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Life & Chemistry

Cracking Cellulose: A Breakthrough in Biofuels Innovation

Professor Paul Walton and Professor Gideon Davies, of the University's Department of Chemistry, were part of an international team that has found a method to…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Ethanol Yield: Switchgrass Harvest and Pretreatment Insights

Michael Ladisch, a distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Youngmi Kim, a research scientist, compared switchgrass based on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Exploring Innovations in Solar Cell Technology

Solar or photovoltaic cells represent one of the best possible technologies for providing an absolutely clean and virtually inexhaustible source of energy to…

Studies and Analyses

40-Year Study Links Biology to Delayed Gratification Insights

A landmark study in the late 1960s and early 1970s used marshmallows and cookies to assess the ability of preschool children to delay gratification. If they…

Physics & Astronomy

New Manufacturing Method for Quantum Dot LEDs Unveiled

It could be neither.Instead, America's future lighting needs may be supplied by a new breed of light emitting diode, or LED, that conjures light from the…

Health & Medicine

Defibrillator Study: Simpler Devices May Reduce Risks

When it comes to defibrillators, simpler may be safer, even though more complex machines are used on a majority of patients. That's according to a new study…

Physics & Astronomy

Penn Physicists Uncover Soft Spots in Disordered Solids

Now, a collaboration combining a theoretical model with a first-of-its kind experiment has demonstrated a novel method for identifying “soft spots” in such…

Life & Chemistry

White Blood Cell’s Role in Cancer Growth Unveiled by Scripps Researchers

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that a particular white blood cell plays a direct role in the development and spread of cancerous…

Event News

First DZNE/MPI Conference: Aging and Neurodegeneration Insights

The growing proportion of ageing individuals in our society is affected by late onset diseases including neurodegenerative disorders.The reasons why age is the…

Studies and Analyses

How Neighborly Trust Impacts Your Health and Well-Being

“I examined the idea of ‘relative position,’ or where one fits into the income distribution in their local community, as it applies to both trust of neighbors…

Health & Medicine

New Insights into Aging: Health and Cognition Changes Unveiled

There also is an emerging consensus that a multidisciplinary theoretical approach is necessary to understand the nature of the processes of cognitive aging….

Life & Chemistry

UF Chemists Transform Sea Bacteria Byproduct Into Cancer Drug

Writing today in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, UF medicinal chemists describe how they took a generally lethal byproduct of marine cyanobacteria and made it…

Earth Sciences

TRMM Satellite Captures Tropical Storm Katia’s Intense Rain

Katia began as an area of low pressure that had moved away from the coast of Africa south of the Cape Verde Islands in the central eastern Atlantic. This area…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Depression 8E Forms Near Mexico’s Coastline

Forecasters noticed the depression develop more rounded characteristics on imagery from NOAA's GOES-11 satellite today. The image was created by the NASA GOES…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Storm Nanmadol's Landfall, Talas Headed to Japan

Infrared satellite imagery from The Atmospheric Sounder Instrument (AIRS) aboard NASA's Aqua satellite shows two different stories in the tropical cyclones. AIRS captured an infrared image of Nanmadol on Aug. 31 at 1:05 EDT dissipating quickly over mainland China with a lack of high, thunderstorm clouds. Most of the remnants of Nanmadol are lower, warmer clouds. …

Studies and Analyses

Aging Eyes: Sleep Disorders Linked in New Study Findings

A natural yellowing of the eye lens that absorbs blue light has been linked to sleep disorders in a group of test volunteers, according to a study in the…

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