

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Acidification: Challenges Facing Tropical Ecosystems

By burning fossil fuels, humans release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is then absorbed by the oceans where it reacts with water to form…

Life & Chemistry

New Oncolytic Virus Shows Improved Effectiveness In Preclinical Testing

Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC –…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Growth Enhanced by Specific Copper Crystal Structures

By combining data from several imaging techniques, the team found that the quality of graphene depends on the crystal structure of the copper substrate it…

Physics & Astronomy

Galaxy Collision Rate Revealed: Insights on Evolution

The galaxy merger rate is one of the fundamental measures of galaxy evolution, yielding clues to how galaxies bulked up over time through encounters with other…

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