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Earth Sciences

Texas earthquake study cites 'plausible cause'

A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at…

Power and Electrical Engineering

World Crude Oil Production May Peak Sooner Than Expected

Ibrahim Nashawi and colleagues point out that rapid growth in global oil consumption has sparked a growing interest in predicting “peak oil” — the point where…

Materials Sciences

Breakthrough in Graphene Production: Key to Future Innovations

Called graphene, the material consists of a layer of graphite 50,000 times thinner than a human hair with unique electronic properties. Their study appears in…

Life & Chemistry

Nitric Oxide Wraps Enhance Donor Organs and Therapeutic Socks

Kenneth Balkus and Harvey Liu note in the new study that nitric oxide (NO) helps increase blood flow and regulates a range of other body functions. Scientists…

Life & Chemistry

Fifty years of the 'light fantastic:' Laser advances spark scientific progress

As the golden anniversary of the announcement of the first laser approaches on July 7th, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine, takes a…

Health & Medicine

Lower Platelet Transfusions for Cancer and Transplant Patients

Reducing platelet transfusions, and lowering the threshold on when to administer transfusions could help address frequent shortages in platelet supplies, said…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding First Impressions: The Role of Confidence

Yet, many come away from these situations with at best a vague notion of how that first impression was perceived or at worst no clue at all.Now, psychologists…

Health & Medicine

Antibiotic Shows Promise in Reducing Movement Disorder Symptoms

Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Heart Treatment: Insights from Vanderbilt Research

The team, which included researchers from Vanderbilt University, showed in theory that it might be possible to use drugs that maintain the positive effects on…

Environmental Conservation

India's shrinking animal ark needs more parks, corridors

A study on the past extinction of large mammals in India by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Duke University, and other groups has found that country's…

Physics & Astronomy

Mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' tracked deeper into universe

“This is not something we set out to find, but we cannot make it go away,” Kashlinsky said. “Now we see that it persists to much greater distances — as far as…

Earth Sciences

Prehistoric Insights Shape Modern Climate Planning Strategies

Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec,…

Earth Sciences

90Q: A curious short-lived 'tropical' cyclone in the southern Atlantic

On Wednesday, March 10 at 1400 UTC (9:00 a.m. ET) “System 90Q” was located near 29.8 degrees South latitude and 48.2 degrees West longitude, about 180 miles…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Hubert Makes Landfall in Madagascar

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured Tropical Storm Hubert's cold thunderstorm cloud tops on March 10 at 5:11…

Information Technology

Conquering Chaos in Modern Multiprocessor Computers

Unfortunately, that is far from the case with many of today's machines. Beneath their smooth exteriors, modern computers behave in wildly unpredictable ways,…

Health & Medicine

Gastric Bypass Surgery Linked to Higher Kidney Stone Risk

A new study, published in the March issue of The Journal of Urology, found that some of these urinary changes place weight-loss surgery patients at higher risk…

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