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A study, completed by researchers from Trinity College and the Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society, Dublin, Ireland, compares former smokers to…
An invention by Rice University bioengineering students in collaboration with the Texas Heart Institute (THI) is geared toward giving immediate second chances…
This month, in “Tracking Trace Elements and Isotopes in the Oceans,” we follow up with Jacquot as he details the highs, lows and initial findings from the…
The world's foremost researchers in laser science, optoelectronics and quantum optics will present their findings at the Conference on Lasers and…
Researchers with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are testing a fungal pathogen that could be used as a biocontrol, along with the release of…
The paper finds that people are willing to trade one source of control for the other. For example, if people lack power, they clamor for choice, and if they…
When it comes to dreaming about diamonds, energy efficiency and powerful information processing aren't normally the thoughts that spring to mind. Unless, of…
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have discovered new details of how cancer cells escape from tumor suppression mechanisms that normally prevent these…
Over 600,000 people in the U.S., and 12 million worldwide, are affected by the inherited kidney disease known as autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease,…
In laboratories like CERN*, physicists observe matter and antimatter behaving in an almost identical way. Each matter particle has an equivalent antiparticle,…
When fully developed as a hand-held, portable sensor, like something you might see in a science fiction movie, it will provide a whole diagnostic laboratory on…
Take millions of puzzle pieces containing partial words and put them back together into full words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters until the book these…
Several wind turbines, some taller than a 40-story building, spin and hum at the site, just outside of Boulder, Colo., waiting for an experiment to start in…
Baumgartner and his colleagues studied the behavior of right whales and sei whales—both endangered species of baleen whales—in the waters of the Gulf of Maine…
The new study examined the remnant of a supernova observed by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1572. The object, dubbed Tycho for short, was formed by a…
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