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Physics & Astronomy

Boosting Wind Turbine Efficiency: Key Innovations in 2023

A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new…

Life & Chemistry

In the test tube, teams reconstruct a cancer cell's beginning

The DNA molecule — the elegant, twin-stranded necklace of life in all cells — gets broken and repaired all the time. Breaks are caused by the body's metabolic…

Earth Sciences

Global CO2 Emissions Surge Again in 2010: A Closer Look

The study, which also involved the University of East Anglia (UK) and other global institutions, is part of the annual carbon budget update by the Global…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify Genes Connecting Puberty Timing and Body Fat

Many of these genes are also known to act on body weight regulation or biological pathways related to fat metabolism. This large new study of more than 100,000…

Studies and Analyses

Prostate Cancer Study Reveals No Link to Recurrence Risk

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that there is no link between localized prostate…

Event News

Inno.CNT Conference 2024: Advancing Carbon Nanomaterials

The focus will be on applications and technological requirements for carbon nanomaterials, especially in the fields of lightweight construction, mobility,…

Technology Offerings

New FRET Method Enhances Hsp90 High-Throughput Screening

The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) couples ATP hydrolysis

to conformational changes driving a reaction cycle that is required
…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Induces Complete Remission in Melanoma Mice

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers used a modified lentivirus to introduce a potent anti-melanoma T cell receptor gene into the hematopoietic…

Medical Engineering

First Successful Robotic Salivary Stone Removal at LSUHSC

Giant stones have traditionally required complete removal of the salivary gland. Building upon their success with the combination of salivary endoscopic…

Life & Chemistry

Well-Known Molecule May be Behind Alcohol’s Benefits to Heart Health

Many studies support the assertion that moderate drinking is beneficial when it comes to cardiovascular health, and for the first time scientists have…

Physics & Astronomy

RIT Scientists Simulate Extreme Black Hole Mergers 100:1 Mass Ratio

Scientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This…

Studies and Analyses

Addressing Poverty’s Impact on Violence Against Teenage Girls

The new results suggest violence prevention strategies need to focus more on local inequalities, especially to protect vulnerable adolescent girls.The survey…

Medical Engineering

New Body Imaging Technology Unveiled at Munich Hospital

The department of nuclear medicine at the university hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Munich Technical University today started clinical use testing…

Studies and Analyses

Bacteria use 'toxic darts' to disable each other, according to UCSB scientists

“The discovery of toxic darts could eventually lead to new ways to control disease-causing pathogens,” said Stephanie K. Aoki, first author and postdoctoral…

Physics & Astronomy

Spacecraft Flew Through 'Snowstorm' on Encounter with Comet Hartley 2

The resulting images and data shed new light on the nature and composition of comets, according to the University of Maryland-led EPOXI science team, which…

Studies and Analyses

New Hope for Multiple Sclerosis: ATL313 Injection Shows Promise

Watkins and her colleagues in CU-Boulder's department of psychology and neuroscience discovered that a single injection of a compound called ATL313 — an…

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