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Uterine Health: Key to Fertility Over Egg Quality

The study was conducted by Dr. William Gibbons, director of The Family Fertility Program at Texas Children's Hospital and professor of obstetrics and…

Life & Chemistry

NIST Technique Optimizes Nanoparticle Cluster Sizes for EHS

One particular characteristic, the tendency for nanoparticles to clump together in solution, is of great interest because the size of these clusters may be key…

Studies and Analyses

Ending Smoggy Inversions: Insights From Innovative Field Study

During the past two months, researchers launched weather balloons, drove instrument-laden cars and flew a glider to study winter inversions that often choke…

Life & Chemistry

Weak Electrical Fields Boost Neuron Firing in the Brain

The brain—awake and sleeping—is awash in electrical activity, and not just from the individual pings of single neurons communicating with each other. In fact,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Air-Conditioned Greenhouse Uses Alternative Energies for Crops

The novel system has a biomass boiler and thermodynamic solar panels, which reach an optimum temperature for the crop without using fuels derived from…

Physics & Astronomy

First Evidence of Spherical Magnesium-32 Nucleus Unveiled

Elements heavier than iron come into being only in powerful stellar explosions, supernovae. During nuclear reactions all kinds of short-lived atomic nuclei are…

Medical Engineering

New nanoparticles make blood clots visible

Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that they have designed nanoparticles that find clots and make them visible to…

Physics & Astronomy

UF Astronomers Discover Six Planets Orbiting One Star

The NASA team, including UF associate professor Eric Ford, postdoctoral associate Althea Moorhead and graduate student Robert Morehead, will announce its…

Business and Finance

Social Media Boost Return on Super Bowl Ad Dollars

Marketing expert Scott Hamula says those sponsors are also finding more ways than ever to expand that audience through the use of social media.“It’s likely…

Studies and Analyses

Gestures Provide a Helping Hand in Problem Solving

Talking with your hands can trigger mental images that help solve complex problems relating to spatial visualization, an important skill for both students and…

Physics & Astronomy

Extreme x-ray pulses create unique image of intact virus

But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid…

Life & Chemistry

Diesel From Waste: Advancements in Biodiesel Innovation

For the last ten years, biodiesel in the form of fatty acid methyl ester has been promoted as a replacement for fossil-fuel-based diesel fuel. It was soon…

Studies and Analyses

Metabolic Syndrome: New Link to Memory Loss in Seniors

Metabolic syndrome was defined as having three or more of the following risk factors: high blood pressure, excess belly fat, higher than normal triglycerides…

Life & Chemistry

The human genome’s breaking points

A detailed analysis of data from 185 human genomes sequenced in the course of the 1000 Genomes Project, by scientists at the European Molecular Biology…

Studies and Analyses

Lower Back Disease: Is It In Your Genes? New Study Insights

Symptomatic lumbar disc disease, a condition caused by degeneration or herniation of the discs of the lower spine, may be inherited, according to a new study…

Health & Medicine

Benefits of Losing Body Fat Before Pregnancy for Baby’s Health

In the midst of this trend, UT Health Science Center San Antonio obstetrics researchers are studying the question: If mothers lose body fat before pregnancy,…

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