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South Africa, Europe Unite to Boost Life Sciences Research

EMBO, EMBC and South African government sign agreementScientists in South Africa will access the latest in European life sciences thinking and research…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM Satellite sees Typhoon Roke intensify rapidly before landfall in Japan

Typhoon Roke followed a looping path for five days while maintaining tropical-storm strength prior to intensifying to typhoon-strength at 12 UTC (8 a.m. EDT)…

Earth Sciences

Satellites Track Birth of Tropical Storm Ophelia in Atlantic

NASA and NOAA satellites were watching the low pressure System 98L in the central Atlantic yesterday when it was 1450 miles east of the Leeward Islands.Yesterday, Sept. 20, 2011 at 4:11 p.m. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over System 98L before it became a tropical storm. An infrared image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument onboard showed System 98L's strongest thunderstorms and coldest cloud tops (colder than -63F/-52C) were banded north and south of the center of circulation. Those bands of thunderstorms were a sign that the low pressure area was organizing and strengthening….

Social Sciences

Self-Compassion Tips for Divorcees: Insights from New Research

Self-compassion, says an upcoming study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science. Self-compassion—a…

Studies and Analyses

Large study finds genetic 'overlap' between schizophrenia, bipolar disorder

In an effort to push the field forward, three UCLA researchers, along with scientists from more than 20 countries, have been taking part in one of the largest…

Life & Chemistry

'Emerging contaminants of concern' detected throughout Narragansett Bay watershed

A group of hazardous chemical compounds that are common in industrial processes and personal care products but which are not typically monitored by the…

Life & Chemistry

Bionic bacteria may help fight disease and global warming

A strain of genetically enhanced bacteria developed by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies may pave the way for new synthetic drugs and…

Studies and Analyses

CMU Study Reveals Bias Amplification in Advisory Conflicts

New research from Carnegie Mellon University's George Loewenstein and Duke University's Sunita Sah demonstrates that advisers confronting a conflict of…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Uncover River Cutoff Insights at Wabash and Ohio

Geography professor Bruce Rhoads and geology professor Jim Best were conducting research where the Wabash River meets the Ohio River in the summer of 2008 when…

Awards Funding

Global Photonic Energy Corporation’s Research Partner Wins U.S. Department of Energy Grant Under the SunShot Initiative

Global Photonic Energy Corporation (“GPEC”), a world leader in the development of Small-Molecule Organic Photovoltaic (SM-OPV™) technology that will enable…

Health & Medicine

More Focus Needed on Early Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease

Lead researcher Rebecca Ready, associate professor of psychology at UMass Amherst, says, “Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease in…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Link DNA to Nanostructures

Assembly of nanostructures using DNA may lead to the production of new materials with a wide range of applications from electronics to tissue engineering….

Materials Sciences

Proton-Based Transistor Could Let Machines Communicate with Living Things

Materials scientists at the University of Washington have built a novel transistor that uses protons, creating a key piece for devices that can communicate…

Machine Engineering

Devices for wall mounting expand the Siemens power supply product portfolio

The new products are single-phase devices with an attractive price/performance ratio for direct mounting on a wall. Screw installation means that a mounting…

Health & Medicine

Prostate Biopsy Complications Rise: Hospitalization Rates Soar

The researchers found that this common outpatient procedure, used to diagnose prostate cancer, was associated with a 6.9 percent rate of hospitalization within…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover Exoplanets: Users Analyze NASA’s Kepler Data At Home

Users analyze real scientific data collected by NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system — called exoplanets —…

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