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Genetic Research Links Milk Consumption to Renal Cell Cancer

“The data in this study provide no concrete evidence of a need to alter milk drinking in any way,” said lead researcher Nicholas Timpson, Ph.D., lecturer in…

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Keming Du Wins Innovation Award for Q-Switched INNOSLAB Lasers

Dr. rer. nat. Keming Du has applied to the open call for proposals with the innovation “Q-switched INNOSLAB lasers for high quality micro-processing”. In the…

Life & Chemistry

Mosquitoes Resist DEET: A New Challenge for Repellents

It is the yellow fever mosquito that has developed a resistance to the mosquito repellent DEET, a substance used in mosquito repellents all over the world. In…

Physics & Astronomy

Arizonans Discover Massive Meteorite Fragment From Fall

NASA officials estimated that the rock, a meteoroid some 3.3 feet across, blew apart with the force equivalent to 20 tons of TNT. Videos of it are widely…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Ranks Countries on Environment Impact

The research uses seven indicators of environmental degradation to form two rankings – a proportional environmental impact index, where impact is measured…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Early Misdiagnosed Stem Canker Poses Risk for Soybean Growers

Though it had the look of some more familiar late season soybean diseases, it reminded Chase of a disease he’s seen increasingly since the late 1990s: stem…

Health & Medicine

Food Insecurity Can Lead to Greater Weight Gain and Complications during Pregnancy

Prior studies have demonstrated that paradoxically, women living in food insecure households report higher rates of overweight and related health…

Life & Chemistry

Bugging Out: NC State Researchers Help Track Wayward Pests Through Mapping

Researchers at North Carolina State University partnered with scientists and analysts from around the globe to determine recommendations to improve pest-risk…

Studies and Analyses

Natural Selection for Moderate Testosterone Surprises Scientists

Scientists from Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Virginia, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and the University of Southern…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

A New Way to Use Herbicides: To Sterilize, Not Kill Weeds

Rangeland ecologist Matt Rinella at the ARS Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory in Miles City, Mont., conducted the study with colleagues at…

Studies and Analyses

Combination of Direct Antivirals May Be Key to Curing Hep C

Using probabilistic and viral dynamic models, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Oakland University and Los Alamos National Laboratory…

Life & Chemistry

Biomaterials Mimicking Biology for Muscle Regeneration

“Our goal is to use these biomaterials in tissue engineering as a type of scaffold for muscle regeneration,” said co-author Dan Dudek, an assistant professor…

Materials Sciences

Cell Phones May Soon Feature Night Vision Technology

A University of Florida engineering researcher has crafted a nickel-sized imaging device that uses organic light-emitting diode technology similar to that…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Virginiamycin: A Cost-Effective Solution for Swine Feed

For decades, swine producers have recognized an increase in growth and performance when virginiamycin is added to their corn-soybean meal feed rations. U of I…

Environmental Conservation

New Strategy to Curb Global Warming Unveiled by Scientists

Major greenhouse gas-emitting countries agreed in the December, 2009, climate talks in Copenhagen that substantial action is required to limit the increase of…

Life & Chemistry

Bees That Nest in Petals: A Unique Discovery in Turkey and Iran

In a rare coincidence, researchers working in both Turkey and Iran discovered on the same day how a rare species of bee builds its underground nests. The…

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