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Environmental Conservation

Increased Tropical Forest Growth May Release Soil Carbon

The research was led by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the University of Cambridge, UK. The results are published online today (14…

Health & Medicine

Arthritis Patients Face Higher Risk of Heart Disease: Study Findings

A new five year study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Arthritis Research & Therapy showed that the risk of cardiovascular disease for people…

Health & Medicine

New clue to Parkinson's

A new study finds that a protein key to Parkinson's disease has likely been mischaracterized. The protein, alpha-synuclein, appears to have a radically…

Life & Chemistry

Salmonella stays deadly with a 'beta' version of cell behavior

Scientists say that these bacteria have modified what has long been considered typical cell behavior by using a beta form of an amino acid – as opposed to an…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford Discovery Reduces Risks in Stem Cell Therapy

With the right combination of growth factors, skill and patience, a laboratory tissue culture dish promises to yield therapeutic wonders. But within these…

Health & Medicine

Slowing The Allergic March: Innovations in Allergy Management

A pandemic of ailments called the “allergic march” — the gradual acquisition of overlapping allergic diseases that commonly begins in early childhood — has…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Autism Recurrence Risk in Siblings

The risk that an infant with an older sibling with autism also will develop the disorder, previously estimated at between 3 and 10 percent, is substantially…

Health & Medicine

IMRT Enhances Treatment for Extranodal Lymphoma Patients

In a subtype of the disease called extranodal lymphoma, tumors arise in non-lymphoid organs, such as the tongue and tonsils. Patients with extranodal lymphoma…

Environmental Conservation

Worldwide Map Identifies Important Coral Reefs Exposed to Stress

The study, say the authors, will help to conserve some of the world’s most important coral reefs by identifying reef systems where biodiversity is high and…

Environmental Conservation

Urban Impacts on Phosphorus in Streams

High concentrations of phosphorus in aquatic ecosystems are often associated with human activities in the surrounding area, such as agriculture and urban…

Physics & Astronomy

Researcher Finds Largest Martian Channels Most Likely Formed by Volcanic Activity

But David Leverington, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University, said what we interpret as the largest ancient…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Ice Melt Could Pause for Several Years, Then Resume Again

The computer modeling study, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reinforces previous findings by other research teams that the level…

Life & Chemistry

Study Explores the Roots of Cooperation Between Plants and Fungi

Science is commonly regarded as one of the top science journals in the world.The groundbreaking study helps explain how plants were able to colonize the land…

Life & Chemistry

Hidden Soil Fungus, Now Revealed, Is in a Class All Its Own

Researchers say it represents an entirely new class of fungi: the Archaeorhizomycetes. Like the discovery of a weird type of aquatic fungus that made headlines…

Life & Chemistry

Read, delete and grow

Plants coordinate growth using hormones called brassinosteroids (BR), and defects in the associated signaling pathway can result in profoundly stunted…

Life & Chemistry

Flexibility: the key to carbon capture

From power plants that capture their own carbon dioxide emissions to vehicles powered by hydrogen, clean energy applications often demand materials that can…

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