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Patients Report More Issues Post-Surgery, Study Reveals

Researchers from The Netherlands spoke to 216 women and 185 men with an average age of 54, who had undergone planned surgery, ranging from plastic surgery to…

Environmental Conservation

Commercial road would disrupt world's greatest migration

At issue is the proposed Arusha-Musoma highway, slated for construction in 2012. According to the proposed route, the highway would bisect the northern portion…

Studies and Analyses

Gender Differences in Energy Compensation: New Research Insights

The study, conducted by Viren Ranawana and Professor Jeya Henry of the Functional Food Centre at Oxford Brookes University, is the first of its kind to compare…

Environmental Conservation

Coral off Puerto Rico's coast 'ideal case study' for Gulf oil spill's impact

University of Central Florida biologist John Fauth, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists and non-governmental agencies are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tecnalia Develops Solar-Optimizing Glass for Sustainable Energy

The term “photovoltaic” literally means “light-electricity”. This technology arose in the 1950s and currently has great possibilities of making contributions…

Health & Medicine

Targeted Medicine: How Magnets Enhance Treatment Precision

Associate Professor Maria Kempe, her brother and colleague Dr Henrik Kempe and members of staff at Skåne University Hospital have shown that the principle…

Physics & Astronomy

Origin of Supermassive Black Holes: New Insights Unveiled

Lucio Mayer, Professor for Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich, and his team are convinced that they have discovered the origin of the first…

Physics & Astronomy

Sunlight spawns many binary and 'divorced' binary asteroids

The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is often depicted as a dull zone of dead rocks with an occasional wayward speedster smashing through on its way…

Environmental Conservation

Nanobiotechnology Boosts Algae Growth for Biofuels

Sureshkumar and Wani have discovered a method to make algae, which can be used in the production of biofuels, grow faster by manipulating light particles…

Physics & Astronomy

Half-A-Loaf Method Enhances Magnetic Memory Efficiency

Magnetic random access memory (or MRAM) cells have long been investigated as possible replacements for parts of hard disk drives, flash memory and even…

Physics & Astronomy

Grounded Electrode Plasma Jet: New Insights into Jet Mechanism

The researchers studied the mechanism of the jet, which differs from conventional APPJ applications that form at the active electrode. “The ground electrode…

Materials Sciences

Smallest U-M Logo Showcases Advanced Display Technology

The gratings, sliced into metal-dielectric-metal stacks, act as resonators. They trap and transmit light of a particular color, or wavelength, said Jay Guo, an…

Life & Chemistry

Fear Response: How It Affects Your Actions and Choices

Fear can make you run, it can make you fight, and it can glue you to the spot. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo,…

Life & Chemistry

BPA Exposure Alters Fetal Mouse Ovary Gene Expression

A study posted today (Wednesday, August 25) at the online site of the journal Biology of Reproduction reports that exposure of pregnant female mice to the…

Life & Chemistry

Lipid peroxides — more sophisticated than their reputation

Prior to this study, scientists had already established that accumulation of lipid peroxides* indicate cell stress. Lipid peroxides have further been shown to…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Neurodegenerative Disease in Dogs and Humans

Dr. Natasha Olby, associate professor of neurology, was part of a multi-national team of researchers who located the gene responsible for a variant of neuronal…

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