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Medical Engineering

Liquid Hot Enough to Be Quark Soup: New Insights from RHIC

“The primary finding and perhaps most exciting aspect to this prospective study was the high rate of primary tumor control (97.6 percent at 3 years). Primary…

Life & Chemistry

Cloves Identified as Top Natural Antioxidant Spice

Researchers from the Miguel Hernández University have identified cloves (Syzygium aromaticum) as the best antioxidant spice, due to the fact they contain high…

Physics & Astronomy

Jupiter's spot seen glowing

“This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the Solar System,” says Glenn Orton, who led the team of astronomers that made the study. “We once…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Call for Ivory Sale Rejection by Tanzania, Zambia

The countries, part of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), are gathering to decide, among other proposals, whether to grant…

Business and Finance

Study Reveals How Risky Loans Helped Firms Survive Recession

Murillo Campello says a survey of corporate executives found that many small and mid-sized firms survived the economic storm by tapping easy, low-cost lines of…

Environmental Conservation

Red Imported Fire Ants: From Ballast to Southern Habitat

In the 1930s, soil used as ballast to weigh down cargo ships from South America to Mobile, Alabama introduced the red imported fire ant to the southern United…

Life & Chemistry

Caltech and UCSD Use Leeches to Study Reproductive Behavior

A paper describing the work appears in the March 11 online edition of the journal Current Biology.Daniel Wagenaar, Broad Senior Research Fellow in Brain…

Health & Medicine

Regulating Intestinal Inflammation to Prevent Colon Cancer

Every day, our gut comes in contact with bacteria, inducing a basal inflammatory response that is tolerated and highly controlled. However, in some cases the…

Earth Sciences

Predicting Flood Patterns: Penn Researchers Create Mini Delta

In a laboratory, researchers created a miniature river delta that replicates flooding patterns seen in natural rivers, resulting in a mathematical model…

Earth Sciences

Stardust Breakthrough: Promising Candidates Unveiled at Conference

As reported in last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, two most promising candidates for stardust have been identified. They were…

Physics & Astronomy

Metallic Glass Under Pressure: Unlocking New Material Secrets

They combine the advantages and avoid many of the problems of normal metals and glasses, two classes of materials with a very wide range of applications. For…

Health & Medicine

ID Physicians Call for 10 New Antibiotics by 2020

As the deaths and suffering caused by antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections continue to rise around the world, the Infectious Diseases Society of America…

Studies and Analyses

Preventive Behaviors Limited Household Transmission of H1N1 Influenza During Initial Outbreak

People with influenza symptoms are often told to stay home from work or school, which is why scientists need to understand how household transmission works and…

Life & Chemistry

Hebrew University researchers developing ‘breakfast of champions’

An improved method for sustainable pest control using “super-sexed” but sterile male insects to copulate with female ones is being developed by agricultural…

Studies and Analyses

UAB Oncologists Report HPV Vaccine Also Protects Females From Post-Surgical Cancer Recurrence

A new study shows that the Gardasil vaccine reduces the likelihood of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related disease recurring after teen and adult women already…

Studies and Analyses

Girth Increase Linked to Lower Sudden Cardiac Death Risk

Obesity has long been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and heart failure. But, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of…

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