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Behavioral Therapy for Depression: Positive Outcomes Revealed

It can occur at any time of life and it may affect children and adolescents as well as the elderly. However, depression can usually be suitably managed with…

Studies and Analyses

Oil from Spill Could Have Powered 38,000 Cars (And More) for a Year

Corbett, a professor of marine policy in UD's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, works on energy and environmental solutions for transportation. He has…

Environmental Conservation

Fibertect Absorbent Can Clean Gulf Oil Spill’s Crude, Hold Toxic Oil and Mustard Vapors

Seshadri Ramkumar, an associate professor of nonwoven technologies, said the Texas Tech-created nonwoven cotton carbon absorbent wipe can clean up crude oil…

Life & Chemistry

Nuclear Pores Call on Different Assembly Mechanisms at Different Cell Cycle Stages

Now a team of investigators from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has illuminated key differences in the mechanisms behind nuclear pores formed at two…

Life & Chemistry

Stretching Single Molecules Allows Precision Studies of Interacting Electrons

The work, led by professor of physics Dan Ralph, is published in the June 10 online edition of the journal Science. First author is J.J. Parks, a former…

Life & Chemistry

Insight into Structure of HIV Protein Could Aid Drug Design

The research team, led by David Price, Ph.D., UI professor of biochemistry, and Tahir Tahirov, Ph.D., professor of structural biology at the Eppley Institute…

Physics & Astronomy

Zooming in on an Infant Solar System

A team led by University of Arizona astronomer Joshua Eisner has observed in unprecedented detail the processes giving rise to stars and planets in nascent…

Life & Chemistry

Biologists Uncover Genes Linking Sleep and Feeding in Flies

“This work determines part of the neural mechanism that mediates a conflict in a hungry fly's brain in deciding whether to seek food or sleep,” said Scott…

Studies and Analyses

Smoking Linked to Flat Precancerous Polyps: New Study Insights

According to a new study, smoking was found to have a strong association with the presence of flat adenomas (precancerous polyps) in the colon and may explain…

Life & Chemistry

Helping the brain's messengers get from A to B

In what has been hailed as a breakthrough, scientists from Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College have outlined the molecular…

Physics & Astronomy

Comets from Other Solar Systems: New Research Insights

“Anyone who has seen a long tail comet in the night sky may be looking at material from another star,” says Professor Duncan.The researchers used computer…

Materials Sciences

Stretching Molecules Reveals New Insights Into Electricity

Cornell University researchers recently stretched individual molecules and watched electrons flow through them, proving that single-molecule devices can be…

Environmental Conservation

Fern's evolution gives arsenic tolerance that may clean toxic land

The fern Pteris vittata can tolerate 100 to 1,000 times more arsenic than other plants. Jody Banks, a professor of botany and plant pathology, and David Salt,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Model Explains Lack of Organic Compounds on Mars

“There may be no 'safe haven' for these organic molecules on Mars,” conclude Ilya Shkrob, Sergey Chemerisov, and Timothy Marin, from Argonne National…

Life & Chemistry

New Discovery Reveals How to Limit Scar Formation

Their study was published online this week in Nature Cell Biology.When an organism suffers severe injury, specialized cells are “recruited” to the wound site…

Environmental Conservation

New online map shows network of protection for North America's marine ecosystems

The latest map from the North American Environmental Atlas—coordinated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC)—for the first time brings together…

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