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Health & Medicine

Pitt Team Discovers Key Molecular Pathway in Asthma Inflammation

Their findings, reported online in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal unique interactions between biological molecules that…

Environmental Conservation

Florida Keys Coral Reefs Struggle Amid Severe Cold Snap

Now, researchers at the University of Georgia have found that extreme low temperatures affect certain corals in much the same way that high temperatures do,…

Earth Sciences

Ancient North America Traced Back to Antarctica’s Coats Land

“I can go to the Franklin Mountains in West Texas and stand next to what was once part of Coats Land in Antarctica,” said Staci Loewy, a geochemist at…

Social Sciences

Social Class Shapes Culture: Clothing, Music, and Social Interactions

It’s also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to—and has a strong influence on how you interact with others, according to the authors…

Studies and Analyses

How ACCESS Reduces Surgical Decision Time in Emergency Departments

The use of Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service (ACCESS) in emergency departments (EDs) can lead to significant reductions in key patient measures, such as…

Materials Sciences

Microwaves Join Fight against Malaria

Dinesh Agrawal, professor of materials, and Jiping Cheng, senior research associate in the Penn State Materials Research Institute, are working with Penn State…

Business and Finance

Innovation Key to Job Creation: Research, Science and Technology Parks Creating High-Wage Jobs

“Research and science parks help grow local, high-tech companies while attracting new ones to the region,” said Harold Strong, Jr., Association of University…

Earth Sciences

Human Influence on the 21St Century Climate: One Possible Future for the Atmosphere

New computer modeling work shows that by 2100, if society wants to limit carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to less than 40 percent higher than it is today, the…

Life & Chemistry

Light Unlocks Fragrance In Laboratory

Highly reactive radicals are atoms, molecules or ions frantically trying to become something else. Their lifetimes are measured in fractions of seconds and…

Environmental Conservation

Is Hunting Wolves Key to Their Conservation?

It’s a pressing question as gray wolves were removed from the federal endangered species list in some western states this past May and are poised for delisting…

Materials Sciences

Optoelectronic materials: Optimum solution

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are seen as a promising replacement for the liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) used in many flat-screen televisions because…

Information Technology

Photonics: Bright prospects

Silicon is an ideal platform for integrated photonic circuits because the material is cheap and readily available. Silicon chips with an integrated laser…

Studies and Analyses

You can count on this: Math ability is inborn

It seems we do, at least according to the results of a study by a team of Johns Hopkins University psychologists. Led by Melissa Libertus, a post-doctoral…

Physics & Astronomy

Like Superman's X-Ray Vision, New Microscope Reveals Nanoscale Details

But that’s not all. What’s unusual about this new, nanoscale, X-ray microscope is that the images are not produced by a lens, but by means of a powerful…

Health & Medicine

USC Scientist Creates Virus Targeting HIV-Infected Cells

In what represents an important step toward curing HIV, a USC scientist has created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cells.Dr. Pin Wang's lentiviral vector…

Life & Chemistry

'Good' prion-like proteins boost immune response

This study marks the first discovery of so-called “good” prion-like proteins in human cells and the first to find such proteins involved in innate immunity:…

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