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New Method Traces Origins and Spread of Influential Ideas

Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Africa's success stories

But after four decades of relative stagnation, Africa has been growing rapidly. Since the 1990s, many African countries have seen economic and political…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovations in Science: Colorful Brains and Cooling Lasers

Scientists and engineers from around the world will gather on the shores of Lake Ontario in Rochester, N.Y. next week to discuss some of the latest…

Information Technology

Cloud4SOA Project Aims to Enhance Cloud Platform Interoperability

The European Commission FP7 funded Cloud4SOA initiative (Cloud Interoperability Framework and Platform for User-Centric, Semantically-Enhanced Service-Oriented…

Life & Chemistry

More than a century after the Gold Rush, mining an historical park’s lichen diversity

In article appearing in October in the journal The Bryologist, a team of researchers from Austria, Norway, Spain and the United States report the highest…

Health & Medicine

Burn Injuries Rapidly Deplete Vitamin E Levels in Children

Stored levels of this important antioxidant were reduced more in a few weeks than might normally be possible in years.An analysis of eight children with…

Life & Chemistry

New Coral Algae Found at Unexplored Depths of Black Corals

When most people envision coral, they typically think of shallow-water reef-building corals found along beaches and tropical nearshore habitats. These…

Health & Medicine

First Implantable Device for Balance Disorder Treatment

A University of Washington Medical Center patient on Thursday, Oct. 21, will be the world's first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling…

Studies and Analyses

Cost-Effective Follow-Up for Cervical Lesion Treatment

A study of the options for reducing cancer incidence and mortality among women who have been treated for precancerous cervical lesions found that an annual…

Studies and Analyses

Virtual Colonoscopy and Teleradiology Enhance Rural Cancer Screening

The study was performed at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in Fort Defiance, AZ, and Tuba City Regional Health Care Center in Tuba City, AZ, both of which are…

Life & Chemistry

Chemical Engineers Use Gold To Discover Breakthrough for Creating Biorenewable Chemicals

The scientific discovery could one day serve as the foundation for creating a wide range of consumer products from biorenewable carbon feedstocks, as opposed…

Physics & Astronomy

Short-Range Scattering in Quantum Dots Discovery Advances Novel Devices

Guodong Li and colleagues at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing carried out an experiment using self-assembled quantum dots and a…

Physics & Astronomy

Ten-Minute Plasma Treatment Improves Organic Memory Performance

While organic electronics are immediately attractive for their potential for extremely low cost and flexible substrates, many design aspects that are now taken…

Earth Sciences

Old Logging Practices Linked to High Erosion Rates

While logging practices have improved dramatically since then, the damaged landscape — the removal of low vegetation that helps to protect hillsides during…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover Eye Test for Neurological Diseases in Livestock

The findings suggest technologies and techniques can be developed to quickly and noninvasively test for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, progressive…

Materials Sciences

Intricate, Curving 3D Nanostructures Created Using Capillary Action Forces

The process is called “capillary forming,” and it takes advantage of capillary action, the phenomenon at work when liquids seem to defy gravity and travel up a…

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