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The Present and Future of 3D

The Beginning of the 3D Era and the Boom Phenomenon2010 has been called the beginning of the 3D era, a year in which the term 3D frequently appeared in the…

Health & Medicine

Loyola Physician Shapes New Osteoporosis Treatment Guidelines

The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) has released new medical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of postmenopausal…

Physics & Astronomy

GRIN Plasmonics: Advancing Innovation in Optical Technologies

They said it could be done and now they’ve done it. What’s more, they did it with a GRIN. A team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s…

Studies and Analyses

Job Investment Linked to High Stress Levels, CAMH Study Reveals

In a survey of 2,737 workers, 18 per cent reported that their job was “highly stressful.” The odds of having high stress were greater if workers were managers…

Health & Medicine

Shunt Operation Enhances Cognitive Function in Dementia Patients

Presented in the American Journal of Neurosurgery, the results are based on the world’s first study to demonstrate the effects of a shunt operation using a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Dow AgriSciences, MU Researcher Develop a Way to Control “Superweed”

They are “superweeds” – undesirable plants that can tolerate multiple herbicides, including the popular gylphosate, also known as RoundUp – and they cost time…

Interdisciplinary Research

For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First

Or at least that’s not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard has discovered, as he reports in the January 10 online edition of…

Studies and Analyses

Identifying Factors in Atrazine’s Reduced Weed Control

In a collaborative study between scientists at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Water Management Research Unit and Colorado State University, soil…

Environmental Conservation

Could Oysters be Used to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay?

This nutrient pollution is prevalent in many coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems worldwide. Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in North America and…

Earth Sciences

Eggs Show Arctic Mercury Cycling May Be Linked to Ice Cover

Their study* is the latest work reported from the Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP), a multiyear joint effort of NIST, the U.S. Fish and…

Earth Sciences

Explore the New Alpine Info Exchange Platform for Experts

The Alpine region is especially sensitive to climate change and because of the restricted nature of the area available for habitation, people are particularly…

Health & Medicine

Culprit Identified for Stroke Risk in Diabetic Patients

Strokes are a leading cause of mortality and adult disability. Those that involve intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) are especially deadly, and…

Studies and Analyses

Global Pacts Like REDD Ignore Key Drivers of Forest Destruction

“Our findings suggest that disregarding the impact on forests of sectors such as agriculture and energy will doom any new international efforts whose goal is…

Physics & Astronomy

Curved Carbon: A Game Changer for Future Electronics

Researchers from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Japanese researchers, have shown how…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding a Key Plant Signaling System: New Research Insights

Although many steps of the pathway were already known, new research from a team including Carnegie's Ying Sun and Zhiyong Wang fills in a missing gap about the…

Life & Chemistry

New Discoveries Enhance Strategies to Combat HIV

HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps…

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