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Studies and Analyses

Video Games Proven Effective for Employee Training

Long derided as mere entertainment, new research now shows that organizations using video games to train employees end up with smarter, more motivated workers…

Materials Sciences

University of Houston Professor Advances Graphene Research

Graphene has several properties that make it different from literally everything else on Earth: it is the first two-dimensional material ever developed; the…

Science Education

Boost Student Performance Through Peer Learning Strategies

At least, if a group of them meet an older student once a week during the first semester to discuss and solve maths problems and other difficult exercises from…

Health & Medicine

Smart Diet Choices Cut Diabetes and Heart Disease Risks

The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood lipids by 14 per cent, blood pressure by 8 per cent and a risk marker…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment Offers Hope for Type 1 Gaucher Disease

The new findings could lead to less expensive and more effective ways to treat the disorder, which affects about 1 in 50,000 people in the general population….

Medical Engineering

Recycling Pacemakers: A Global Solution for Heart Disease

Millions worldwide die each year because they can't afford a pacemaker. Meanwhile heart patients in the United States say they'd be willing to donate theirs…

Health & Medicine

Spinal Osteoporotic Fractures: A Global Health Concern

“The widespread under–diagnosis and lack of treatment of spinal fractures, leaves millions of people around the world with chronic pain, deformity, disability…

Studies and Analyses

TEEB report puts world's natural assets on the global political radar

“TEEB has documented not only the multi-trillion dollar importance to the global economy of the natural world, but the kinds of policy-shifts and smart market…

Business and Finance

Americans Rethink Work During Recession: Insights from Study

Those are some of the findings of a recent study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration in the Florida State…

Environmental Conservation

Biologist Hopes New ‘Condos’ Will Help Galápagos Penguins Stave Off Extinction

Just as Habitat for Humanity crews help build houses for people who need shelter, Dee Boersma’s team in late September built 120 “condominiums” for penguins….

Life & Chemistry

Four New Psoriasis ‘Hotspots’ Identified by Geneticists

Using cutting-edge methods to peer into the hidden genetic underpinnings of the disabling and disfiguring disease, the research, published in Nature Genetics,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Paraquat Resistance Discovered in Annual Ryegrass

For the first time, researchers have found that annual ryegrass has developed resistance to paraquat, the second most important “knockdown” herbicide used by…

Physics & Astronomy

Pinwheel of Star Birth

The arms are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, newborn blue star clusters, and obscuring dust lanes that provide the raw material for…

Materials Sciences

New Nano Techniques Integrate Electron Gas-Producing Oxides with Silicon

A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Materials Science and Engineering Professor Chang-Beom Eom has demonstrated methods to harness essentially this…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Nanomachines Enhance Sugar Juice Flow From Plants

The sugar that is consumed by people is obtained predominantly from sugar cane and sugar beets. Plants produce the sweet, energy-rich substance during…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Infrared LED Technology Detects Drivers in Microsleep

In addition to the IR-LED, this requires a suitable camera with a CMOS sensor. The sensor detects IR light at a wavelength of 850 nanometers, which isn't…

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