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Boosting Survival: Intensive Chemotherapy for Teenage Leukemia

More effective risk-adjusted chemotherapy and sophisticated patient monitoring helped push cure rates to nearly 88 percent for older adolescents enrolled in a…

Studies and Analyses

Waterways Linked to Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Based on this new study, the role of rivers and streams as a source of nitrous oxide to the atmosphere now appears to be twice as high as estimated by the…

Health & Medicine

New Breathing Therapy Eases Panic and Anxiety Symptoms

A new treatment program teaches people who suffer from panic disorder how to reduce the terrorizing symptoms by normalizing their breathing.The method has…

Studies and Analyses

Menthol Cigarette Quit Rates: Challenges for Minority Smokers

Recent studies have consistently found that racial/ethnic minority smokers of menthol cigarettes have a lower quit rate than comparable smokers of regular…

Awards Funding

EFCE Unveils 2011 Student Award for Young Innovators

The biennial award, which will be presented at the 8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) in Berlin, Germany next year, promotes and rewards…

Health & Medicine

Nasal Congestion Linked to Severe Asthma: New Study Insights

Published in the online scientific journal Respiratory Research, the population study included 30,000 randomly selected participants from the west of Sweden…

Health & Medicine

Electronic Nose Detects Cancer Through Unique Scent Technology

In a previous project György Horvath used specially trained dogs to demonstrate that ovarian cancers emit a specific scent. The dogs were able to use this…

Health & Medicine

Training Optimal Treatments for Tennis Elbow Recovery

The thesis describes, among other topics, the selection of treatment by healthcare personnel, their experiences when treating patients with tennis elbow, and…

Process Engineering

Information from deep underground in a matter of seconds

The most common methods for mining mineral reserves are drilling, blasting and cutting. In order to decide which areas are worth mining, a mine operator needs…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Raindrops Unlock Secrets of Mountains’ Formation

The data providing the insight into the mountains – so popularly renowned for durability – came from one of the most ephemeral of sources: raindrops. Or more…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum or not?

Understanding the transport of electrons in nanostructures and biological molecules is crucial to understanding properties such as electrical conductivity or…

Life & Chemistry

Fish frozen in fear

A brain structure called the habenula is crucial for modifications of fear responses in zebrafish, according to a new study by researchers from the RIKEN Brain…

Physics & Astronomy

Opening the door to new forms of matter at the Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory

Matter can show a wide variety of states and forms, including liquids, solids and gases, and metals, semiconductors, insulators and superconductors. Research…

Environmental Conservation

Extinctions, Loss of Habitat Harm Evolutionary Diversity

The message from the study, appearing online ahead of publication in Ecology Letters, says lead author Hélène Morlon, is that evolutionary diversity — the…

Environmental Conservation

Efficient Phosphorus Use by Marine Phytoplankton Unveiled

A team led by Patrick Martin of the National Oceanography Centre has shown that a species of planktonic marine alga can rapidly change the chemical composition…

Physics & Astronomy

Lunar Eclipse Meets Winter Solstice on December 21

With frigid temperatures already blanketing much of the United States, the arrival of the winter solstice on December 21 may not be an occasion many people…

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