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Long-Term Investment in Education Research Yields Key Benefits

Speakers emphasized that education research based on long-term funding has led to important payoffs for education policy and practice in such areas as resource…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Thick Disc of Older Stars in Andromeda

The discovery of the thick disc, a major result from a five-year investigation, will help astronomers better understand the processes involved in the formation…

Life & Chemistry

Excess Protein Boosts Growth of Breast Cancer Stem Cells

An essential protein for normal stem cell renewal also promotes the growth of breast cancer stem cells when it's overproduced in those cells, researchers at…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite sees most of Cyclone Bingiza's rainfall over Mozambique Channel

When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Madagascar this morning, Feb. 15 at 11:11 UTC (6:11 a.m. EST), the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument read the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite sees two 'tropical fists' threatening Australia

System 97S was located about 210 nautical miles north-northwest of Learmonth, Western Australia, at 1800 UTC (1 p.m. EST), Feb. 15. It was centered near 19.2…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Tracks Tropical Cyclone Near Darwin, Australia

System 99S is a threat to Australia's Northern Territory because on Feb. 15 it was centered only 20 miles (32 km) south of Darwin, Australia, near 12.7 degrees…

Studies and Analyses

High Imaging Costs in Orthopaedics Driven by Defensive Practices

Nearly 35 percent of all the imaging costs ordered for 2,068 orthopaedic patient encounters in Pennsylvania were ordered for defensive purposes, according to a…

Life & Chemistry

Whole Genome Sequencing Enhances Cancer Therapy Insights

Whole genome sequencing — spelling out a person's entire DNA genetic code — has moved one step closer to being a medical option for direct patient care.Physicians and researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) successfully completed sequencing both a single patients normal and cancer cells – a tour de force of more than 6 billion DNA chemical bases….

Process Engineering

Copper Powder Components: New Horizons in Rapid Manufacturing

Rapid Manufacturing is making triumphant progress in industrial production as it enables digitized design engineering data to be directly and quickly…

Earth Sciences

New Deep-Sea Vents Discovered with Stunning Underwater Camera

Using an underwater camera system, the researchers saw slender mineral spires three metres tall, with shimmering hot water gushing from their peaks, and…

Life & Chemistry

Culling can't control deadly bat disease

White-nose syndrome, which is estimated to have killed over a million bats in a three year period, is probably caused by a newly discovered cold-adapted…

Studies and Analyses

NIH study finds 2 pesticides associated with Parkinson's disease

The study was a collaborative effort conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), which is part of the National…

Social Sciences

Family Playtime: Strengthening Generational Bonds Through Fun

A new study has confirmed an old adage: A family that plays together stays together. Researchers from Concordia University and Wilfrid Laurier University…

Health & Medicine

Stem Cell Transplants Show Promise for Kidney Damage Recovery

The study, authored by a research team from the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, is published in the current issue of Cell Medicine [1(3)] and is freely…

Life & Chemistry

Designer Bacteria: Uncovering Nature’s Hidden Spy

Bacteria are widely used to manufacture proteins used in medicine and industry, but the bugs often bungle the job. Many proteins fall apart and get cut up…

Life & Chemistry

100 New Lichenized Fungi Species Discovered by Field Museum

In an unprecedented coming-out party, 100 newly discovered species are revealed to the world in a single scholarly paper coordinated by Field Museum scientists.

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