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Life & Chemistry

Penn Study Gives Hope for New Class of Alzheimer’s Disease Drugs

A new Penn study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found and tested in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease a class of drug that is…

Physics & Astronomy

ORNL theorist part of team that discovers unexpected magnetism

The results, published in Nature Communications, have special significance for the design of future electronic devices for computations and telecommunications,…

Studies and Analyses

Short Messages and Earthquakes: Exploring Their Statistical Link

The occurrence of these events is apparently chaotic but they obey the same statistical principles, a German-Chinese team of scientists around Jürgen Kurths…

Social Sciences

A Suit sends multiple signals

Anna Hedtjärn Wester has done research into men in suits among three different groups in society a century ago: princes, artists, and hod-carriers. At the turn…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D Deficiency Increases Lung Transplant Rejection Risk

Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a significant increase in lung transplant rejection, according to research conducted at Loyola University Health System…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Nanocrystal Growth Boost Nanotechnology Potential

Nanoparticles are the foundation of nanotechnology and their performance depends on their structure, composition, and size. Researchers will now be able to…

Health & Medicine

Diabetic adults' conditions improved after phone calls with fellow patients

Phone calls with a peer facing the same self-management challenges helped diabetes patients manage their conditions and improved their blood sugar levels…

Studies and Analyses

New Fish Model Inspires Design of Robots and Prosthetics

Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the…

Studies and Analyses

Power vs. Poverty: How Spending Reflects Values

“We ask whether the powerful and powerless differentially value the self versus others, and whether this, in turn, translates into observable differences in…

Studies and Analyses

Cash Use Linked to Healthier Food Choices: Study Insights

“Two factors contribute to this intriguing effect,” write authors Manoj Thomas (Cornell University), Kalpesh Kaushik Desai (State University of New York,…

Studies and Analyses

How Envy Shapes Smartphone Choices: iPhones vs. BlackBerries

“Our studies showed that people who had been made envious of someone who owned an iPhone were willing to pay 80 Euros more on average,” write authors Niels van…

Studies and Analyses

Team Science: Boosting Productivity in Translational Medicine

Taking a cue from the world of business-performance experts and baseball talent scouts, Penn Medicine translational medicine researchers are among the first to…

Science Education

Adapting Higher Ed Curricula to Meet Tech and Societal Shifts

The structure of the university in the 21st century is changing rapidly after its evolution into a multiversity in the 20th century. But as universities are…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Highways: Organizing Tissues at the Cellular Level

Single cells build up a tissue by communicating with their environment and with other cells, thereby receiving instructions on whether to divide, change shape…

Health & Medicine

Everyday Substances Linked to Higher Allergy Risk in Bedrooms

“The study shows for the first time that the concentration of PGEs, propylene glycol and glycol ethers, in bedroom air was linked to an increased risk of…

Event News

eSciDoc Days 2010: Innovations at Copenhagen’s Royal Library

On November 16 and 17, 2010, the third eSciDoc Days will be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event is held by FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz…

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