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Non-Alcoholic Energy Drinks May Pose 'High' Health Risks

Highly-caffeinated energy drinks – even those containing no alcohol – may pose a significant threat to individuals and public health, say researchers at the…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists turn gold to purple – on purpose

Professor Richard Watt and his chemistry students suspected that a common protein could potentially react with sunlight and harvest its energy – similar to…

Physics & Astronomy

Rockets Launching from Poker Flat Research Range on Jan. 26

In the experiment set to launch on Jan. 26, if winds are favorable, researchers from the University of Colorado will use a rocket at the top of its arc 200…

Life & Chemistry

Spring-Loaded Filaree Seeds: Nature’s Ingenious Launch Mechanism

Even by invading plants' standards, the filaree, or common stork's bill, has been remarkably successful. Introduced into North America in the eighteenth…

Studies and Analyses

Denmark, Finland, Belgium: Leaders in Global Democracy Rankings

Diagnoses of a crisis of democracy are as old as democracy itself; they are a common theme in the political discourse of the Western world. However, until now…

Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers and Clinical Partners Identify Mediator of Blood Pressure Regulation in the Liver

Now, Dr. Stefan Lechner and Professor Gary R. Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) Berlin, Professor Friedrich C. Luft of the Experimental and Clinical…

Earth Sciences

Unlocking Climate Secrets from the Mariana Trench

For the first time scientists from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), the…

Event News

Soft Embedding Innovations in High-Performance Wind Turbines

The rapid developments in wind turbines should not mislead us to overlook the fact that often in turbines, particularly of high performance categories,…

Physics & Astronomy

Soap Films Solve Variational Math Problems in Physics

“With the aid of soap films we have solved variational mathematical problems, which appear in the formulation of many physical problems”, explains Carlos…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Reduces Defects in LED GaN Thin Films

LED lighting relies on GaN thin films to create the diode structure that produces light. The new technique reduces the number of defects in those films by two…

Environmental Conservation

Mercury Legacy: Bay Area Fish and California’s Mining History

Mercury mining and gold recovery in the mid-1800s to late 1900s, combined with present day oil refineries, chemical manufacturing plants and wastewater…

Studies and Analyses

Study Discovers Molecular Network That Influences Development Of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

The research was led by investigators at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research…

Materials Sciences

New Method Transforms Protein-Polymer Production Efficiency

These novel sequences of recombinant DNA are used to produce repetitive proteins to create new types of drugs and bioengineered tissues. Current methods for…

Health & Medicine

Deep Brain Stimulation Shows Promise for High Blood Pressure

The report involved one man who received a deep brain stimulator to treat his pain from central pain syndrome that developed after a stroke. Deep brain…

Studies and Analyses

Engineers Increasing Wireless Speed

“The U.S. government has noted that broadband wireless access technologies are a key foundation for economic growth, job creation, global competitiveness, and…

Life & Chemistry

Bugs Might Convert Biodiesel Waste Into New Fuel

A graduate student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville is developing biological tools to make products from crude glycerol — a waste material from the…

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