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Study Reveals Online Ads Can Be Too Intrusive for Users

You could match an ad to a web page’s content – such as putting a car ad on an auto consumer website. Or, you could make it stand out with eye-catching pop-up…

Earth Sciences

Carbonate Minerals Found on Mars: Clues to Ancient Life

Some four billion years ago, our neighbor planet Mars had a warm and wet climate and would thus have provided a much more favorable environment for the…

Environmental Conservation

High tech tools, top-notch science and serendipity play part in finding 23-mile long plume off Florida’s Treasure Coast

The University of Miami’s 96-foot catamaran the RV/F.G. Walton Smith had just completed a two-week National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored cruise sampling…

Event News

International Stem Cell Conference for Researchers Opens in San Francisco, June 16–19

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) prepares for the opening of what is considered the largest international conference specifically for…

Information Technology

GPS, Satellite Communications Will be Challenged as Solar Flare Activity Rises

“We have been observing the sun during the space age for only 50 years and we do not fully understand its behavior, especially the extremes of its behavior. In…

Life & Chemistry

Suspended Animation Protects Against Lethal Hypothermia

Reporting online ahead of the July 1 print issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell, Roth, a member of the Hutchinson Center’s Basic Sciences Division, and…

Life & Chemistry

Helping the Brain's Messengers Get From A to B

Hailed as a Breakthrough in Understanding Membrane Transport, Research May Lead to Better Treatments for Depression and Substance AbuseIn what has been hailed…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Insect Brains Capable of Huge Feats

For the first time, researchers from the University’s Discipline of Physiology have worked out how insects judge the speed of moving objects.It appears that…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Does Pasture Irrigation Increase Groundwater Contamination?

The research team, reporting in the May-June 2010 Journal of Environmental Quality and published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of…

Environmental Conservation

Green Growth: Achieving Sustainability Amid Rising Fossil Fuel Costs

Sterner’s research shows that it is indeed possible to achieve sustainable economic growth, reduced poverty and an improved climate – if we make fossil fuels…

Machine Engineering

Researchers Control Atoms to Enhance Hard Metal Properties

Researchers have long tried to control the manufacturing process for the material to be able to steer in detail the hardness and other key properties to make…

Studies and Analyses

Public Disclosure’s Impact on Public Goods Contributions

Economist Clara Villegas Palacio, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has studied the effects of different extents of public disclosure. A clean environment is…

Health & Medicine

Improved Disk Herniation Surgery Outcomes with Shorter Sick Leave

“The aim of the work described in the thesis was to discover factors that influence the result of surgery and to identify which patients have the greatest…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Discovered Polychaetes: A Dive into Sweden’s Marine Diversity

Polychaetes belong to a group of segmented worms that display enormous diversity. It turns out that there may be significantly more of these worms than…

Life & Chemistry

Astrocytes Influence Brain Information Processing Insights

“Our results contribute to the insight that astrocytes can affect how the brain processes and stores information,” says My Andersson, a researcher from the…

Machine Engineering

Glide Wax Innovation: Insights from Leonid Kuzmin’s Research

A few years ago when Leonid Kuzmin presented his research findings about ski wax, a heated debate broke out between two sides – those advocating glide wax and…

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