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Process Engineering

Innovative Terahertz Laser Rays: Breakthrough by Harvard & Leeds

A collaborative team of applied scientists from Harvard University and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that…

Life & Chemistry

Nerve Connections Regenerated After Spinal Cord Injury

Researchers for the first time have induced robust regeneration of nerve connections that control voluntary movement after spinal cord injury, showing the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights Into Meningitis Susceptibility Uncovered

The research, led by Imperial College London and the Genome Institute of Singapore, is the largest ever genetic study of meningitis and septicaemia caused by…

Health & Medicine

New Anti-Viral Drug Boosts Hepatitis C Treatment Effectiveness

The research team, led by Paul Kwo, M.D., of Indiana University School of Medicine, reported that adding the drug nearly doubled the treatment's effectiveness…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farmers Earn Carbon Credits With Greenhouse Gas Calculator

Greenhouse gas markets, where invisible gases are traded, must seem like black boxes to most people. Farmers can make money on these markets, such as the…

Life & Chemistry

Electrodes Uncover Tumors for Accurate Cancer Treatment

For proper cancer treatment, it is critically important to know the extent of the disease. Any operation should completely remove all affected tissue. In order…

Physics & Astronomy

Davisite and Grossmanite: Born with the Solar System

These minerals were two of the first solids to form when an interstellar gas cloud collapsed to form the sun. Found in the Allende meteorite, they now carry…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Look at Genes That Affect Vaccine Response

The result could be new knowledge about how to make cattle herds healthier.Assistant professor Michael Gonda in SDSU’s Department of Animal & Range Sciences is…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Apathetic Aphids with Attitude – Ignoring Science and Infuriating Farmers – Become Easier Prey for Ladybugs

The study, “Alarm pheromone habituation in Myzus persicae has fitness consequences and causes extensive gene expression changes,” was authored by Georg Jander,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Protein Discover Protein that Shuttles RNA into Mitochrondria

The import of nucleus-encoded small RNAs into mitochondria is essential for the replication, transcription and translation of the mitochondrial genome, but the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

First Wild Canola Plants With Modified Genes Found in United States

Globally, canola can interbreed with 40 different weed species, and 25 percent of those weeds can be found in the United States. These findings raise questions…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Forest Fires Help Power the Nitrogen Cycle

Led by Patrick Ball, the research team found that a type of bacteria that transforms ammonia into nitrates was found in greater abundance in recently burned…

Environmental Conservation

Planted and Unplanted Man-Made Wetlands are Similar at Year 15, And Function as Effective Carbon Sinks

Researchers at Ohio State have been comparing the behavior of two experimental marshes on the campus, one that was planted in 1994 with wetland vegetation and…

Environmental Conservation

Coastal Creatures May Have Reduced Ability to Fight Off Infections in Acidified Oceans

The ocean is filled with a soup of bacteria and viruses. The animals living in these environments are constantly under assault by pathogens and need to be able…

Life & Chemistry

Death dance reveals secrets of apoptosis in dissociated human ES cells

By unlocking the potential of cell therapy techniques, the discovery promises new hope to sufferers of debilitating degenerative diseases.Cell dissociation, a…

Physics & Astronomy

Pushing the boundaries of the isotope frontier

Discovery of 45 rare neutron-rich isotopes provides clues to the stellar formation of heavy elementsMany of Earth’s resources, from copper to more precious…

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