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Endoscopic Stents Show Long-Term Success for Biliary Strictures

Researchers from Italy have reported results from more than 10 years of follow-up showing that the placement of multiple endoscopic stents for the treatment of…

Life & Chemistry

Queen's University researchers locate impulse control center in brain

A research team led by neuroscience PhD student Scott Hayton has pinpointed the area of the brain that controls impulsive behavior and the mechanisms that…

Earth Sciences

GOES-11 Monitors Rapid Birth of Tropical Storm Georgette

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-11 is stationary in its position in space, watching over the weather in the western U.S. GOES-11…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Infrared Imagery Tracks Tropical Storm Lisa Formation

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured “Lisa” when she was still a low pressure area yesterday,…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Igor Expands: GOES-13 Satellite Monitors Canada

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-13 is stationary in its position in space, watching over the weather in the eastern U.S. GOES-13…

Information Technology

Open Source Apps: Design Across All Devices Seamlessly

With the mobile internet growing exponentially, the call to develop a single universal platform for the development of mobile internet applications is becoming…

Process Engineering

Lasers Cool Molecules: Yale Physicists Break New Ground

Now a team of Yale physicists has used lasers for a completely different purpose, employing them to cool molecules down to temperatures near what’s known as…

Earth Sciences

New Research Reveals Neanderthals’ Advanced Toolmaking Skills

For decades scientists believed Neanderthals developed `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the…

Studies and Analyses

Smoking during pregnancy may harm the child’s motor control and coordination

– Moreover, we discovered that boys’ abilities may be affected to a greater extent than those of girls, says Professor Scott Montgomery at Örebro University.–…

Studies and Analyses

Cells’ Rapid Repair: Key Role of Zyxin Unveiled by Researchers

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have discovered that a protein, zyxin, is necessary for the maintenance and repair of…

Studies and Analyses

Study: Heavy Roommates May Reduce Freshman Weight Gain

That compares to the typical freshman weight gain of 2.5-to-6 pounds—much less than the mythical “Freshman 15.””This finding seems counterintuitive, but there…

Health & Medicine

New Pathway Regulates Immune Balance and Offers Promising Drug Development Target

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified a new pathway that helps control the immune balance through reciprocal regulation of…

Physics & Astronomy

Watching Electrons Move in Real Time

“Our prototype experiment produces a sort of 'molecular movie' of the atoms in action,” says author Michael Woerner of the Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare…

Physics & Astronomy

Progress Toward Terabit-Rate High-Density Recording

Yet the vast storage amount is limited by the ability to write data quickly enough to the device. In the Journal of Applied Physics, researchers at Sun Yat-Sen…

Physics & Astronomy

Certain Doped-Oxide Ceramics Resist Ohm's Law

Several of the slightly doped high-purity barium titanate (BT) ceramics his research group was investigating were not following the venerable Ohm's Law, which…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultrashort Laser Ablation Enables Novel Metal Films

Salvatore Amoruso at University of Naples, Italy and colleagues examined the expansion dynamics of various ultrashort laser ablation plumes and the basic…

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