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Earth Sciences

Researchers Create New Weathering Index to Measure Rainfall in Ancient Ecosystems

Understanding climate and rainfall through geologic time is crucial because they relate to plant and animal evolution, ecosystem function and the hydrological…

Environmental Conservation

The Bivalve Effect : New Understanding of Marine Ecology Will Enable Better Management of Resources

Guichard says marine life can communicate over thousands of kilometres, calling into question current fishery management and marine preservation practices. “If…

Studies and Analyses

Warmer January Temperatures May Favor Expansion of Cryptococcus gattii in Northwest North America

Researchers in British Columbia, Canada, have used a technique known as ecological niche modeling to identify likely areas where a potentially lethal fungus…

Environmental Conservation

New Study Sheds Light on Corals’ Susceptibility to Temperature Change

The team demonstrated that natural selection acting on the species of algae living within corals may determine which partnerships will survive when confronted…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Heating Head Design for Stirling Motors

The fins of the heating head of a stirling-engine will be strongly contaminated by the combustion with biomass with dust and smoke particles so that the heat…

Technology Offerings

New Lidocaine/Prilocaine Combo for Solar Urticaria Relief

We offer a lidocaine/prilocaine combination for the treatment or prevention of solar urticaria. Up to now the lidocaine/prilocaine combination is used for…

Physics & Astronomy

Purple Bacteria: Nature’s Key Player in Ecosystem Health

Purple bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth. They are single celled microscopic organisms that play a vital role in sustaining the tree of life….

Medical Engineering

Salad Spinner Innovation: Saving Lives This Summer

A simple salad spinner will save lives this summer, if everything goes as planned by two Rice University undergraduates. The spinner has been turned, so to…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing UAV Performance with Holographic Adaptive Optics

Dr. Geoff Andersen, senior researcher at the Laser and Optics Research Center at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, is leading a team of…

Health & Medicine

Ben-Gurion U Researchers Isolate Microalgal Strain to Lower Cholesterol

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have isolated a microalgal strain which produces large amounts of a polyunsaturated fatty acid that could…

Life & Chemistry

Low-Maintenance Strawberry: Ideal Crop for Space Farming

Cary Mitchell, professor of horticulture, and Gioia Massa, a horticulture research scientist, tested several cultivars of strawberries and found one variety,…

Health & Medicine

Purple Periwinkles: New Hope Against Inflammatory Diseases

A widely and safely used plant extract acts as a novel anti-inflammatory agent that may one day be used for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary…

Life & Chemistry

UCSF transgenic mouse mimics Parkinson’s earliest symptoms

The mouse model, which expresses the same mutant proteins as human Parkinson’s patients, also displays early signs of constipation and other gastrointestinal…

Health & Medicine

Insect-Borne Disease Can Affect Newborns, NC State Study Finds

Dr. Ed Breitschwerdt, professor of internal medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences, is among the world’s leading experts on Bartonella, a bacteria…

Studies and Analyses

Global Decline in Common Cancers: Alberta Skin Cancer Study

In the largest Canadian study of non-melanoma skin cancer, Andrei Metelitsa, Gordon Jung and their research group have found skin cancer rates in Alberta are…

Environmental Conservation

CO2 Effects On Plants Accelerate Global Warming, Study Finds

According to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in some regions more than a quarter of the warming from increased carbon…

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