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Rebooting Psychotherapy: Insights from Yale’s Alan Kazdin

But Alan Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University, believes that we must acknowledge a basic truth – all of our progress and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Tools to Combat Nitrogen Pollution in Agriculture

The fertilizers are a major reason why agriculture is a significant source of both greenhouse gas emissions and pollution in estuaries like the Gulf of Mexico…

Earth Sciences

Indigenous Alaskans Share Insights on Climate Change Observations

The USGS coordinated interviews with Yup'ik hunters and elders in the villages of St. Mary's and Pitka's Point, Alaska, to document their observations of…

Health & Medicine

Protein BVES in Heart: New Target for Colon Cancer Therapies

Research led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute suggests that the protein BVES (blood vessel endocardial…

Studies and Analyses

SDSC Software Powers First Global Camera Trap Mammal Study

A novel software system developed by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been used in the…

Health & Medicine

TSH Hormone’s Role in Direct Bone Growth Uncovered

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), a hormone produced in the anterior pituitary gland that…

Health & Medicine

Unlocking Motor Memory: USC’s Groundbreaking Research Insights

For the first time, scientists at USC have unlocked a mechanism behind the way short- and long-term motor memory work together and compete against one another.The research — from a team led by Nicolas Schweighofer of the Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy at USC — could potentially pave the way to more effective rehabilitation for stroke patients….

Life & Chemistry

Cornell Researchers Unlock Safe Method for Blood-Brain Barrier

Cornell University researchers may have solved a 100-year puzzle: How to safely open and close the blood-brain barrier so that therapies to treat Alzheimer's…

Life & Chemistry

Neuroimaging Reveals How Our Brain Recognizes Scenes

For the study, MacEvoy and Epstein used functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) to help them identify how the brain figures out where it is in the world…

Life & Chemistry

Shaping up: Controlling a stem cell's form can determine its fate

Cell biologists may be turning that on its head. New research* by a team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reinforces the…

Information Technology

Double Jeopardy: Rethinking Building Codes for Multiple Hazards

This is because current codes consider natural hazards individually, explains NIST's Dat Duthinh, a research structural engineer. So, if earthquakes rank as…

Studies and Analyses

Gene Flux Could Predict Trauma Patient Survival, Study Finds

Princeton research reported in the Sept. 13 issue of the journal PLoS Medicine shows for the first time that people recovering from a serious injury –…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Nanoribbons: A Breakthrough Inside Carbon Nanotubes

Graphene, a one atom thin flake of plain carbon, has a wide range of unusual and highly interesting properties. As a conductor of electricity it performs as…

Information Technology

New Supercomputer To Boost Rensselaer Leadership in High-Performance Computing

A new system to be installed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute supercomputing center will enable exciting new research possibilities across the nation…

Health & Medicine

Calling All Parents: Eat Your Rutabagas!

“Parents serve as important role models for their children when it comes to healthy eating,” says Dr. Kral. “Watching a parent eat initially disliked or novel…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Fermentation with Transgenic Yeast Modifies Mycotoxins

Now, Virginia Tech and Agricultural Research Service, USDA researchers have shown that newly developed transgenic yeast used during fermentation will help…

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