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Study confirms: Whatever doesn't kill us can make us stronger

We've all heard the adage that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but until now the preponderance of scientific evidence has offered little support…

Health & Medicine

Globally recognised Rescue “Bible” now includes chapter on avalanches for the first time

“Server overload!” was the message on October 18 on websites all over the world run by first aid and resuscitation organisations. And the reason for this…

Physics & Astronomy

Weighing Stars: Astrophysicist Kipping’s New Method Explained

New work by astrophysicist David Kipping says that in special cases, we can weigh a star directly. If the star has a planet, and that planet has a moon, and…

Life & Chemistry

New Imaging Technique Illuminates Inflammation Insights

Researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine are using an innovative new imaging technique to study how white blood cells (called neutrophils)…

Studies and Analyses

Penn Study Reveals Protein Variations Impact Immune Response

How a T cell decides to make protein X, Y, or Z can have profound effects for fighting foreign invaders or staving off dire autoimmune reactions. Researchers…

Health & Medicine

Genetic Medicine Advances in AMD and Glaucoma Treatments

Genetic medicine is the focus of two presentations at today's Scientific Program of the 2010 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) – Middle East-Africa…

Life & Chemistry

TB Bacteria’s Unique Protein Degradation Uncovered by Scientists

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a key difference in the way human…

Studies and Analyses

Older Women May Skip Bone Density Tests for 10 Years

Now a new study led by Margaret L. Gourlay, MD, MPH of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine finds that women aged 67 years and…

Life & Chemistry

Mice that 'smell' light could help us better understand olfaction

The work, described this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience, has implications for the future study of smell and of complex perception systems that do not…

Life & Chemistry

Yale Researchers Identify Key Genetic Trigger for Depression

“This could be a primary cause, or at least a major contributing factor, to the signaling abnormalities that lead to depression,” said Ronald S. Duman,…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Test Predicts Early Menopause Impacting Women’s Health

The findings, published today in Human Molecular Genetics, could have considerable impact on women in the UK and other western countries, where many start…

Earth Sciences

How Climate Change Is Shifting Pacific’s Natural Cycles

El Nino is a periodic warming in the eastern tropical Pacific that occurs along the coast of South America. Recently, scientists have noticed that El Nino…

Information Technology

Tech Solutions Start With Pattern Recognition

Incorrect. Another captcha appears. You try again. Also incorrect. A third captcha appears. You start rethinking your purchase.University at Buffalo computer…

Physics & Astronomy

‘Quantum Hanky-Panky’ at Perimeter Institute Lecture

On Wednesday, November 3, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, Seth Lloyd, a principal investigator in the…

Life & Chemistry

Improving pore 'vision'

A team led by Naoko Imamoto of the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has uncovered processes governing the formation of functionally important…

Life & Chemistry

Solving single molecule mobility

Nanotechnologists assemble intricate nanodevices, such as computer chips, molecule by molecule using ‘bottom-up’ techniques that mirror nature. One approach…

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