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Earth Sciences

Tropical Depression 10W: Rain Impact on the Philippines

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression 10W on July 25 at 0441 UTC (12:41 a.m. EDT), the infrared image captured by the Atmospheric Infrared…

Studies and Analyses

Study finds important risk factors for death and transplantation in children with heart muscle disease

Using these risk factors, physicians may be able to better identify children who will or will not benefit from life-saving transplantation surgery; the current…

Social Sciences

Trend in Young Adults’ Dating Habits, Committed Relationships May Not Lead to Marriage

Changes in relationship formation and dissolution in the past 50 years have revealed new patterns in romantic relations among young adults. The U.S. Census…

Life & Chemistry

Mitochondria and SAR11: Unveiling Their Shared Ancestry

A recent study by researchers at the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) and the Oregon State University (OSU) provides strong evidence that mitochondria share…

Health & Medicine

Post-Concussive Syndrome: Disrupted Brain Connectivity Revealed

“Using resting-state functional MRI, we found increased functional connectivity of thalamocortical networks in patients following MTBI, due to the subtle…

Social Sciences

College-educated undocumented young adults face same narrow range of jobs as their parents

Many assume these youths will achieve more than their parents. But a survey of life trajectories of undocumented young adults raised and educated in America…

Studies and Analyses

Union decline accounts for much of the rise in wage inequality

“Our study underscores the role of unions as an equalizing force in the labor market,” said study author Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Harvard…

Studies and Analyses

Guidelines Cut Antibiotic Use in Quebec: A Collaborative Approach

The Quebec Minister of Health and the Quebec Medication Council collaborated with designated physicians and pharmacists to develop guidelines to improve…

Environmental Conservation

Texas Researchers Discover Crude Oil’s Reduced Toxicity to Bird Eggs

After collecting weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human…

Materials Sciences

Nanoplasmonic ‘Whispering Gallery’ Breaks Emission Time Record in Semiconductors

These circular chambers were designed to amplify and direct sound waves so that, when standing in the right spot, a whisper could be heard from across the…

Technology Offerings

RODental – Removable adhesion material for dental applications

RODental is a dentistry cement containing encapsulated phase-change material. This novel type of cement allows a removal of permanent and provisionally fixed…

Technology Offerings

Soldest Terra: Innovative Solutions for Clean Water Access

The supply of clean drinking water is more and more a problem worldwide. In Africa alone are more than 42% of the people without access to clean drinking…

Physics & Astronomy

Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research

A designer metamaterial has shown it can engineer emitted “blackbody” radiation with an efficiency beyond the natural limits imposed by the material's…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular Stress Triggers Yeast to Boost Prion Formation

Essentially clumps of misfolded proteins, prions cause neurodegenerative disorders, such as mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, in humans and animals. Prions…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Northwest Forest Plan: Unexpected Gains in Carbon Sequestration

When forest harvest levels fell 82 percent on public forest lands in the years after passage of this act, they became a significant carbon “sink” for the first…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Three Tropical Cyclones in One Stunning Image

In infrared image taken on July 22 at 0845 UTC (4:45 a.m. EDT), GOES-13 captured Tropical Depression Bret, Tropical Storm Cindy in the north Atlantic and low…

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