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Life & Chemistry

New Gene Linked to Familial ALS Discovered by Researchers

Using a new gene sequencing method, a team of researchers led by scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health has discovered a gene that…

Materials Sciences

New Blast-Resistant Glass Enhances Safety in Extreme Conditions

Whether in a hurricane, tornado, or bomb attack, a leading cause of injury and death is often fast-flying shards of glass. Explosions and high winds can cause…

Earth Sciences

New Method Uses Lightning to Monitor Volcanic Ash Clouds

New research, to be published today, Friday 10 December, in IOP Publishing's Environmental Research Letters, shows that lightning could be used as part of an…

Studies and Analyses

Parents' Influence On Children’s Eating Habits is Limited

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reviewed and assessed the degree of association and similarity between children’s and…

Earth Sciences

Climate Scientist Warns of Possible Widespread Suffering Coming

One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we…

Life & Chemistry

Bizarre Crocodile Fossil Discovered Dispels Notion That These Reptiles are Static and Unchanging

We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But according to researchers at Stony Brook University in…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Biomineralization: Insights from Advanced Modeling

A University of Akron researcher is leveraging advanced modeling and simulation techniques to more precisely understand how organic materials bond to inorganic…

Life & Chemistry

Pyrroles: Key Innovations in Hemoglobin and Chlorophyll

Pyrroles, which are rings containing one nitrogen and four carbon atoms, are essential components of our red hemoglobin as well as the green chlorophyll in…

Technology Offerings

Artificial Fingerprint: A New Era in Identification Technology

This invention describes a medium for identification and authentification goods, based on periodic, three-dimensional surface structures.

Life & Chemistry

Soaring vs. Flapping: How Birds Save Energy in Flight

Large birds, such as storks, save energy on the flight to their wintering grounds by soaring through the air on thermal currents. Until now, however, we knew…

Health & Medicine

New QRISK Score Predicts Heart Disease Risk in Youth

Using data from the electronic health records of over two and half million people researchers have developed, validated and evaluated the new lifetime 'score'…

Earth Sciences

Elevated Arsenic Found in Maine Water Wells: Key Insights

Potentially harmful arsenic levels have been found in private water wells in towns across Maine where elevated arsenic risks were not previously suspected. …

Information Technology

Greedy Algorithms Enhance Target Protection in TEWA Systems

So-called TEWA systems (Threat Evaluation & Weapon Allocation) are used to protect strategic targets from enemy attacks, such as an airfield that needs to be…

Earth Sciences

Talk at Cancun is of 2 degrees Celsius – even 1.5 degrees would have effects lasting centuries

This is due to a change in ocean-atmosphere heat exchange, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research discovered. Heat in lower oceanic…

Materials Sciences

Breakthrough in Spintronics: A Single Chip for Processing & Memory

Published this week in the journal Nature Materials, this important discovery opens up the prospect of simultaneously processing and storing data on electrons…

Physics & Astronomy

Rice Physicists Unveil Ultrasensitive Microwave Detector

Physicists from Rice University and Princeton University have discovered how to use one of the information technology industry's mainstay materials — gallium…

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