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23% of Young Adults Experience Nighttime Fights

“Reports about young people being attacked or injured in fights when they go out at night are becoming increasingly common”, Amador Calafat, lead author of the…

Environmental Conservation

Invasive species — the biggest threat to fish in the Mediterranean basin

“The continental fish of the Mediterranean basin are one of the most threatened biological groups in the world”, Miguel Clavero, lead author of the study and a…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists at IRB Barcelona and BSC publish the world's largest video data bank of proteins

After four years of conducting intensive calculations in the supercomputer MareNostrum at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, scientists headed by Modesto…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into How the Amygdala Processes Fear

Fear arises in the almond-shaped brain structure known as the amygdala. It is the amygdala which processes the strange noise, shadowy figure or scary face and…

Machine Engineering

High-Performance Box PC: Power and Flexibility for Machines

The new device has almost double the processing power of its predecessor, and with five PCI/PCIe slots for expansion cards, it offers a high degree of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Light Transistor Uses Photons and Phonons for Innovation

The ability to control the propagation of light is at the technological heart of today’s telecommunication society. Researchers in the Laboratory of Photonics…

Studies and Analyses

UT Professors Show How Business and Politics Drive Success

A study by two College of Business Administration professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, found that when firms engage in corporate political…

Earth Sciences

African Dust Turns Southern Europe Red: A Surprising Study

The results of the study reveal that mineral dust from the African regions of the Sahara and Sahel, which emit between 600 and 700 tonnes of dust a year,…

Health & Medicine

Alcohol’s Hidden Dangers: Beyond Liver Damage Uncovered

Researchers released the latest findings on such negative effects of alcohol during a meeting Nov. 19 of the Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group,…

Studies and Analyses

Underground CO2 Storage Risks Drinking Water Contamination

Based on a year-long analysis of core samples from four drinking water aquifers, “We found the potential for contamination is real, but there are ways to avoid…

Physics & Astronomy

Sugar and Slice: New Method Boosts Graphene Production

Future computers may run a little sweeter, thanks to a refinement in the manufacture of graphene at Rice University.Rice researchers have learned to make…

Information Technology

New research provides effective battle planning for supercomputer war

Professor Stephen Jarvis, Royal Society Industry Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Department of Computer Science, will tell some of the 15,000 delegates…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Drug May Prevent Cyst Growth in Kidney Disease

Researchers from the schools of Science and Medicine at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic report this month…

Environmental Conservation

LSU Researcher Finds Toxic Algae in Open Ocean Waters

LSU’s Sibel Bargu, along with her former graduate student Ana Garcia, from the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences in LSU’s School of the Coast &…

Health & Medicine

Pneumonia Report Card: High-Burden Countries Fall Short

A Pneumonia Report Card released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) on behalf of the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia reveals…

Studies and Analyses

Brass Plumbing Devices Linked to Lead Contamination Risks

Lead is heavy metal that can harm the nervous system and brain development, and is especially dangerous for pregnant women, infants and children.The study,…

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