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iPhone App Will Help Rescue Oiled Gulf Coast Wildlife

With support from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the UMass Amherst researchers hope the MoGO app will draw on the large network of “citizen…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Teach Cultured Brain Cells to Keep Time

Patterns are an essential part of timing. The human brain easily learns patterns, allowing us to recognize familiar patterns of shapes, like faces, and timed…

Health & Medicine

Does Pickle Juice Stop Muscle Cramps?

In previous research, Dr. Miller found that 25 percent of certified athletic trainers surveyed use extremely small amounts of pickle juice to shorten the…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Biochemical Pathway by Which Harmful Molecule May Raise Alzheimer’s Risk

The harmful molecule, called APOE4, is present in about one out of every six people, the researchers said. Those with the gene for APOE4 have up to 10 times…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers' first "movie of the sky": Pan-STARRS survey starts science mission

Scientists of the Max Planck Institutes for Astronomy and for Extraterrestrial Physics are involved in a number of the survey's key projects, including…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Lysosomal Function and Protein Degradation

The research group of Professor Thomas Jentsch (Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, FMP/ Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC,…

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Professor Matyjaszewski Wins 2010 Gutenberg Lecture Award

The 2010 Gutenberg Lecture Award was today bestowed upon the Polish-American scientist Professor Dr Krzysztof Matyjaszewski for his ground-breaking…

Physics & Astronomy

Large Binocular Telescope Breakthrough in Adaptive Optics

Until relatively recently, ground-based telescopes had to live with wavefront distortion caused by the Earth’s atmosphere that significantly blurred the images…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers uncover biochemical pathway by which harmful molecule may raise Alzheimer's risk

The harmful molecule, called APOE4, is present in about one out of every six people, the researchers said. Those with the gene for APOE4 have up to 10 times…

Earth Sciences

System 92L: NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Tropical Development

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the low pressure area on June 14 at 04:29 UTC (12:29 a.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument detects heat…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Sleeping Sickness and Human Cells

Scientists studying the parasite – which is spread by the tsetse fly and infects the blood of people and animals – have shed light on how it is able to survive…

Life & Chemistry

Aspirin’s Surprising Role in Cancer Treatment Uncovered

Without knowing exactly why, scientists have long observed that people who regularly take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin have…

Materials Sciences

Researchers Discover New Properties of World's Thinnest Material

But to Jiaxing Huang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his research group at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

High-Yield Agriculture: A Solution for Global Warming

The yield improvements reduced the need to convert forests to farmland, a process that typically involves burning of trees and other plants, which generates…

Studies and Analyses

Microfinance’s Impact on Economic Growth: Key Insights

The research, published in the Journal of Development Economics, is the first to examine the relationship between microfinance institutions and the larger…

Studies and Analyses

Aircraft-Induced Clouds: How Planes Create Rain and Snow

The key ingredient for developing these holes in the clouds: water droplets at subfreezing temperatures, below about 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15 degrees…

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