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Life & Chemistry

New Gene Identified for Memory Formation in Drosophila

A team led by a Scripps Research Institute scientist has for the first time identified a new gene that is required for memory formation in Drosophila, the…

Studies and Analyses

Birthright Citizenship Repeal: Impact on Unauthorized Population

The report's principal author is Jennifer Van Hook, professor of sociology and demographics at Penn State and non-resident fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based…

Environmental Conservation

Satellite Data Shows Seasonal Pollution Trends in India

In addition to environmental impact, aerosol pollution, or tiny particles suspended in the air, can be detrimental to human health by causing a range of…

Life & Chemistry

Aging Reduces Chromosome Cohesion, Impacts Reproduction

Using naturally aging mouse models, researchers showed that this basic fact of reproductive life is most likely caused by weakened chromosome cohesion. Older…

Business and Finance

Businesses Hoarding Cash: Insights from Finance Scholar

Finance professor Heitor Almeida says the fact that businesses are stuffing corporate piggy banks with spare cash for the proverbial “rainy day” is unrelated…

Life & Chemistry

Twins: Key to Advancing Biometrics Research at Notre Dame

The event also has become an important site for field research by Kevin Bowyer and Patrick Flynn of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Computer…

Health & Medicine

New Model Measures Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Burden

An article just published in the journal Osteoporosis International introduces a validated new model that can be used to describe the current and future burden…

Machine Engineering

Enhanced Telecontrol for Smaller Process Visualization Systems

In addition to Simatic PCS 7 TeleControl for process automation it also includes PVSS for hierarchical widely distributed system architectures. The Simatic…

Studies and Analyses

Heavier Cars Hinder Emission Reductions in Sweden

Over the last thirty years cars sold in Sweden have become larger, and what's more they accelerate ever faster. This has entailed that some of the cars'…

Environmental Conservation

It’s Blooming Awful! Rare Corpse Flower Expected to Thrill Binghamton University Greenhouse Goers

Believed to be one of the world's largest flowering plants, the bloom is expected to last only a day. But while the flower is stunning, it’s the smell that…

Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins Neuroscientist’s Goal: A Prosthetic Limb with Feeling

Thirty years later, such a device is more the stuff of fact and less of fiction, as increasingly sophisticated artificial limbs are being developed that allow…

Life & Chemistry

These Cells Are Fishy, But That’s A Good Thing

The study, reported in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was headed by David Traver, an associate professor in UCSD’s…

Life & Chemistry

Quagga Mussel is Eating the Great Lakes "Doughnut"

No one knew about the doughnut in southern Lake Michigan, much less the mollusk, until Michigan Technological University biologist W. Charles Kerfoot and his…

Life & Chemistry

Lung Cancer Researchers Identify Gene Set That Shows Which Patients Benefit from Chemotherapy After Surgery

“The findings give patients and their doctors a clearer map of the appropriate post-operative treatment route to follow. Not all patients benefit from…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Hear Puzzling New Physics from Graphene Quartet's Quantum Harmonies

Published in this week’s issue of Nature,* the new research raises several intriguing questions about the fundamental physics of this exciting material and…

Life & Chemistry

New Lymphoma Treatment Shows Promise in Dogs

The results of the study, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois, appear this month in the journal Cancer Research.The new compound targets a…

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