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Architecture & Construction

Bridges in Trouble: Diagnosing Their Ills from a Distance

Ahlborn, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, leads a team of two dozen Michigan Technological University researchers working to identify the…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Unravel Brain-Hormone Circuit That Helps Police Diabetes, Female Fertility

“Many people, and even many physicians, think you develop diabetes that is solely secondary to obesity,” said Dr. Joel Elmquist, professor of internal medicine…

Earth Sciences

Of Dollars and Scents: On the Trail of Sandalwood Oil

If you’ve ever been transported by a breath of L’Air du Temps or Chanel °5, then you know something of the sandalwood tree. The oil found in its heartwood…

Environmental Conservation

2010 Rarest of the Rare List Released

The Wildlife Conservation Society released a list of critically endangered species dubbed the “Rarest of the Rare” – a group of animals most in danger of…

Life & Chemistry

Zebra Finch Genome Hints that Smell is Part of Bird Communication

Today, 150 years after Darwin’s famous book, finches can still teach us a lesson about evolution. A large, international group of researchers, among them Prof….

Life & Chemistry

Magnetic Stem Cells Enhance Heart Attack Treatment Efficacy

The study is published today online by Circulation Research, a scientific journal of the American Heart Association. The study also will appear in the…

Life & Chemistry

RUB Researchers Decode Sordaria Genome Using Next-Gen Techniques

Using “next generation” techniques researchers at the Ruhr-Universität together with international colleagues have decoded the genome of the fungus Sordaria…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Factor Links Heart Failure and Aneurysm Disease

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researchers have identified a major indicator of two deadly diseases of the heart and blood vessels: heart…

Studies and Analyses

Transcendental Meditation Study Reduces Depression in Adults

The studies, conducted at Charles Drew University in Los Angeles and University of Hawaii in Kohala included African Americans and Native Hawaiians, 55 years…

Health & Medicine

Telaprevir Enhances Cure Rates for Hepatitis C Patients

Standard treatment for hepatitis C is 48 weeks of a combination of two drugs, peginterferon alfa-2a plus the antiviral agent ribavirin. The treatment cures…

Health & Medicine

New Method Identifies Smokers at High Lung Cancer Risk

Cigarette smoke is the dominant cause of lung cancer in the United States, accounting for an estimated 90 percent of all cases. While only 10-20 percent of…

Studies and Analyses

Vitamin C and E Supplements Ineffective Against Preeclampsia Risks

The supplements notably failed to reduce the risk of preeclampsia, a potentially fatal form of hypertension in pregnancy. The findings are in contrast to…

Physics & Astronomy

Close-Up Images of Epsilon Aurigae Eclipse Unveiled

Using an instrument developed at the University of Michigan, scientists have taken close-up pictures of Epsilon Aurigae during its eclipse, which happens every…

Life & Chemistry

New Stem Cell Supplement: Insights from Medistem Research

Thomas E. Ichim from Medistem Incorporated, USA worked with a team of 13 researchers from industry and academia to further investigate whether this supplement,…

Studies and Analyses

Carbon dioxide may explain 'near death experiences'

Zalika Klemenc-Ketis worked with a team of researchers from the University of Maribor, Slovenia, to examine patients who reported NDEs. She said, “Several…

Materials Sciences

Brown University Unveils New Principle in Material Science

Brown University scientists may have figured out a way. In a paper published in Nature, Huajian Gao and researchers from the University of Alabama and China…

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