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Earth Sciences

New Discoveries in Pre-Columbian Amazon Settlements

Together with Brazilian colleagues, archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have found the remains of approximately 90 settlements in an area South of…

Studies and Analyses

Conserving the Vasa: Insights for Maritime Heritage Preservation

“I hope that the importance of the conservation of the Vasa will be recognised and provide inspiration and guidance for other attempts to stabilise the…

Communications Media

Mastering Search Terms: Find the Information You Need

’Users usually know what kind of information they are looking for, but they don’t know what question to ask. The problem these days is not for the search…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Into Falbygden’s Stone Age Landscape

A new archaeology thesis from the University of Gothenburg now shows that these “passage graves” were not designed to be visible across wide areas – instead…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria in Your Body May Influence Atherosclerosis Risk

The results are to be published in the distinguished journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS.“The causes of atherosclerosis have recently…

Technology Offerings

PLA–Inhibitor (stoPLA) – New class of NSAIDs for oral and transdermal inflammation treatment

PLA2 enzymes cleave phospholipids at the sn-2-position.

They exist as secreted and cytosolic forms. The cytosolic
…

Technology Offerings

New Method Improves Dental Bridge Dimensioning Accuracy

A method has been developed that facilitates the individual prediction of forces affecting the dental bridges for each patient. In order to do so, the forces…

Technology Offerings

New FRET Method Enhances Hsp90 High-Throughput Screening

The molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) couples ATP hydrolysis

to conformational changes driving a reaction cycle that is required
…

Technology Offerings

Nuclear Export Inhibitors: Targeting Tumors and Viruses

Regulated nucleo-cytoplasmic transport of pathobiologically relevant proteins is critical for tumor development and viral diseases. Transport is mediated by…

Life & Chemistry

JILA unveils improved 'molecular fingerprinting' for trace gas detection

JILA is jointly operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado at Boulder (CU).Described in Optics Express,*…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on HIV’s Gag Protein Uncover Its Key Roles

The HIV protein, known as Gag, plays several critical roles in the assembly of the human immunodeficiency virus in a host cell, but persistent difficulties…

Life & Chemistry

Faster CARS: NIST’s Breakthrough in Cell Diagnostics

The paper,* appearing this week in the Biophysical Journal, demonstrates that with improved hardware and better signal processing, a powerful form of molecular…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST Mini-Sensor Detects Human Heartbeat’s Magnetic Signature

Described in Applied Physics Letters,* the study is the first to be performed under conditions resembling a clinical setting with the NIST mini-sensors, which…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Changes Color of Quantum Dot Photons

Two important resources for quantum information processing are the transmission of data encoded in the quantum state of a photon and its storage in long-lived…

Physics & Astronomy

UT Dallas Research Unveils New Insights Into Martian Atmosphere

The findings, published in a recent issue of the journal Science, reveal how carbon dioxide isotopes have reacted to volcanic activity, water and weathering –…

Studies and Analyses

Waist Circumference: Key Predictor of Kids’ Heart Risk

The researchers, whose results appear in the early online edition of the International Journal of Obesity, found that children with high waist circumference…

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