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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Grazing Management Effects on Stream Pollutants

Pasturelands have been found to be major sources of sediment, phosphorus and pathogens in Midwest surface water resources. While poor grazing management may…

Life & Chemistry

DNA-Enhanced Glucose Meters: Beyond Sugar Measurement

Chemistry professor Yi Lu and postdoctoral researcher Yu Xiang published their findings in the journal Nature Chemistry.“The advantages of our method are high…

Materials Sciences

New Photonic Crystals Combine Electronic and Optical Properties

“We’ve discovered a way to change the three-dimensional structure of a well-established semiconductor material to enable new optical properties while…

Life & Chemistry

New imaging techniques reveal the workings of supramolecular nanomachines

Koji YonekuraAssociate Chief ScientistBiostructural Mechanism LaboratoryPhoton Science Research DivisionRIKEN SPring-8 CenterSupramolecules comprising many…

Life & Chemistry

Immunity restrained by ion influx

B cells maintain stockpiles of calcium ions (Ca2+), which are released during the course of the immune response. When the presence of a foreign antigen…

Life & Chemistry

Silence of the genes

A molecular mechanism by which gene silencing is regulated at the genome-wide level in plants has been uncovered by a research team led by Motoaki Seki of the…

Life & Chemistry

“Heat-Loving” Fungus Supplies the DNA to Rebuild a Central Structure of Nuclear Envelope

By exploiting the DNA of a thermophilic fungus that grows optimally between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius Heidelberg scientists have reconstructed a central piece…

Studies and Analyses

Toxicologists Find Deepwater Horizon Crude Less Toxic to Bird Eggs After Weathering at Sea

However, scientists also reported the amount of time the oil remained at sea and exposed to weather had a significant effect on its toxicity to the fertilized…

Physics & Astronomy

Converting Junk Energy Into Useful Power Mathematically

The concept all begins with a granular system comprising a chain of equal-sized particles — spheres, for instance — that touch one another.In a paper in…

Information Technology

DASGIP iApp Adds Webcam Support for Live Bioreactor Views

Scientists and process engineers using the DASGIP iApp can now watch live views of their bioreactors from webcams installed in the laboratory while they have…

Technology Offerings

Hydroxylapatite Nanoceramics: Next-Gen Tooth Replacement Material

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The invention relates to a manufacturing technique for a material that can be used to replace the hard substance of the tooth…

Life & Chemistry

UCI Study Reveals Insights on Convergent Evolution in Butterflies

For 150 years scientists have been trying to explain convergent evolution. One of the best-known examples of this is how poisonous butterflies from different…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Forest Fungus Factory Targets Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

So far, only extreme cold stops the hemlock woolly adelgid. But the University of Vermont’s Scott Costa may soon give forest managers and homeowners a tool to…

Awards Funding

Hebrew University and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) launch $500.000 agreement for cooperation in research projects

The FAPESP is an independent public foundation with the mission of fostering research and scientific and technological development in the state of São Paulo,…

Studies and Analyses

UAB Launches New Schizophrenia Studies Targeting Glutamate

UAB has received two grants totaling $3.9 million from the National Institutes of Mental Health, one of the National Institutes of Health, in an effort to…

Life & Chemistry

South Dakota Research Project Could Help Colonize Space

The South Dakota institutions have won a National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant of $750,000 to study ways to use cyanobacteria to make…

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