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French Retail Marketing Innovations Shine at In-Store 2010

The French Pavilion will offer a unique environment for visitors to discover new products and services, and to find potential business partners. The…

Earth Sciences

Colorado State Scientist Enhances Aerosol Modeling Techniques

The groundbreaking research by Colette Heald, assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, was highlighted this…

Health & Medicine

3D Model Discovery Enhances Drinking Water Safety and Medicine

By creating a three-dimensional model, Queen's University biochemistry professor Zongchao Jia and post-doctoral student Jimin Zheng discovered exactly how the…

Studies and Analyses

Study: Two Glasses of Milk Boost Women’s Muscle Tone

The study appears in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise.”Resistance training is not a typical choice of exercise for women,” says Stu…

Interdisciplinary Research

Walking and Running Robots: New Advances for Dangerous Missions

By achieving an optimal approach with robotic mechanisms, studies are moving closer to robots that could take on dangerous missions in the military, create…

Studies and Analyses

Promising Treatment for Aggressive Lymphoma Identified in Study

The international study, involving 24 medical centers in the United States and Europe, will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology…

Environmental Conservation

UM Researchers Create Model to Locate Sunken Oil Spills

“Sunken oil is difficult to 'see' because sensing techniques show only a small space at a point in time. Moreover, the oil may re-suspend and sink, with…

Studies and Analyses

Shark Attack Insights: Analyzing Florida’s Volusia County Trends

Researchers analyzed statistics from shark attacks that occurred in Florida's Volusia County, dubbed the “Shark Attack Capital of the World,” between 1956 and…

Health & Medicine

Improved Detection of Breast Cancer in Mammography Over Time

“To our knowledge, this is the first study of time trends for performance measures in a large representative sample of women undergoing screening mammography…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Boosts Outcomes for Kids with Heart Defects

A trial on shunts used to direct blood flow to the lungs, led by researchers at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, will lead to better…

Health & Medicine

New Mechanism Discovered for Clearing Blood Vessel Blockages

These findings were described in the May 27 issue of Nature by Jaime Grutzendler, M.D., and colleagues. The study was supported by the National Institute on…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Swift Survey finds 'smoking gun' of black hole activation

Only about one percent of supermassive black holes exhibit this behavior. The new findings confirm that black holes “light up” when galaxies collide, and the…

Information Technology

NASA Greenlights Landsat Instrument Design for Next Steps

“Having received the green light on our design during NASA's Critical Design Review, we are moving out on full implementation of our instrument,” said Cathy…

Life & Chemistry

Genome Comparison Tools Show Serious Quality Control Issues

But the tools used to align genomes from different species have serious quality-control issues, according to a study published online this week in the journal…

Life & Chemistry

McGill Team Advances Gene Silencing for Cancer Therapy

The research, published online on May 26, 2010 by the prestigious journal Nature, has important immediate applications for laboratory research and is another…

Life & Chemistry

UCI Researchers Develop 3D Retina from Stem Cells

UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made…

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