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Arsenic in Playgrounds: Safety Insights from a Leading Scientist

Chris Le, a scientist in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, can put to rest any safety concerns regarding playgrounds made of chromated copper…

Health & Medicine

Estrogen-Lowering Drugs Reduce Surgery for Breast Cancer Patients

The study's chair, Matthew J. Ellis, MD, PhD, the Anheuser-Busch Endowed Chair in Medical Oncology and a breast cancer specialist with the Alvin J. Siteman…

Machine Engineering

New Electronic Invention Regulates Nerve Cells Effectively

The invention, which opens new avenues for controlling chemical signals, is being published in the coming issue of the highly ranked scientific journal PNAS….

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Ras Protein’s Role in Cytoskeleton Dynamics

The protein Ras is known as the switch for cell division when it is activated. Mutations in Ras and its interaction partners can thus lead to the development…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Communication Breakthroughs in Complex Networks

Internet, networks of connections between Hollywood actors, etc, are examples of complex networks, whose properties have been intensively studied in recent…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet

The planet, called WASP-12b, is so close to its sunlike star that it is superheated to nearly 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit and stretched into a football shape by…

Life & Chemistry

$33.9 Million Grant Fuels Innovative Enzyme Function Research

The “glue grant” – so-called because it brings together multidisciplinary groups of investigators – was awarded to provide resources to tackle the “complex…

Environmental Conservation

Stanford Scientists Trace Polluted Groundwater to the Sea

Now, in the first study of its kind, Stanford University researchers have tracked a plume of polluted groundwater from a septic system to one of Northern…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo Clinic Identifies Key Gene in Kidney Cancer Research

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the most common kind of kidney cancer, accounts for just 3 percent of all cancers in the United States, but is the…

Health & Medicine

How Exercise Supports Cancer Patients During Treatment

“Using exercise as an approach to cancer care has the potential to benefit patients both physically and psychologically, as well as mitigate treatment side…

Physics & Astronomy

Bright Galaxies Cluster in Universe’s Busiest Regions

For more than a decade, astronomers have been puzzled by bright galaxies in the distant universe that appear to be forming stars at phenomenal rates. What…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Unlock Molecular Secrets of Collective Behavior

Scientists have long wondered what is happening at the cellular and molecular level to bring about this amazing coordination of so many individual animals,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Aflatoxin-Resistant Corn Seeds Now Available for Farmers

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Robert Brown, working in collaboration with Abebe Menkir at the International Institute of Tropical…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Tropical Storm 02A's High Thunderstorms

At 1500 UTC (11 a.m. EDT), Tropical Storm 2A was packing maximum sustained winds near 45 knots (52 mph). Tropical storm-force winds extend out to 45 miles from…

Science Education

Laptops in College Classrooms: Boosting Learning Effectively

To achieve this, however, the instructor must set the right stage, says University of Michigan professor Perry Samson.Samson is a professor in the Department…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM sees heavy rainfall in Cyclone Laila's India landfall

TRMM not only measures rainfall intensity from space but can also give scientists an idea about the height of a thunderstorm that is generating the rainfall…

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