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Earth Sciences

New Zealand Earthquake Highlights Shallow Fault Risks

The New Zealand earthquake killed dozens – and some fear the death toll may rise to the hundreds – and was an aftershock of the much more powerful 7.1…

Studies and Analyses

Unemployed Spouse’s Stress Impacts Partner’s Job Performance

Associate Professor Maw-Der Foo of CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business studies employee workplace issues, including those related to interpersonal…

Earth Sciences

Tracking Lunar Larceny: The Dark Side of Moon Rocks

These black-market items are not of this world: They are moon rocks, collected decades ago by six Apollo missions and three unmanned Soviet missions to the…

Environmental Conservation

Local Wildlife Protection Safeguards Mammal Species Range

Charles Yackulic and colleagues analyzed historical range maps for 47 mammal species to find patterns that might help conservationists assess threats to animal…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Osteoporosis Drugs to Unusual Fractures

However, the drugs do prevent hip fractures. And, since the overall risk of thigh bone fractures caused by the drugs is low, women at high risk for hip and…

Health & Medicine

New Study Questions Effectiveness of Blood Test for Kids’ Diabetes

Doctors are increasingly using a convenient blood glucose test for diagnosing diabetes and pre-diabetes, but a study by the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott…

Transportation and Logistics

Revamped TES Portal: Safely Handle Dangerous Goods Today

In order to increase the safety of these transports, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) provides a lot of information about this topic…

Life & Chemistry

How Proteins Navigate Cells with New Addressing System

Calculations indicate that each human cell contains roughly a billion protein molecules. In other words, it's crowded inside the cell, and order must be…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking NK Cells: What Natural Killers Really Do

Experiments to investigate the function of NK cells have proven difficult to interpret because the interactions between the various components of the immune…

Studies and Analyses

Healthcare Disparities in Epilepsy: Low SES Patients Affected

A newly published report reveals patients with epilepsy and low socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to have uncontrolled seizures, drug-related side…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Sustainable Solutions for UK Wheat Production Challenges

At a time when the world is facing a growing global population and environmental change the project will be important to ensure the sustainability of wheat…

Life & Chemistry

Oldest Marine Mollusc Species Discovered: Polyconites Hadriani

The new species Polyconites hadriani, which was discovered in 2007, has been crowned the oldest in the Polyconites genus of the family Polyconitidae (rudists),…

Life & Chemistry

New Electronics: Manipulating Molecules for Tiny Gadgets

Such control may eventually play a role in the design of ultra-tiny electrical gadgets, created to perform myriad useful tasks, from biological and chemical…

Studies and Analyses

High Cholesterol and Blood Pressure Linked to Memory Issues

For the study, 3,486 men and 1,341 women with an average age of 55 underwent cognitive tests three times over 10 years. The tests measured reasoning, memory,…

Health & Medicine

New Tests Identify Burnout Risk Before Symptoms Appear

In addition to professional and personal suffering, burnout puts distressed workers at further risk of physical and psychological problems if ignored. This is…

Earth Sciences

Plankton key to origin of Earth's first breathable atmosphere

In a paper to appear in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Ohio State University researcher Matthew…

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