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IBEX Reveals Stunning Images of Magnetotail Structures

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image the invisible interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, captured…

Studies and Analyses

UT Researcher Reveals Surprising Benefits of Power and Corruption

They are familiar scenes: politicians bemoaning the death of family values only for extramarital affairs to be unveiled or politicians preaching financial…

Health & Medicine

Y-90 Radioembolization: New Hope for Late-Stage Liver Cancer

The glass spheres contain a radioactive element, yttrium-90, more commonly known as Y-90, which emits radiation for a very limited distance so that healthy…

Health & Medicine

Study: Ventilation Changes Could Double Lung Transplants

Simple changes to how ventilators are used could almost double the number of lungs available for transplants, according to new international research involving…

Earth Sciences

Innovative Solutions for Erosion at Hanford River Island

The island is part of the Hanford Reservation, which is managed by the Department of Energy. So the DOE has turned to a team of researchers headed by David…

Health & Medicine

Breast Inflammation’s Role in Cancer Growth Revealed by Kimmel Researchers

It took 12 years and a creation of a highly sophisticated transgenic mouse, but researchers at Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have finally proven a long…

Health & Medicine

UNC Scientists Unveil Strategy to Enhance Cancer Vaccines

One of the challenges is identifying a discrete cellular target to stop cancer growth without inactivating the immune system. Scientists at UNC Lineberger…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Hip Replacement Delays: Patient Insights

Drawing on around 40,000 responses from patients selected from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, the thesis looks at how hip replacement patients perceive…

Science Education

Exclusions and Power in Open Higher Education Reform

Since the 1990s there has a been a range of Swedish policy reforms calling for Swedish higher education to be more open, flexible and accessible.New governanceIn particular, notable importance was placed on distance and IT-based education. While the issue of access to higher education has long been viewed as an important factor in educational policy, a partly new approach to governance took shape during the 1990s and beyond….

Health & Medicine

Rationalisation Measures Harm Work Environment, Study Finds

A research study published in the journal Applied Ergonomics reveals that rationalisation measures often have a major negative impact on both the physical and…

Life & Chemistry

Biological Computers: Researchers Explore Engineered Cells

“Even though engineered cells can’t do the same job as a real computer, our study paves the way for building complex constructions from these cells,” says…

Studies and Analyses

Swedes Report Increased Happiness in Recent Survey Findings

More and more Swedes are describing themselves as happy and content. When the SOM Institute asked: “On balance, how content are you with the life you live?”…

Studies and Analyses

Children Exposed to Fast Food Ads During TV Time

Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that Sweden is no different from other countries when it comes to the number of adverts that children…

Earth Sciences

Bering Sea’s Ice-Free Era: Life Thrived in Warm Period

Christina Ravelo, professor of ocean sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present the new findings in a talk on December 13 at the fall…

Physics & Astronomy

Capasso lab demonstrates highly unidirectional 'whispering gallery' microlasers

Utilizing a century-old phenomenon discovered in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, applied scientists at Harvard University have demonstrated, for the first time,…

Environmental Conservation

Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish

Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a set of numerical models, solved by computers, to study how changing water pressure and speed around…

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