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Lead Contamination in Urban Gardens: What You Need to Know

As city dwellers across the country are harvesting fruits and vegetables for family consumption and planning ahead for the next planting season, geochemist…

Studies and Analyses

Electric Cars: Key to Reducing Emissions and Oil Imports

This assessment is among several contained in a new major policy study the Baker Institute Energy Forum will release at a Sept. 27-28 conference titled “Energy…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Rain or shine, Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output

By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to…

Health & Medicine

Sugary Sports Drinks Misunderstood as Healthy, Say Researchers

“Children and parents associate these drinks with a healthy lifestyle despite their increased amount of sugar and lack of nutritional value,” said Nalini…

Life & Chemistry

'Gold' fish thrive, cancers die

Rice University physicist Dmitri Lapotko has demonstrated that plasmonic nanobubbles, generated around gold nanoparticles with a laser pulse, can detect and…

Life & Chemistry

Right or left? Brain stimulation can change the hand you favor

UC Berkeley researchers applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the posterior parietal cortex region of the brain in 33 right-handed volunteers and…

Physics & Astronomy

Pan-STARRS Unveils Its First Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

It is the first “potentially hazardous object” (PHO) to be discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey and has been given the designation “2010 ST3.” “Although this…

Studies and Analyses

Wider Statin Use: A Cost-Effective Preventive Strategy

“If statins are really as safe and effective as they appear to be, broadening the indications for statin therapy would be an effective and cost-effective…

Health & Medicine

Mayo Clinic Uncovers Genetic Link to Breast Drug Side Effects

Mayo Clinic researchers and their international colleagues have discovered genetic variants that lead to severe arthritis for a subset of women when taking…

Materials Sciences

Gallium Manganese Arsenide: Turning Heat Into Computing Power

The material is a semiconductor called gallium manganese arsenide. In the early online edition of Nature Materials, researchers describe the detection of an…

Health & Medicine

Friends, family detect early Alzheimer's signs better than traditional tests

Doctors often evaluate a person who is having memory problems by testing them with a variety of cognitive tasks, such as recalling a list of words or comparing…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Explore Mars with Laser Zentrum Hannover’s Mission

Europe is getting ready for its first unmanned visit to the surface of Mars. “On board” are the scientists of the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH). The group…

Medical Engineering

CT Scans Enhance Heart Disease Prediction Accuracy

“The results of this study show that radiologists can predict cardiovascular disease fairly well using incidental findings of calcifications of the aortic wall…

Studies and Analyses

Children With Food Allergies Often Face Bullying, Study Finds

Of those experiencing teasing or harassment, 86 percent were reported to have experienced repeated episodes. Classmates were the most common perpetrators, but…

Materials Sciences

Visualizing Energy Transport in Conductive Polymers

A team of McGill University researchers have now reported how to visualize and study the process of energy transport along one single conductive polymer…

Earth Sciences

Mathematicians Network to Tackle Climate Change Issues

The Mathematics and Climate Change Network is led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with the UNC Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)…

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