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Future of Forests: Innovations in Deforestation Solutions

In some cases, it can be difficult for scientists to see the deforestation for the trees.Not so for Gillian Galford, a recent graduate of the Brown-MBL…

Life & Chemistry

New Molecule Boosts Insulin-Producing Cells for Diabetes Treatment

They also found several cocktails of molecules that drive human beta cells to replicate, as well as important differences between mouse and human beta cells…

Health & Medicine

Morphine’s Unique Role in Blocking Tumor Growth

Morphine is currently the gold standard of analgesics used to relieve severe pain and suffering. Angiogenesis, or new blood vessel growth, is critical for…

Business and Finance

Stock Options Improve Executive Performance but Have Minimal Effect on Rank-and-File Workers

It’s become an article of faith in Silicon Valley that those rewards create incentives for employees to work harder and smarter, in turn rewarding the…

Business and Finance

The Impact of Owners in Mergers & Acquisitions

In the U.S. alone, deals announced in the last decade amount to more than $10 trillion. Yet analysis of M&A research concludes that — on average — mergers and…

Technology Offerings

Catheter Introducer – Novel peel-away sheath introducer set (PASIS) with integrated sealing system

The introduction of a device (e.g. a catheter) into a vessel of the human or animal body to accomplish a medical procedure is accompanied with some fundamental…

Life & Chemistry

Once bitten, twice shy – a temperature switch triggers aversive memory

It is common sense that it’s worth learning what things and situations are harmful to us if we want to have a long and healthy life. For example, after getting…

Corporate News

Siemens receives rolling mill order from ATI for the world's most powerful hot-strip mill to …

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) awarded a major contract to Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH to design, engineer and supply a complete integrated…

Studies and Analyses

Elder Care Challenges: Impact on Parent-Child Bonds

Authors of the first international comparative study of its kind, analyzed levels of affection and conflict among more than 2,600 parents and children in six…

Physics & Astronomy

Fermilab Experiments Refine Higgs Boson Mass Range Insights

The Fermilab experiments now exclude a Higgs particle with a mass between 158 and 175 GeV/c2. Searches by previous experiments and constraints due to the…

Earth Sciences

Converging weather patterns caused last winter's huge snows

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging…

Trade Fair News

New Economic Production Tech for Photovoltaics Unveiled at ASPIS

For the first time the Fraunhofer IPA will present recent results of the EU project ASPIS to the professional audience. In the last months the project…

Life & Chemistry

How Monarchs Navigate Home: U of G Research Insights

New research from the University of Guelph reveals that some North American monarchs born in the Midwest and Great Lakes fly directly east over the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhancing Diesel Fuel Quality: U of I’s Sensor Innovations

Alan Hansen, professor of agricultural and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, and his colleagues are working to develop new technologies to…

Studies and Analyses

Negative Stereotypes Impact Learning Outcomes: New Study Insights

While the effect of negative performance stereotypes on test-taking and in other domains is well documented, the study by social psychologist Robert J. Rydell…

Studies and Analyses

Child Custody Risks: Why One-Size Fits All Doesn’t Work

“Some evaluators see conflict as a natural part of relationships. When domestic violence occurs, they reason that it takes two to tango. When a couple's…

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