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Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Technology Transforms Unique Surgery for Blood Clots

The girl developed during her first year of life a blood clot in the blood vessel that leads blood from the intestines to the liver. This introduced the risk…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Understanding Life’s Origins: Hoyle State Solved

“Attempts to calculate the Hoyle state have been unsuccessful since 1954,” said Professor Dr. Ulf-G. Meißner (Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik…

Science Education

Bilingualism’s Impact on Learning Foreign Languages Explored

However, bilingualism in itself does not bring any advantages when it comes to learning a foreign language. A new thesis in German from the University of…

Physics & Astronomy

Deep Fractures Discovered in Mars’ Nili Fossae Graben System

Nili Fossae is a ‘graben’ system on Mars, northeast of the Syrtis Major volcanic province, on the northwestern edge of the giant Isidis impact basin. Graben…

Life & Chemistry

How Temperature Shifts Enhance Immune Response in T Cells

The study, recently published online ahead of print by Nature Chemical Biology, is the first to find such a sensor in immune cells—specifically, in the T…

Earth Sciences

Discovery of Krotite: One of the Earliest Solar System Minerals

In the May-June issue of the journal American Mineralogist, a team of scientists announced the discovery of the new mineral krotite, one of the earliest…

Interdisciplinary Research

'Swiss cheese' design enables thin film silicon solar cells with potential for higher efficiencies

One long-term option for low-cost, high-yield industrial production of solar panels from abundant raw materials can be found in amorphous silicon solar cells…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Regulatory Network Insights: Transcription Factors in Cancer

Jointly, such gene expression status of each gene in the genome, measured as the level of their transcripts, constitutes the gene expression profile. Since…

Studies and Analyses

Columbia’s Green Roof: A Smart Solution for Rainwater Management

The Con Edison Green Roof, which is home to 21,000 plants on a quarter acre of The Learning Center, retains 30 percent of the rainwater that falls on it. The…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo Clinic’s Breakthrough: Turning Zebrafish Genes On and Off

The work could help shed light on health-related problems such as how cancerous cells spread, what makes some people more prone to heart attacks,…

Health & Medicine

New Test Offers Hope for Improved Life in SLE Patients

Together with rheumatologists, researchers at Lund University in Sweden are on the way to developing a new test that could resolve a number of question marks…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Showcases Innovative Radiation Therapy Solutions at ESTRO

The innovations are aimed at assisting clinicians in treating tumors with greater precision. Intelligent software and imaging ensure that radiation planning,…

Information Technology

Graphene Optical Modulators: A Leap Toward Ultrafast Communication

The team of researchers, led by UC Berkeley engineering professor Xiang Zhang, built a tiny optical device that uses graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of…

Life & Chemistry

How the Brain Optimizes Visual Search for Security Screening

That ability translates to the human world. Transportation Security Administration screeners can pick out dangerous objects in an image of our messy and…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Graphene: Innovation in Electronic Life on the Edge

As far back as the 1990s, long before anyone had actually isolated graphene – a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick – theorists were predicting…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Plant Cultivation in Extreme Climates Through Research

All living organisms are dependent on water, but this is especially true for plants. Limited access to water is one of the decisive factors for humans to be…

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