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Expand Colorectal Cancer Screening During Mammography Visits

That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The results highlight the need…

Studies and Analyses

Anxiety Sensitivity: Key to Effective Treatment Insights

Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher and lead author Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD explained that anxiety sensitivity is the degree to which a person is…

Studies and Analyses

Contraband Cigarettes Fuel Youth Smoking in Ontario Schools

The study, published in the current edition of Tobacco Control, looked at the smoking habits of Ontario students and found that of high school daily smokers,…

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University hosts workshop with Europe’s leading Research Council

Society’s complex problems, including equity and environmental issues, are often better understood from the perspective of several disciplines, rather than…

Studies and Analyses

Marketing Researcher Sheds New Light on Rewards Programs

A new study by Rajesh Bagchi, assistant professor of marketing in the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, sheds new light on these programs, used by…

Physics & Astronomy

Isotope Near 'Doubly Magic' Tin-100 Flouts Conventional Wisdom

Experiments performed with the exotic nucleus tin-101, which has a single neutron orbiting tin-100's closed shell of 50 protons and 50 neutrons, indicate an…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Discover Proton Mechanism Used by Flu Virus to Infect Cells

The findings are published in the Oct. 22 issue of the journal Science. Hong, an Iowa State professor of chemistry and an associate of the U.S. Department of…

Environmental Conservation

From the Sewer to the Sound: Researchers Examining Effects of Household Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Marine Ecosystems

They view the slime, or biofilm, as a complex community that may hold the key to informing humanity of the true environmental impact of the chemical…

Materials Sciences

An Engineered Directional Nanofilm Mimics Nature’s Curious Feats

Being able to mimic these features at a larger scale would spur new advances in renewable energy and medicine. In a paper published in the October 10 issue of…

Studies and Analyses

Soot from Space Tourism Rockets: Climate Change Impact

The researchers assumed that a fast-growing suborbital space tourism market will develop over the next decade and examine the climate impact of soot and carbon…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Wayward Winds – Predicting The Output Of Wind Parks

The project, supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, thus creates a basis for optimised forecasts of wind park outputs – forecasts that can be used to make…

Life & Chemistry

Whole genome sequencing of Japanese individual reveals wealth of undiscovered genetic variation

The findings, based on the complete sequencing of the genome of a single Japanese individual, provide vital clues on the role of rare genetic variants in…

Materials Sciences

SEAL Project Boosts Europe’s Semiconductor Equipment Industry

The objective of this project is to speed up the market maturity of innovative and production-ready equipment and to foster cost-efficient equipment…

Physics & Astronomy

Trapping Charged Particles with Laser Light for Quantum Precision

In the past decades setups for trapping single particles have played a key role in high precision quantum measurements because they allow for an ultimate…

Environmental Conservation

Improving Baltic Sea Health with Advanced Mathematical Models

“The environmental state of the Baltic Sea is affected by many different processes at the same time and on several different time scales. Mathematical models…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Strategies for Skin Cancer Prevention Revealed

As such, new ways of encouraging these people to go to a dermatologist are being introduced, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg presented at…

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