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Earth Sciences

Deepest Core Drilled from Antarctic Peninsula: May Contain Glacial Stage Ice

The expedition in early winter to the Bruce Plateau, an ice field straddling a narrow ridge on the northernmost tongue of the southernmost continent, yielded a…

Earth Sciences

A Different Kind of Mine Disaster

“Antimony is an emergent contaminant,” said IU Bloomington Ph.D. student Faye Liu, the paper's lead author. “People have not paid enough attention to it.”Used…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes for Cancer Found in Plants, Yeast, and Worms

The University of Texas at Austin scientists exploited the fact that all life on Earth shares common ancestry, and therefore shares sets of genes.They found…

Life & Chemistry

High-Performance Computing Uncovers Missing Genes in Hours

Using an ephemeral supercomputer made up of computers from across the world, the mpiBLAST computational tool used by the researchers took only 12 hours instead…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover 9 New Planets, Challenging Formation Theories

Unlike the planets in our solar system, two of the newly discovered planets are orbiting in the opposite direction to the rotation of their host star. This,…

Health & Medicine

Fear of getting fat seen in healthy women’s brain scans

That assessment changed when Brigham Young University researchers used MRI technology to observe what happened in the brain as these women viewed images of…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Jealousy: Insights on Social Relationships and Perception

The researchers suggest that their results reveal something profound about social relationships and perception: It has long been known that the emotions…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding the Rise of Allergies in Developed Countries

Allergies have become a widespread in developed countries: hay fever, eczema, hives and asthma are all increasingly prevalent. The reason? Excessive…

Physics & Astronomy

Argonne's CARIBU charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency

Argonne's Californium Rare Isotope Breeder Upgrade (CARIBU) project has reached 11.9 percent efficiency with metallic particles of rubidium. The previous metal…

Machine Engineering

Oil change due? Optimal date is to be determined during normal operation

On the other hand, each oil change especially for large equipment is time consuming and expensive. Engineers at Saarland University and the new Center for…

Machine Engineering

New Fail-Safe CPUs Enhance Simatic S7-400 Performance

The Simatic CPU 414F-3 PN/DP for the Simatic S7-400 Controller has all the functions of the standard CPU 414-3 PN/DP and is suitable – when supplied with 2.8MB…

Life & Chemistry

New Super Bacterium Doubles Hydrogen Gas Production from Waste

In order to produce hydrogen gas in a way that is climate neutral, bacteria are added to forestry or household waste, using a method similar to biogas…

Information Technology

New Musical Glove Transforms Computer Interaction

The technology behind this astonishing feat is a novel musical glove that transmits signals to a computer when the fingers of the glove are moved. But the…

Health & Medicine

“Vicious Circle” Offers New Acute Leukemia Treatment Target

The findings suggest a new strategy for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), one that targets this molecular network and lowers the amount of a protein…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Design Technique Speeds Up Discovery Process

Most drugs are designed to act on proteins that somehow malfunction in ways that lead to damage and disease in the body. The active ingredient in these…

Studies and Analyses

Diet Alone Won’t Drive Weight Loss: Understanding the Science

This appears to be due to a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces a person's physical activity in response to a reduction in calories. The research is…

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