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Satellites Enhance Hurricane Forecasting for Coastal Safety

“It’s a really critical piece of information that’s really going to help society in coastal areas, not only in the U.S., but also globally,” said atmospheric…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Examines Video Game Violence Effects on Teens

Three researchers have developed a novel method to consider that question: they analyzed the research output of experts who filed a brief in a U.S. Supreme…

Earth Sciences

Early Atlantic Low Pressure System Identified by GOES-13

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a Special Tropical Weather Outlook today, April 20, that noted the low pressure area was located about 460 miles…

Health & Medicine

Smart Dosing: Enhancing Cancer Treatment Choices Through Clarity

It's long been known that people who aren't good with numbers have a harder time understanding the risk information they need to make good medical decisions,…

Studies and Analyses

Topical Corticosteroids Safe for Children With Eczema

Parental phobia of TCS is widespread and leads to poorly managed eczema in children. The commonest fear is that TCS use will “thin the skin.” Parents fears are…

Studies and Analyses

Insecticide Exposure During Pregnancy Linked to Cognitive Decline

Researchers from the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health report evidence of a link between prenatal…

Health & Medicine

Antidepressants: Uncovering Their Limits in Treating Depression

“Widely used antidepressant medications, while working overall, missed these symptoms. If patients have persistent residual symptoms, these individuals have a…

Life & Chemistry

TRIM5: How Monkeys Naturally Combat HIV Infection

Unlike people, certain monkey species, such as rhesus or night monkeys, are resistant to HIV thanks to TRIM5, a cellular protein: In the case of an HIV…

Health & Medicine

Thalidomide’s Birth Defect Link Revealed by Researchers

Thalidomide may have been withdrawn in the early 1960s for use by pregnant women, but its dramatic effects remain memorable half a century later. Now,…

Environmental Conservation

Land Use Changes Boost Wild Ungulate Populations

“In the last few decades there has been an increase in the area of distribution of wild ungulates”, explains Pelayo Acevedo, lead author of the study and…

Health & Medicine

Reevaluating Testosterone’s Role in Prostate Cancer Risk

“For many decades it had been believed that a history of prostate cancer, even if treated and cured, was an absolute contraindication to testosterone therapy,…

Physics & Astronomy

Miniature invisibility 'carpet cloak' hides more than its small size implies

Invisibility cloaks are seemingly futuristic devices capable of concealing very small objects by bending and channeling light around them. Until now, however,…

Studies and Analyses

Green environments essential for human health

“Through the decades, parks advocates, landscape architects, and popular writers have consistently claimed that nature had healing powers,” Kuo said. “But…

Business and Finance

Corporate Tax Holiday: Will It Boost the Economy?

Dhammika Dharmapala, a professor of law at Illinois, says that while the idea of a tax holiday has found favor among some politicians and presidential hopefuls…

Life & Chemistry

LSUHSC Discovery: Blocking ALS With Engineered Fruit Flies

The fruit flies were engineered to carry and express a mutated human FUS gene. This mutated FUS gene has been shown to be one of the major causes of both…

Life & Chemistry

New Biosensor Microchip Accelerates Drug Development Process

Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development. The microchips, packed with…

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