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Studies and Analyses

Rebuilding Trust: Lessons from Recent High-Profile Transgressions

The scene has become all too familiar – the disgraced politician, chastened business leader or shamed celebrity standing before a podium offering up their…

Studies and Analyses

New Technologies Reveal Surprising Insights on Hominid Diets

By analyzing microscopic pits and scratches on hominid teeth, as well as stable isotopes of carbon found in teeth, researchers are getting a very different…

Materials Sciences

Nanoparticle Assembly: Building Blocks Like LEGOs

Travesset, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, writes in the journal's…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Team Connects Schizophrenia Genetics to Sound Processing

Now, three labs at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have come together using electrophysiological, anatomical, and…

Earth Sciences

New Study Reveals Heat Generation During Earthquakes

They report in a paper published in Science that because fault surfaces touch only at microscopic, scattered spots, these contacts are subject to intense…

Earth Sciences

Satellites Monitor Dying Tropical Systems in Eastern Pacific

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the eastern Pacific at 4:41 a.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 13, and captured an infrared image of Tropical Depression Irwin still in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Hubble Survey Reveals Dark Matter Insights

The distorted shapes in the cluster are distant galaxies from which the light is bent by the gravitational pull of an invisible material called dark matter…

Environmental Conservation

Future Forests: New Insights on Carbon Dioxide Absorption

As a result, they could help slow the pace of human-caused climate warming more than most scientists had thought, a U-M ecologist and his colleagues have…

Earth Sciences

NASA continues critical survey of Antarctica's changing ice

Researchers are flying a suite of scientific instruments on two planes from a base of operations in Punta Arenas, Chile: a DC-8 operated by NASA and a…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Early Autism Diagnosis and Interventions

“In the field, there’s this new excitement,” says Brooke Ingersoll of Michigan State University. “We’re starting to get a picture of what autism looks like in…

Studies and Analyses

Direct Access to Physical Therapists Cuts Costs and Visits

The study, published ahead of print September 23 in the journal Health Services Research (HSR), reviewed 62,707 episodes of physical therapy using non-Medicare…

Life & Chemistry

New Molecule Inhibits Allergic Reactions Without Side Effects

The therapy centers on a special molecule the researchers designed, a heterobivalent ligand (HBL), which when introduced into a person's bloodstream can, in…

Studies and Analyses

Tracking Vaccination Rates Through Twitter Insights

Marcel Salathé, an assistant professor of biology, studied how users of Twitter — a popular microblogging and social-networking service — expressed their…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers explore plankton's shifting role in deep sea carbon storage

In a study published this week in the journal Global Change Biology, SF State Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathon Stillman and colleagues show how…

Interdisciplinary Research

Robot Biologist Tackles Scientific Problems from Scratch

Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself.An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Vanderbilt…

Information Technology

SU Professor Highlights Android App WebView Concerns

Currently, in the Android market, 86 percent of the top 20 most downloaded apps in 10 diverse categories use WebView. With the goal of creating dynamic apps,…

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