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Life & Chemistry

Evolution’s Blueprint: How Successful Cell Programs Recycle

The programs to develop these cells have been passed on ever since. The study which is published online by Nature Genetics has been supported by the GEN-AU…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST Targets Energy Efficiency in Ice Makers for Better Performance

With only one-fourth of the extra energy actually used to cool and freeze water, “there are substantial opportunities for efficiency improvements merely by…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Maximizing Solar Energy Efficiency: Innovations to Watch

The exploitation and utilization of new energy sources are considered to be among today's major challenges. Solar energy plays a central role, and its direct…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Using Computers and Sensors to Curb Electricity Use in Buildings

“It’s clear that sensors and computing are key to reducing the demand for electricity in office buildings,” said Yuvraj Agarwal, a research scientist in UC San…

Life & Chemistry

Hopkins Team Discovers How DNA Changes

Using human kidney cells and brain tissue from adult mice, Johns Hopkins scientists have uncovered the sequence of steps that makes normally stable DNA undergo…

Life & Chemistry

Eyes of rock let chitons see predators

Daniel Speiser, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara, studied mollusks that he collected in the…

Life & Chemistry

Astrocyte Discovery: Impact on Circadian Rhythms Uncovered

Neuroscientists from Tufts University School of Medicine found that disruption of astrocyte function in fruit flies (Drosophila) led to altered daily rhythms,…

Life & Chemistry

A Fluorescent Test System for Hunting Deadly Bacteria

You can’t see them, or smell them or taste them. They can be in our water and in our food, multiplying so rapidly that conventional testing methods for…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Messages: How Insects Use Antennae for Smell

Insects use their antennae for smelling and thus for locating resources in their environment. In an online first article published now, Max Planck researchers…

Awards Funding

Mandelkows Win Potamkin Prize for Structural Biology Advances

Drs Eva-Maria and Eckhard Mandelkow, researchers at the Max Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology at DESY (Hamburg) and at the German Center for…

Environmental Conservation

Wildlife Conservation Society and Idaho Fish and Game Track Pronghorn by Satellite

The GPS collars will provide scientists with tracking data collected during the migration of the animals between their summer ranges at the base of the Pioneer…

Earth Sciences

Data Catches Up with Theory: Ocean Front Is Energetic Contributor to Mixing

For more than two decades scientists have suspected there’s another – possibly substantial – source of energy for mixing that’s generated in the ocean where…

Studies and Analyses

Brain Starts Shrinking Nearly a Decade Before Alzheimer’s Appears

For the study, researchers used MRI scans to measure areas of the brain in people with no memory problems or other signs of Alzheimer’s, then followed them for…

Life & Chemistry

Biosensors: Sweet and simple

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a highly sensitive and versatile analytical tool that is widely used in biosensing applications. In conventional…

Physics & Astronomy

Microtechnology: Miniature magnetic switches

Transistors are commonly used in electronics as switches to turn an electrical current on or off. For applications that require a very large ratio between the…

Life & Chemistry

Transforming Publishing: Innovation in Mass Production Technology

When Gutenberg developed the principles of modern book printing, books became available to the masses. Hoping to bring technology capable of mass production to…

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