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Physics & Astronomy

LHC Experiments Offer New Insights into Primordial Universe

The ALICE experiment, which is optimised for the study of heavy ions, published two papers just a few days after the start of lead-ion running. Now, the first…

Studies and Analyses

Seeds of Gulf Dead Zones Are Draining from U.S. Farms

A study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Quality by a team from Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana found that tile…

Life & Chemistry

Isotopes Boost Species Protection: WWF and BfN Collaboration

Working in collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN, German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), and…

Health & Medicine

MHH Researchers scrutinize EC Regulation

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria and Germany, with Professor Dr Martin Hildebrandt, Integrated Research and Treatment Center…

Science Education

How a Low Carbon Economy Benefits Health and Climate

Certain actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions and thus reduce climate change can also directly improve human health, according to a statement from the…

Studies and Analyses

Breastfeeding While Taking Seizure Drugs May Not Harm Child’s IQ

“While more research is needed with larger numbers of women and their babies, these results are reassuring to women who want to give their babies all the…

Life & Chemistry

German Scientists Develop Precision Equipment for Interface Studies

Equipment built by German scientists can be used to study processes at interfaces with great accuracy. In an article published recently in ChemPhysChem, Hans…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals More About Biology of Energy Crop Insect

In an article in the Oct. 25, 2010, issue of the journal Zootaxa, researchers for the first time described the immature stages of the insect species…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Re-sequence Six Corn Varieties, Find Some Genes Missing

Differences in height, skin and eye color of humans, for example, are very noticeable, but are actually the consequences of very small variations in genetic…

Environmental Conservation

Pollution on Top of the World

Understanding the amount of pollutants in soil and snow is critical to maintaining the quality of alpine water sources, and is the subject of a study published…

Life & Chemistry

A High-Yield Biomass Alternative for Making Chemicals

Instead of buying petroleum by the barrel, chemical manufacturers will now be able to use relatively cheaper, widely available pyrolysis oils made from waste…

Materials Sciences

Researchers Capture Atomic Changes in Sapphire Properties

Peering through an electron microscope down to a level where a human hair would seem as wide as a washer and dryer set, they were able to quantify deviations…

Earth Sciences

Mammals’ Size Surge After Dinosaur Extinction Explained

Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get bigger – about a thousand times bigger than they had…

Studies and Analyses

Closing the Gender Gap in Physics with Writing Exercises

And the effects of these psychological factors can be largely overcome with a brief writing exercise focusing on important values, such as friends and family,…

Physics & Astronomy

Young Star Discovery Reveals Magnetic Fields in Cosmic Jets

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young star, a discovery that points toward future…

Life & Chemistry

High-Yield Biomass: A Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum

A team of University of Massachusetts Amherst chemical engineers report in today's issue of Science that they have developed a way to produce high-volume…

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