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Puget Sound Sees 99% Drop in Toxic Pollution Levels

Most toxic pollution falling onto Puget Sound's waters has decreased — some by as much as 99 percent — below earlier estimates, according to a region-wide…

Information Technology

Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life

A research team led by Jeremy Smith, who directs ORNL's Center for Molecular Biophysics and holds a Governor's Chair at University of Tennessee, used molecular…

Life & Chemistry

New Immune-Suppressing Cell Discovered by Dana-Farber Researchers

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have identified a new type of cell in mice that dampens the immune system and protects the animal's…

Life & Chemistry

Census of Marine Life celebrates 'decade of discovery'

At the press conference, scientists revealed the results of the census, including the discovery of new species, new patterns of biodiversity and more….

Health & Medicine

Depression Increases Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Risks

Clinical depression puts pregnant women at increased risk of delivering prematurely and of giving birth to below-normal weight infants, according to a report…

Earth Sciences

Europa's hidden ice chemistry

Although these molecules react easily as liquids—they are well-known ingredients of acid rain—Mark Loeffler and Reggie Hudson at NASA's Goddard Space Flight…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Research Marks Anniversary of Gene Discovery

In a study published today in the Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers based in the U.S. and UK…

Earth Sciences

TRMM Satellite Tracks Tropical Moisture Over U.S. East Coast

Rain first broke out across the U.S. Southeast as a slow moving front approached from the northwest. The front then became stationary along the eastern…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Short-Day Onion Study: Impact of Irrigation and Density

Texas AgriLife Research scientists have recently completed a two-year study on the impact of deficit irrigation and plant density on the growth, yield and…

Physics & Astronomy

Cluster Unveils Insights on Solar Wind Turbulence

Surrounding the Sun is a roiling wind of electrons and protons that shows constant turbulence at every size scale: long streaming jets, smaller whirling…

Communications Media

Curing Speech Disorders Through Hindustani Singing Techniques

Hindustani singing, a North Indian traditional style of singing, and classical singing, such as the music of Puccini, Mozart and Wagner, vary greatly in…

Medical Engineering

MRI Insights: Predicting Decline in Mild Cognitive Impairment

“We know that about half of all individuals with early-stage mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer's disease,” said lead researcher Sven Haller,…

Event News

Cross-border Criminal Law – a Symposium with European Commissioner and German Minister for Justice

How Europe‘s judges and state attorneys are to cooperate and how citizens and human rights are to remain intact, isn’t clear. Searching to solve these problems…

Life & Chemistry

New DNA Repair Mechanism Uncovered by Top Researchers

Researchers at Vanderbilt University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a fundamentally new way that DNA-repair…

Environmental Conservation

Climate change forcing a 'move it or lose it' approach to species conservation?

Managed relocation (MR) is literally the physical relocation of endangered or threatened species of plants and animals, by humans, to new, and foreign…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space

“The start of space simulation testing of the MIRI is the last major engineering activity needed to enable its delivery to NASA. It represents the culmination…

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