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Alcohol and Smoking Linked to Headaches in High Schoolers

A novel study by German researchers reported that alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking were associated with increased migraines and tension-type headaches…

Studies and Analyses

Childhood Parasomnias: Sleepwalking and Bedwetting Insights

Results indicate that the rate of persistence after five years was 29 percent for children with bedwetting and 27 percent for children with sleepwalking. The…

Health & Medicine

Smoke-Free Air Laws Shield Kids from Secondhand Smoke Risks

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that children and adolescents living in non-smoking homes in counties with laws promoting…

Studies and Analyses

Oil Spill Reshapes Sweeping New Study Of Oyster Reefs – Virginia To Florida

The multi-institutional project, which kicked off June 1, has become even more vital now following the calamitous Gulf oil spill that began in April. Funded by…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Uncover Identity of Spider Originally Discovered by Darwin

Using notes taken by Darwin himself, the researchers uncovered the identity of the species, Leucauge argyrobapta, and many aspects of the identity of the genus…

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast

The research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, NCAR's sponsor. The results were reviewed by scientists at NCAR and elsewhere, although…

Life & Chemistry

Ethanol Co-products Boost Nutrition in Asian Flatbread

SDSU food scientist Padu Krishnan said it is one example of the ways in which distillers dried grains with solubles, or DDGS, can help improve human nutrition…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Ice at Low Point Compared to Recent Geologic History

That’s the conclusion of an international group of researchers, who have compiled the first comprehensive history of Arctic ice.For decades, scientists have…

Environmental Conservation

“Hidden” Deep-Sea Ecosystems in Gulf, Florida Straits in Jeopardy

According to Drs. Gregor Eberli, Mark Grasmueck, and Ph.D. candidate Thiago Correa of the Marine Geology & Geophysics division of the University of Miami (UM),…

Life & Chemistry

Evolutionary profits and losses

Animal models can yield valuable insights into the biology of human disorders, although they can also introduce additional levels of complexity that may make…

Life & Chemistry

Making the right contacts to get ahead

Cells are crisscrossed by microtubules, protein cables that provide essential infrastructure and serve as ‘highways’ for moving molecular cargoes. Motor…

Life & Chemistry

Better connections through green catalysis

In chemistry, the nitro group (O-N=O) has a formidable reputation. The high reactivity that makes some nitro-bearing molecules potent explosives—think…

Information Technology

Innovative Design Platform for Future Network-on-Chip Systems

• The NaNoC project aims at developing an innovative design platform for future Network-on-Chip (NoC) based multi-core systems. • The project is being carried…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Stem Cell Researcher Uncover Previously Unknown Patterns of DNA Methylation

The team of scientists discovered a relationship between DNA methylation and the positioning of nucleosomes, which compact and regulate access to DNA in the…

Physics & Astronomy

New 'Doubly Magic' Research Reveals Role of Nuclear Shell

The research, published today in the journal Nature, is part of a broad scientific effort to understand nucleosynthesis, or the process by which the higher…

Awards Funding

PrISUm Solar Car Team Prepares for June 19-26 Race from Tulsa to Chicago

Just look at this, said Trevor Dobbs, a junior from Woodbury, Minn., as he picked up a shiny silver piece of the car¡¯s suspension.That suspension upright is…

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