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Life & Chemistry

New Water Filter Eliminates Disease-Causing Bacteria Safely

The technology could aid many of the almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water. A report on the work appears in the American…

Health & Medicine

PTSD Measures Spotlighted for Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Danny G. Kaloupek, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine, chaired the work group on…

Health & Medicine

New Insights: Breaks from Osteoporosis Drugs Boost Bone Health

“These drugs are potentially harmful when taken for long durations, yet little has been known until now about the length of time osteoporosis patients should…

Information Technology

Factors That Drive Success in Software Firms Today

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, news about 20-somethings becoming billionaires from the sale of their software companies flooded the media, giving the…

Studies and Analyses

Redefining Borders: Understanding Our Evolving Connections

What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think…

Health & Medicine

New Tool Assesses Blood Clot Risk Post-Plastic Surgery

Patients undergoing plastic or reconstructive surgery should receive a risk assessment before their procedure to predict whether they'll develop potentially…

Studies and Analyses

Study shows importance of exercise for those at special risk for Alzheimer's

Physical activity promotes changes in the brain that may protect high-risk individuals against cognitive decline, including development of Alzheimer's disease,…

Awards Funding

E.ON Research Award 2010 Honors Dresden’s Fraunhofer Institute

Researchers of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Dresden, Germany, succeeded at this year’s presentation…

Life & Chemistry

UGA Researchers Discover Enzyme Key to Breast Cancer Growth

When the GnT-V enzyme activity in the cells was increased in mammary gland cells, they increased proliferation and began to take on many characteristics of…

Studies and Analyses

Name Your Price: A Pricing Strategy Aimed at Achieving Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit

Nelson says the concept of “shared social responsibility,” a term coined by the study’s authors, may provide the sustainability component often lacking in…

Studies and Analyses

Understaning a Vulnerable Species

Hunted for centuries for their oil (and until the 1970s for dog food), there may be only 160 of these gentle giants in the population found off Nova Scotia. In…

Earth Sciences

Lessons From Deepwater

But though gulf residents fear that they will be forgotten as cleanup crews pack up and leave, the inquiry into the oil leak is only beginning on scientific…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Captures New Life in an Ancient Galaxy

But new observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are helping to show that elliptical galaxies still have some youthful vigor left, thanks to encounters…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Delta Dore Introduces Wireless Heating Control to UK Homes

Delta Dore is a French company with 40 years’ expertise on the heating-control market in France, Germany and Spain, and is a recognised specialist in wireless…

Studies and Analyses

Online Undergrads Thrive Despite Weaker Class Connections

College students participating in a new study on online courses said they felt less connected and had a smaller sense of classroom community than those who…

Health & Medicine

Study shows importance of exercise for those at special risk for Alzheimer's

Physical activity promotes changes in the brain that may protect high-risk individuals against cognitive decline, including development of Alzheimer's disease,…

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