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Life & Chemistry

Penn Study Reveals Slower Species Accumulation Rates

In the study, published in the journal PLoS Biology, Penn researchers developed a novel computational approach to infer the dynamics of species diversification…

Environmental Conservation

Resource Restoration Planning Starts for BP Oil Spill Recovery

This is the second phase of the NRDA process. Much of the initial “preassessment” phase has already occurred — and trustees have already received $45 million…

Studies and Analyses

Essential Workers’ Pandemic Reporting Willingness Examined

Although first responders willingly put themselves in harm's way during disasters, new research indicates that they may not be as willing— if the disaster is a…

Life & Chemistry

Solid Spheres: Advancing Organic Nanostructures in Nanotech

Organic nanostructures are key elements of nanotechnology because these building blocks can be made with tailored chemical properties. Their disadvantage has…

Studies and Analyses

U-M Study Reveals Need for Better Hygiene Awareness

“The references to 'dirty hands' or 'dirty mouths' in everyday language suggest that people think about abstract issues of moral purity in terms of more…

Health & Medicine

Immunotherapy Improves Neuroblastoma Survival Rates in Kids

The percentage rose from 46 percent for children receiving a standard therapy to 66 percent for children receiving immunotherapy plus standard therapy,…

Materials Sciences

Genetically Engineered Silkworms Create Artificial Spider Silk

“This research represents a significant breakthrough in the development of superior silk fibers for both medical and non-medical applications,” said Malcolm J….

Studies and Analyses

CEO's fate in hands of external constituents

A CEO's fate might be in the hands of external constituents, according to a new study from Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. The study found…

Physics & Astronomy

NRL's Wide-field Imager Selected for Solar Probe Plus Mission

The Solar Probe Plus, a small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately four million miles from our star's surface. It…

Medical Engineering

Improved Patient Tolerance in Unsedated Colonoscopy Using Water

Both studies showed that patient tolerance with the water method during unsedated colonoscopy was greater than with air insufflation and enhanced patient…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Growing nanowires horizontally yields new benefit: 'nano-LEDs'

Nanowires typically are “grown” by the controlled deposition of molecules—zinc oxide, for example—from a gas onto a base material, a process called chemical…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST 'Vision Science Facility' aims for lighting revolution

“LEDs can be very energy efficient, and they are a lot smaller and last a lot longer than light bulbs,” says NIST vision scientist Wendy Davis. “They're what…

Studies and Analyses

NIST Launches Educational Kit on Residential Fire Study

The study, Report on Residential Fireground Field Experiments, was published by NIST last April. The study is the first to quantify the effects of crew sizes…

Earth Sciences

Clovis Comet Catastrophe: New Archaeological Insights

Writing in the October issue of Current Anthropology, archaeologists Vance Holliday (University of Arizona) and David Meltzer (Southern Methodist University)…

Studies and Analyses

Schedule Control’s Impact on Work-Family Stress Explored

Researchers measured the extent of schedule control and its impact on work-family processes using data from a national survey of more than 1,200 American…

Studies and Analyses

Lower Recurrence Risk for Women With Triple Negative Breast Cancer

The findings may offer a direction for study of personalized therapy in this select group of triple negative breast cancer patients, as well as highlight the…

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