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Life & Chemistry

Gypsy Moths Impact Forests: Nature’s Predators Close In

Cornell University entomologist Ann Hajek told a national conference earlier this month that when the gypsy moth – whose caterpillars have defoliated entire…

Life & Chemistry

Suspended Animation Safeguards Against Lethal Hypothermia

How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no…

Health & Medicine

MSU Research Links Hypertension and Bipolar Disorder

Nearly half of patients hospitalized with bipolar disorder may suffer from hypertension, and the younger a person is diagnosed with the psychiatric condition…

Studies and Analyses

Experienced Professors Boost Student Success in Advanced Learning

Highly credentialed and experienced professors are better at preparing students for long-term academic success than their less-experienced counterparts, but…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Begins 25th Arctic Expedition to Greenland Sea

Tomorrow (10 June 2010) the Polarstern research vessel sets off on its 25th Arctic expedition. From Bremerhaven it will first set course for the Greenland Sea,…

Communications Media

ChemistryViews.org – a New Era for Chemical Publication in Europe

ChemPubSoc Europe is an organization of 16 European chemical societies with approx. 85,000 members, and in partnership with Wiley-VCH publishes some of the…

Life & Chemistry

DZNE, MRC, and CIHR Join Forces for Neurodegenerative Research

All three cooperation partners possess special expertise in various fields ranging from basic to clinical research. The DZNE can contribute special know-how in…

Life & Chemistry

New Autism Genes Discovered in Groundbreaking Research

The results, from the second phase of the collaborative Autism Genome Project, are published in the June 10 issue of the journal Nature.Autism is a complex…

Studies and Analyses

Americans’ Strong Belief in Global Warming Persists

The survey was conducted by Woods Institute Senior Fellow Jon Krosnick, a professor of communication and of political science at Stanford, with funding from…

Life & Chemistry

Crocodile and hippopotamus served as 'brain food' for early human ancestors

A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has found that early hominids living in what is now northern Kenya ate a…

Life & Chemistry

New Large Blue Butterfly Species Discovered in Yunnan

The new species from northwestern Yunnan was discovered by Prof. Min Wang of the South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China and Dr. Josef Settele of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Collagen manufactured from transgenic tobacco plants has great commercial promise for Hebrew University

Natural human type I collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body and is the main protein found in all connective tissue. Commercially produced…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Layered Footballs: Innovation in Fullerene Technology

Since their discovery in the mid 1980s, fullerenes have caused a sensation. The tiny hollow spheres made of 60 carbon atoms, constructed out of pentagons and…

Studies and Analyses

PV Thin Film 2.0: Insights from EuPD Research White Paper

The international thin film branch has undergone rapid development in recent years. From 2008 to 2009, its market share increased from eight to twenty percent….

Earth Sciences

Cooler Pacific Ocean’s Impact on Medieval Europe and North America

In the time before Columbus sailed the ocean blue, a cooler central Pacific Ocean has been connected with drought conditions in Europe and North America that…

Life & Chemistry

Moss Self-Defense Strategies: Insights from Ernst Stahl

This question was already posed by the botanist and founder of Chemical Ecology, Ernst Stahl, at the end of the 19th century in Jena. More than a hundred years…

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