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Health & Medicine

Mayo Clinic Unveils Lifetime Risk of Adult Rheumatoid Arthritis

VIDEO ALERT: Additional audio and video resources, including excerpts from an interview with Cynthia Crowson describing the research, are available on the Mayo…

Studies and Analyses

Consumers Favor Matching Colors in Athletic Shoe Design

When consumers were asked to choose colors for seven different parts of an athletic shoe, they tended to pick identical or similar colors for nearly every…

Medical Engineering

Faster Brain Scans: Breakthrough in MRI Technology

An international team of physicists and neuroscientists has reported a breakthrough in magnetic resonance imaging that allows brain scans more than seven times…

Studies and Analyses

School-Based Interventions Combat Childhood Obesity Challenges

Thanks to the Let's Move initiative, society is becoming more aware of alarming statistics like 1 in 4 children are obese and childhood obesity has nearly…

Architecture & Construction

Haitian Concrete Innovation: Safe, Strong, and Affordable Solutions

In a paper published today in the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society, researchers Reginald R. DesRoches, Kimberly E. Kurtis and Joshua J. Gresham say…

Corporate News

Start-up of 5m plate mill: Siemens commission plate rolling mill at Xiangtan Iron & Steel

Siemens engineered and supplied all key process technology for the new Xiangtan Iron & Steel two stand plate mill. This included the mechanical equipment for…

Business and Finance

Some Banks Help Keep Mortgage Holders Out of Default

Researchers found that low-income homeowners who received a mortgage from a local lender were less likely to default on their loans than are those who borrowed…

Health & Medicine

Einstein-Montefiore Researcher Will Test Nanoparticles Against Pancreatic Cancer

The research – carried out by a group of five institutions, including Einstein, that comprise the Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine – could lead to novel…

Environmental Conservation

The Ecosystem Engineer: Research Looks at Beavers' Role in River Restoration

Beavers are often called ecosystem engineers because they can radically alter stream or valley bottom ecosystems, said Melinda Daniels, an associate professor…

Studies and Analyses

Wastewater Treatment Lowers Pathogen Levels

Their analysis indicates pathogens levels have dropped since the implementation of federal regulations on treating sewage in 1993. These treatment guidelines…

Power and Electrical Engineering

“Nanoscoops” Could Spark New Generation of Electric Automobile Batteries

An entirely new type of nanomaterial developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could enable the next generation of high-power rechargeable lithium (Li)-ion…

Life & Chemistry

Mimicking Nature: Chemists Transform Molecules Into Objects

Organic Chemists have always been trying to imitate biology. Although it is possible to make many molecules that imitate biomolecules in terms of structure and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

VTT Unveils Unique Fuel Cell System for Future Power Solutions

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is showing promise with regard to future electricity production. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has built a…

Studies and Analyses

How to look younger without plastic surgery

How to look younger without plastic surgery? Psychologists of the Jena University (Germany) have a simple solution to this question: Those who want to look…

Environmental Conservation

Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media

Further claims that the oceans are filled with more plastic than plankton, and that the patch has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s are equally…

Life & Chemistry

Obesity research targets the brain’s use of fatty acids

The research team, led by Hong Wang, PhD, created mice with a deficiency of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) in neurons, and observed two important reactions. First,…

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