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Power and Electrical Engineering

Economics, Physics Are Roadblocks for Mass-Scale Algae Biodiesel Production

“Fossil fuels are limited, and since we can't use more than what Earth offers, a lot of people are looking for alternative fuel sources like algae,” said Peter…

Environmental Conservation

World's Reef Fishes Tussling with Human Overpopulation

“Yet the complex nature and large-scale distribution of coral reefs is challenging scientists to understand if this natural ecosystem will continue working to…

Earth Sciences

La Nina Drives Down March 2011 Temperatures

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decadeMarch temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.: -0.10 C (about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit)…

Life & Chemistry

Biologists Pinpoint a Genetic Change That Helps Tumors Move to Other Parts of the Body

The researchers, led by Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, found the alteration while studying a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Innovative Pediatrics in Newborn Horses: Critical Care Insights

These factors are magnified in the critically ill foal, said Pamela Wilkins, a professor of equine internal medicine and emergency/critical care at the…

Life & Chemistry

Self-Made Eye: Optic Cup Formation from ES Cells

Developmental processes are increasingly well-characterized at the molecular and cell biological levels, but how more complex tissues and organs involving the…

Life & Chemistry

Early Detection: New Test for Pathogens in Food Safety

Germs in food, bioterrorism, drug-resistant bacteria and viruses—these are the problems of our time that make early detection of pathogens particularly…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Replacing batteries may become a thing of the past, thanks to 'soft generators'

A class of variable capacitor generators known as “dielectric elastomer generators” (DEGs) shows great potential for wearable energy harvesting. In fact,…

Environmental Conservation

Study Reveals Toxicity of Nanoparticles to Arctic Ecosystem

“Millions of tonnes of nanoparticles are now manufactured every year, including silver nanoparticles which are popular as antibacterial agents,” says Virginia…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Ray Technology Enhances Rice Crop Yields Efficiently

Into the CT scanner on a conveyor belt went little potted rice plants in an automated facility that could process 4,320 rice plants a day. The non-invasive CT…

Life & Chemistry

New Device Enhances Safety in Powerful Drug Delivery

Photosensitive chemicals are molecules that release single oxygen atoms and chemical radicals when illuminated. These radicals are very active chemically, and…

Health & Medicine

Adolescent body mass index can predict young adulthood diabetes and heart disease

A large cohort study following 37,000 teenagers for 17 years found that an elevated, yet normal range Body Mass Index (BMI) constitutes a substantial risk…

Studies and Analyses

Empowering Minority Youths With Refusal Skills Against Smoking

Nearly half of the 1.2 million AI/AN youths in the U.S. smoke cigarettes. A University of Missouri study found that public health strategies to combat smoking…

Health & Medicine

New PSA Test Delivers Accurate Prostate Cancer Diagnoses

In a large multi-center clinical trial, a new PSA test to screen for prostate cancer more accurately identified men with prostate cancer — particularly the…

Life & Chemistry

Nano Fit-ness: Helping Enzymes Stay Active and Keep in Shape

Proteins are critically important to life and the human body. They are also among the most complex molecules in nature, and there is much we still don’t know…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Battery-Less Chemical Detector: Innovative Solution by Livermore Researchers

The device overcomes the power requirement of traditional sensors and is simple, highly sensitive and can detect various molecules quickly. Its development…

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