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Materials Sciences

New Graphene Discovery Boosts Oil Exploration Efforts, Could Enable Self-Powered Microsensors

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to harvest energy from flowing water. This discovery aims to hasten the creation of…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Wave Motion: The Power of Merging Waves

When waves meet, a new single wave is created. This phenomenon is well understood for mechanical waves such as sound, and electro-magnetic waves such as light,…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Early Human Embryo Development: A Closer Look

How is it that a disc-like cluster of cells transforms within the first month of pregnancy into an elongated embryo? This mechanism is a mystery that man has…

Trade Fair News

DuPont Unveils New Technologies for Production Efficiency

Its use of material science and development of cost-effective processing technology is illustrated by two recent technological developments to be highlighted…

Life & Chemistry

University of Maryland researchers discover possible drug targets for common non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have discovered a novel interaction between two proteins involved in regulating cell growth that…

Health & Medicine

Heartburn Treatment Linked to Longer Survival in IPF Patients

“While preliminary, these findings support a relationship between GER, chronic microaspiration and IPF,” said lead researcher Joyce Lee, MD, clinical…

Life & Chemistry

One-Time Gene Therapy Shields Arteries From Atherosclerosis

A one-dose method for delivering gene therapy into an arterial wall effectively protects the artery from developing atherosclerosis despite ongoing high blood…

Social Sciences

New report shows seniors' economic security falling

Outliving one's resources and falling into poverty is an increasingly common experience among today's senior citizens, according to a new report produced…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Heavy Rainfall from Typhoon Ma-on

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Ma-on early on July 19, at 0347 UTC (11:47 p.m. EDT on July 18) and imagery from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder…

Health & Medicine

Kidney Dopamine’s Role in Blood Pressure and Longevity

Now, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is important for renal…

Life & Chemistry

New Lung Cancer Gene Discovery: Key Insights for Research

A major challenge for cancer biologists is figuring out which among the hundreds of genetic mutations found in a cancer cell are most important for driving the…

Health & Medicine

Testosterone Deficiency: Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment

To highlight some of the challenges and controversies encountered in diagnosis and treatment of men with TD, the authors of a review article in the American…

Health & Medicine

Falls may be early sign of Alzheimer’s

Scientists found that study participants with brain changes suggestive of early Alzheimer’s disease were more likely to fall than those whose brains did not…

Life & Chemistry

Engineering Excitable Cells for Bioelectricity Research

This proof-of-concept advance could have broad implications in treating diseases of the nervous system or the heart, since these tissues rely on cells with the…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Vascular Disease Management for Aging Populations

As the population ages and obesity and diabetes increase, more people suffer from noncardiac vascular diseases. In the July/August issue of Progress in…

Awards Funding

IPv6 Contest: Innovative Ideas for Next-Gen Internet

The objectives of the contest are the generation of ideas and applications, which help determine how to propagate IPv6 deployment for the next generation…

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