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Life & Chemistry

How Roads Facilitate the Spread of Superbugs

Many studies on various infectious diseases have shown that roads impact the spread of disease, however this is the first known study to show that roads also…

Physics & Astronomy

Bolshoi Supercomputer Delivers Most Accurate Universe Simulation

The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Reveals Early Events in Tumor Development

A novel technique that enables scientists to measure and document tumor-inducing changes in DNA is providing new insight into the earliest events involved in…

Health & Medicine

Children's National researchers make breakthrough in understanding white matter development

Through the identification of a gene's impact on a signaling pathway, scientists at Children's National Medical Center continue to make progress in…

Health & Medicine

Promising Drug Treatment for Autism Language and Social Skills

Now, University of Missouri researchers are examining the use of propranolol (a drug used to treat high blood pressure and control heart rate as well as to…

Physics & Astronomy

Mercury’s Unique Surface: MESSENGER’s Surprising Discoveries

Its surface material composition differs in important ways from both those of the other terrestrial planets and expectations prior to the MESSENGER mission,…

Life & Chemistry

Penn Researcher Helps Identify “Superfast” Muscles Responsible for Bat Echolocation

By bouncing sound waves off objects, including the bugs that are their main diet, bats can produce an accurate representation of their environment in total…

Physics & Astronomy

Rice University Innovates Light Control Using Nanoparticles

A Rice laboratory led by chemist Stephan Link has discovered a way to use liquid crystals to control light scattered from gold nanorods. The researchers use…

Health & Medicine

Rutgers, UMDNJ Study Sheds Light on Virus Defense Mechanism

Principal investigators of the study, “Structural basis of RNA recognition and activation by innate immune receptor RIG-I,” chosen for advanced online…

Environmental Conservation

Reefs Recover Faster Post-Mass Extinction Than Expected

Harsh living conditions caused by major fluctuations in the carbon content and sea levels, overacidification and oxygen deficiency in the seas triggered the…

Studies and Analyses

Enhancing Vaccine Plans With Computational Modeling Insights

Computational models can assess the evolving needs of the vaccine supply chain – or the series of steps required to get a vaccine from the manufacturer to the…

Life & Chemistry

Protein PTK6 Knockout Reduces Colon Tumor Risk in Mice

The protein, called PTK6, is found in normal skin and gut cells — and in cancerous, but not normal, breast tissue.”Our research has primarily focused on the…

Life & Chemistry

'Alarm clock' gene explains wake-up function of biological clock

Ever wondered why you wake up in the morning —- even when the alarm clock isn't making jarring noises? Wonder no more. Researchers at the Salk Institute for…

Studies and Analyses

Hepatitis C Treatment Adherence Declines Over Time, Study Finds

Patients being treated for chronic hepatitis C become less likely to take their medications over time, according to a new study from the Perelman School of…

Life & Chemistry

Tree Frogs Collect Water by Chilling Outdoors at Night

According to researchers from Charles Darwin University in Australia, tree frogs often plop themselves down outside on cool nights during the dry season in…

Studies and Analyses

Early to bed and early to rise — study suggests it's keeping kids leaner

Ben Franklin was right, at least on the healthy part. “Early to bed and early to rise” appears to have helped a cross-section of early-bird Australian youths…

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