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Life & Chemistry

Men’s and Women’s Immune Systems Respond Differently to PTSD

While a robust immune response protects the body from foreign invaders, such as bacteria and viruses, an over-activated response causes inflammation, which can…

Life & Chemistry

Brandeis Researchers Advance Understanding of ALS Toxicity

Brandeis researchers have made a significant advance in the effort to understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by successfully reversing the toxicity of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

CU-Boulder leading study of wind turbine wakes

The study, called the Turbine Wake and Inflow Characterization Study, or TWICS, also includes researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Earth Sciences

Siberian Hot Springs Unveil Ancient Ecology Insights

Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere, according to a theory…

Earth Sciences

GOES-13 Satellite Detects High Risk of Severe Weather

What's unusual about the system is that there are a handful of days where a “high risk” for severe weather is noted by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory…

Studies and Analyses

Affordable Health Insurance for Most Families Under ACA

Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to…

Studies and Analyses

Report Upends Standard Take on Cap and Trade Loss

“There is a tendency among environmentalists and scientists to blame political inaction on the spending advantage enjoyed by conservatives and on false balance…

Trade Fair News

French shipbuilding steams ahead to Oslo for Nor-Shipping

UBIFRANCE, the French Agency for International Development, will present a dozen innovative French companies on the French Pavilion at the Nor-Shipping trade…

Studies and Analyses

CESAR Launches Trial for Pharmacokinetic Dosing in NSCLC

This multicenter randomized trial is planned to enroll 280 patients. In the first phase of the study, eight study centers will participate in Germany and…

Technology Offerings

Laccat – A novel class of Zn-catalyst for the polymerization of cyclic esters

The use of heavy metals in chemical production and their

concentration in products, in particular biodegradable
…

Studies and Analyses

Fighting HIV in South Africa: Study Highlights Couples’ Risks

A new study of sexual risk behaviors within long-term couples in South Africa finds that HIV-positive people take almost as much risk in their sexual behavior…

Physics & Astronomy

Beetle Bling: Researchers Discover Optical Secrets of 'Metallic' Beetles

Costa Rica was once regarded as the poorest of all the colonies of the Spanish Empire, sadly deficient in the silver and gold so coveted by conquistadors. As…

Life & Chemistry

Sugar’s Role in Cancer Growth: Uncovering the Truth

Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor…

Environmental Conservation

Nepal’s Rhino Population Grows: Collective Conservation Success

According to the census, there are 534 rhinos in Nepal, marking an increase of 99 rhinos from the 435 recorded in the last census in 2008; 503 were recorded in…

Environmental Conservation

Port Valdez Invertebrates Thrive 26 Years Post-Quake

“The earthquake, which measured 9.2 on the Richter scale, and the tsunami waves that followed, impacted every marine community in Prince William Sound,” said…

Process Engineering

Optimized Fiber-Laser System for Micro-Material Processing

Industry has placed a long list of demands on micro-machining laser systems – the laser beam must be easy to focus, nearly non-fluctuating, and beam…

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