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Life & Chemistry

Scientists Reverse Aging in Adult Stem Cells for Healthier Futures

The findings could lead to medical treatments that may repair a host of ailments that occur because of tissue damage as people age. A research group led by the…

Health & Medicine

New Blood Test Detects Heart Attacks Using cMyBP-C Protein

In the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, researchers report that a large protein known as cardiac myosin binding protein-C (cMyBP-C) is released to…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Sequence Dark Matter of Life

Scientists from UC San Diego, the J. Craig Venter Institute and Illumina Inc., published their findings in the Sept. 18 online issue of the journal Nature…

Materials Sciences

High Speed Charging Device – Success in High Capacity Graphene-Based Supercapacitors

Professor Jie Tang, Group Leader of the 1D Nanomaterials Research Group of the Materials Processing Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, and Mr….

Materials Sciences

Superconducting Magnet Generates World’s Highest Magnetic Field at 24T

A team led by Dr. Shinji Matsumoto, a Senior Researcher of the Magnet Development (Group Leader: Tsukasa Kiyoshi), Superconducting Wire Unit (Unit Director:…

Materials Sciences

Success in Development of High Temperature, High Speed Metal Fatigue Test Device with 1000°C Heat Resistance

A research group led by Dr. Yoshiyuki Furuya, a Senior Researcher of the Materials Reliability Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, succeeded in the…

Materials Sciences

NIMS Achieves Highest Efficiency in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

The unit set the record in the Research Area “Creative research for clean energy generation using solar energy” (Research Supervisor: Masafumi Yamaguchi,…

Business and Finance

What Investors Have Learned from the Major Earthquake

1. IntroductionThe Great East Japan Earthquake has dramatically altered the way the Japanese economy is seen. For example, the way that housing and real estate…

Corporate News

Siemens Boosts Industrial Software with Strategic Acquisition

This takeover enables Industry Automation, a Division of the Siemens Industry Sector, to further develop its leading global position in the industrial software…

Life & Chemistry

Microscopic Jet Vacuum Device Simplifies Cellular Exploration

It’s a bit of a challenge. But, imagine a microscopic jet vacuum cleaner, the size of a pen nib that hovers over cell surfaces without ever touching them. Then…

Earth Sciences

NOAA Study Reveals Emissions from BP Deepwater Horizon Burns

In response to the spill, NOAA quickly redirected its WP-3D research aircraft to survey the atmosphere above the spill site in June. During a flight through…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Logical Persuasion in Advertising Strategies

Advertisers come at you in two ways. There is the just-the-facts type of ad, called “logical persuasion,” or LP (“This car gets 42 miles to the gallon”), and…

Life & Chemistry

Amateur Botanists Discover Unique Genuflecting Plant in Brazil

A new plant that buries its seeds, the first in its family, is discovered in the Atlantic forest of Bahia, Brazil, by an international team of scientists.The…

Studies and Analyses

The 'silent majority' agrees with me, voters believe

But what about people whose affiliation is unknown—who can't easily be placed in either the “in-group” or the “out-group”? A new study finds that we think the…

Social Sciences

NASA Tracks Heavy Rainfall as Typhoon Roke Approaches Japan

Japanese authorities are calling for evacuations as Typhoon Roke nears because of flooding concerns. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation,…

Life & Chemistry

Key Genes Collaborate for Healthy Skin Protection

Skin is the body's armor, protecting us from disease agents, injury, excessive water loss, and cold and heat. Yet mutations in a single gene, the gene for the…

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