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Transportation and Logistics

George Mason Students Address Distracted Driving Risks

The demonstration made its first appearance at the October 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC, where the GMU students partnered with…

Health & Medicine

Sodium’s Impact on Stress Response: New UC Study Insights

New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that elevated levels of sodium blunt the body's natural responses to stress by inhibiting stress…

Life & Chemistry

Study maps hotspots of genetic rearrangement

Researchers have zoomed in on mouse chromosomes to map hotspots of genetic recombination — sites where DNA breaks and reforms to shuffle genes.The findings of…

Studies and Analyses

Opioid Prescription Analysis Reveals Alarming Trends

An analysis of national prescribing patterns shows that more than half of patients who received an opioid prescription in 2009 had filled another opioid…

Medical Engineering

Using MRI, researchers may predict which adults will develop Alzheimer's

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an intermediate stage between the decline in mental abilities that occurs in normal aging and the more pronounced…

Studies and Analyses

Socioeconomics playing reduced role in autism diagnoses

While there is an increasing equality in terms of the likelihood that children from communities and families across the socioeconomic spectrum will be…

Studies and Analyses

Survey Reveals 72% of Americans Want Health Care Overhaul

Seven of 10 adults think the U.S. health care system needs to be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey released…

Life & Chemistry

Birds Face Tough Choices: Mating or Migrating? Study Insights

A team led by Guelph researchers discovered that for some male birds traveling to areas with lighter rainfall comes at the cost of attracting a female when…

Physics & Astronomy

Frozen Comet Reveals Surprising Evidence of Liquid Water

For the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence for the presence of liquid water in a comet, shattering the current paradigm that comets never…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Adaptation Shows Life on Early Earth Lived in a Hot, Acidic Environment

The study found that a group of ancient enzymes known as thioredoxin were chemically stable at temperatures up to 32 degrees Celsius (58 degrees Fahrenheit)…

Life & Chemistry

Algae That Live Inside the Cells of Salamanders Are the First Known Vertebrate Endosymbionts

This is the first known example of a eukaryotic algae living stably inside the cells of any vertebrate.”It raises the possibility that more animal/algae…

Earth Sciences

When African Animals Hit the Hay

The first animals to hit the hay – technically warm-season grasses known as C4 plants – were zebras’ ancestors, starting 9.9 million years ago. Next, some but…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanoparticles Improve Solar Collector Efficiency

Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels are popping up more and more on rooftops, but they’re not necessarily the best solar power solution. “The big limitation of PV…

Machine Engineering

Boost Plant Availability With Redundant Server Systems

The S7 OPC Redundancy application allows the design of redundant server systems for fail-safe connection of HMI devices within Industrial Ethernet or PROFIBUS…

Environmental Conservation

Lithium in Drinking Water: Impact on Andean Village Women

Swedish researchers have now found that women in four mountain villages in Argentinean Andes Mountains ingest so much lithium via the groundwater that this…

Life & Chemistry

Flightless Firefly Females Miss Out on Male Gifts

Every parent with young children knows that couples need to work together to accomplish the myriad tasks waiting both at work and at home. But it may come as a…

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