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Physics & Astronomy

CERN’s LHCb Experiment Takes Precision Physics to a New Level

The LHCb experiment studies this phenomenon by observing the way B mesons decay into other particles. The new results reinforce earlier measurements from LHCb…

Health & Medicine

Eat Lighter Lunches: Cornell Study on Weight Loss Without Hunger

Participants who ate portion-controlled lunches did not compensate by eating more calories later in the day, leading researchers to believe the human body does…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Candidates to Combat Protein-Folding Diseases

The compounds, which prevent the abnormal aggregation of the TTR protein, work by holding the protein together in its functional form. These compounds have the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Monitoring Ground-Level Ozone from Space

In a 5-year study led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) molecular biologist Lisa Ainsworth, ARS plant…

Physics & Astronomy

New Discovery Reveals Young Galaxy Ecosystem Insights

During the epoch when the first galaxies formed, it is believed that they radiated energy, which hit surrounding neutral hydrogen atoms and excited them to the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Testing Bioenergy Crops: Impact on Hydrology Explained

Bioenergy crops, such as switchgrass (front) and miscanthus (rear), have very dense foliage, thus having a different effect on hydrology than traditional…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Cell Response Differences in Hypertension Rates

In a study published this month in Vascular Health and Risk Management, lead author Michael Brown and his team tested the effects of TNF-Ü, a protein that…

Studies and Analyses

Childhood Bullying Study Shifts Focus to Victim Strategies

The study appears in the journal Child Development.”The main question we were interested in is how do children go about selecting strategies for dealing with…

Studies and Analyses

Mother-son ties change over time, influence teen boys' behavior

Those are the findings of a new longitudinal study of low-income families by researchers at Wayne State University, Oklahoma State University, the University…

Medical Engineering

Balloon Pump Use Before Angioplasty: No Heart Damage Benefit

The findings were published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and presented at the European Society of Cardiology in…

Studies and Analyses

Rotavirus Vaccine Benefits Infants and Unvaccinated Kids

Rotavirus is a major cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children. Before the vaccine, rotavirus was responsible for 58,000 to 70,000 pediatric…

Health & Medicine

Early ECG Diagnosis Boosts ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Care

Their study (including almost 10,000 patients) showed that a strategy with early diagnosis based on ECG recording in the ambulance and directing the patients…

Medical Engineering

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the Edwards valve prosthesis in patients with low

Results from a study presented today at the ESC Congress 2011, show that TAVI implantation in low risk patients, met with 100% procedural success (versus 95.3%…

Life & Chemistry

Tracking Virus Interactions: A New Tool for Health Insights

From SARS to swine flu, virus outbreaks can be unpredictable — and devastating. But now a new application through the ubiquitous social networking site…

Business and Finance

Wise Stock Market Investments: Euro’s Impact Unveiled

This is shown in a study by the economist Maher Asal at University West in Sweden. Previous research provides overwhelming evidence that diversifying across…

Environmental Conservation

How Game Theory Can Tackle Climate Change Free-Riders

“Free riders are countries which continue to emit CO2 without restraint, even when most members of the international community have committed themselves to…

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