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Bernstein Award 2011: Honoring Henning Sprekeler’s Research

The Bernstein Award 2011 goes to Dr. Henning Sprekeler, scientist at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). He was able to convince an international jury through…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Long Bone Shape: Insights from Paleoanthropology

PhD student Naoki Morimoto, member of the Computer-Assisted Paleoanthropology group of Ch. Zollikofer and M. Ponce de León, and junior author of the study, was…

Earth Sciences

Rising CO2 levels at end of Ice Age not tied to Pacific Ocean

But a new study using detailed radiocarbon dating of foraminifera found in a sediment core from the Gorda Ridge off Oregon reveals that the Northeast Pacific…

Life & Chemistry

Factor in keeping “good order” of genes and preventing disease discovered by Hebrew University, Swiss scientists

The researchers found that the lamin filamentous network is an essential element in this proper positioning, the lack of which can cause specific diseases….

Life & Chemistry

Understanding the recycling of matter through research on biological metabolism

Heading the Advanced NMR Metabomics Research Team in the Metabolomics Research Division at the RIKEN Plant Science Center, Jun Kikuchi is engaged in analyzing…

Life & Chemistry

New Advances in Computational Experiments: ROA Spectra Unveiled

An international research team has described the first calculations of Raman optical activity (ROA) spectra using coupled-cluster theory – one of the most…

Life & Chemistry

Researcher Uses Nanoparticles to Make DNA Analysis 1,000 Times Faster

This development could contribute to many areas of health care and law enforcement, including diagnosing and treating disease, developing and testing new…

Information Technology

Efficient Ethernet switches connect automation networks to the company's IT system

The SCALANCE-X-500 switches are especially suitable for configuring large automation networks and connecting them to the company's IT system. Typical areas of…

Studies and Analyses

Job Discrimination Study: Openly Gay Men Face Interview Bias

The study, which is the largest of its kind to look at job discrimination against gay men, found that employers in the South and Midwest were much less likely…

Health & Medicine

Tuberculosis bacterium's outer cell wall disarms the body's defense to remain infectious

Researchers found that the TB bacterium has a molecule on its outer surface called lipomannan that can stop production of an important protein in the body’s…

Environmental Conservation

Study reveals how gas, temperature controlled bacterial response to Deepwater Horizon spill

The results of their research are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study was led by David Valentine, a geochemist and…

Life & Chemistry

Worm-Tracking Challenge Inspires New Brain Research Tool

Using new optical equipment, a team of 11 researchers put roundworms into a world of virtual reality, monitored both their behavior and brain activity and…

Earth Sciences

New Study: Deep Ocean’s Role in CO2 Levels Disputed

But a new study by a University of Michigan paleoclimatologist and two colleagues suggests that the deep ocean was not an important source of carbon during…

Studies and Analyses

MRI study finds that depression uncouples brain's hate circuit

The researchers used MRI scanners to scan the brain activity in 39 depressed people (23 female 16 male) and 37 control subjects who were not depressed (14…

Environmental Conservation

New study of Glover's Reef challenges whether corals will benefit from Marine Reserves' protection

A team of scientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science recently tested whether 10 years of reserve…

Health & Medicine

Cortisone Injections Show Promise in Treating PTSD for Veterans

As soldiers return home from tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, America must cope with the toll that war takes on mental health. But the treatment of Post…

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