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Materials Sciences

New High-Performance Material Set to Transform Electronics

The discovery, just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials, outlines the creation for the first time of a high-performance…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Research team 'watches' formation of cells' protein factories for first time

For Immediate Release – A team from The Scripps Research Institute has revealed the first-ever pictures of the formation of cells' “protein factories.” In…

Life & Chemistry

Shuttle Mice Enhancing Disease Research on Discovery’s Final Flight

When the space shuttle Discovery lifts off on its final flight Nov. 2, its six astronauts will be joined by 16 rodent passengers on a historic mission of their…

Health & Medicine

Immune system's bare essentials used to speedily detect drug targets

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have taken a less-is-more approach to designing effective drug treatments that are precisely tailored to disease-causing pathogens,…

Earth Sciences

New System Speeds Up Monitoring of Ocean Vital Signs

The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years – a rising trend that could both…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers could use plant's light switch to control cells

Researchers could use this novel “on-off switch” to control cell growth or death, grow new tissue or deliver doses of medication directly to diseased cells,…

Life & Chemistry

New Agents Simplify Study of Essential Cell Membrane Proteins

But these gateways — proteins that span the cell membrane and connect the world outside the cell to its vital inner workings – remain, for the most part,…

Life & Chemistry

Immune system assassin's tricks visualised for the first time

The UK team, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wellcome Trust, is based at Birkbeck College where they used…

Event News

Crisis as Opportunity: State, Markets and Communities in Turbulent Times – International Conference

The aftermath of the financial crisis has triggered a debate on the future of governance and the relation between states, markets and civil societies, both…

Earth Sciences

Mars Volcanic Deposit Reveals Warm, Wet Ancient Environment

A team led by planetary geologists at Brown University has discovered mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone less than 3.5 billion years ago that…

Studies and Analyses

Large Protected Areas: Wilderness vs. Rare Species Conservation

The world's largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest priority areas for conservation or include…

Studies and Analyses

Health Care Costs Soar Due to Intentional Swallowing Incidents

A new study from Rhode Island Hospital found that 33 individuals were responsible for 305 cases of medical intervention to remove foreign bodies that were…

Health & Medicine

New Screening Test Validated for Adolescent Depression

Primary-care clinicians know teen depression is common, but they've lacked a reliable screening test for it. Now researchers at the University of Washington…

Studies and Analyses

Boost Relationship Skills With Self-Awareness Insights

A little self-awareness can help people struggling in the world of relationships, says Jeffrey Hall, assistant professor of communication studies at the…

Studies and Analyses

Peanut Consumption During Pregnancy May Heighten Allergy Risk

Led by Scott H. Sicherer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, researchers at five U.S. study sites…

Health & Medicine

New Method Archives Patient Radiation Dose Information

To facilitate access to and analysis of radiation dose information, researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA,…

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