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Life & Chemistry

University of Iowa Researchers Identify Caffeine-Consuming Bacterium

One of them, known as Pseudomonas putida CBB5, was found in a flowerbed outside a UI research laboratory. The research team says the discovery — and the new…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Study Ocean Impacts of Radioactive Contamination from Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

“This project will address fundamental questions about the impact of this release of radiation to the ocean, and in the process enhance international…

Materials Sciences

Researchers at Stony Brook University Predict Material 'Denser than Diamond'

Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakhov and their…

Medical Engineering

Using Magnets to Help Prevent Heart Attacks

Rongjia Tao, professor and chair of physics at Temple University, has pioneered the use of electric or magnetic fields to decrease the viscosity of oil in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Southeast Might Pick Up Nation’s Farming Needs

“The Southeast may be in a sweet spot,” said Dr. Richard McNider from The University of Alabama in Huntsville. “We are one of the few places in the country…

Life & Chemistry

High-Fat Diet May Harm Brain Cells Regulating Weight

“The possibility that brain injury may be a consequence of the overconsumption of a typical American diet offers a new explanation for why sustained weight…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

'Thermal pollution' in rivers not fully mediated by gravel augmentation

Although adding gravel to a river to replace lost sediments won't likely cool the whole river channel, it can create cool water refuges that protect fish from…

Life & Chemistry

How cells' sensing hairs are made

“It’s a basic discovery, but with implications for understanding disease,” said Jonathan Scholey, professor of molecular and cellular biology at UC Davis and…

Life & Chemistry

Can Evolution Keep Pace With Climate Change?

The tide pool copepod Tigriopus californicus is found from Alaska to Baja California — but in a unique lab study, the animals showed little ability to evolve…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Dual-Satellite View of Tropical Storm Adrian

Tropical Depression 1E is the first tropical depression of 2011 and formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean early on June 7. By the morning of June 8 it had…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Reawakening of System 98A in Arabian Sea

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument onboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image on June 8 at 08:47 UTC (4:47 a.m. EDT) of the hundreds of…

Studies and Analyses

Exercise Boosts Brain Health: Protect Against Silent Strokes

“These ‘silent strokes’ are more significant than the name implies, because they have been associated with an increased risk of falls and impaired mobility,…

Life & Chemistry

Saving Wildlife With Forensic Genetics

Wildlife face many threats with spreading urbanization, including habitat loss and inbreeding when populations become fragmented and isolated. It doesn't help…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Visual Illusion: Exploring the Science Behind It

Who hasn’t seen M.C. Escher’s famous picture of the stairs that appear to always go up even though they form a closed circle? This tricky visual illusion is…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Data storage: Keeping the heat on

The perfect data storage solution should offer fast access to data, maintain data in the absence of external power, and be able to withstand large numbers of…

Physics & Astronomy

Photonics: Double twist

Silicon is the dominant material for the fabrication of integrated circuits and is also becoming a popular material for making photonics circuits—miniaturized…

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