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Acupuncture Eases Joint Pain From Breast Cancer Treatments

A new study, led by researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center,…

Life & Chemistry

Link Between Epstein-Barr Virus and Multiple Sclerosis Risk Revealed

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and a team of collaborators have observed for the first time that…

Studies and Analyses

Boost Happiness: Ditch Small Talk for Deeper Conversations

Psychological scientists Matthias R. Mehl, Shannon E. Holleran, and C. Shelby Clark from the University of Arizona, along with Simine Vazire of Washington…

Physics & Astronomy

Turning up the heat: Finding out how well the Webb telescope's sunshield will perform

For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated by stars and galaxies billions of light years away, it must be kept at…

Physics & Astronomy

Lava Creates River-Like Channel on Mars, NASA Reveals Findings

These results were presented on March 4, 2010 at the 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference by Jacob Bleacher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center,…

Earth Sciences

Texas Trees and Shrubs Boost Water Flow Over Grasslands

The researchers found evidence that, from around 1890 to 1960, overgrazing and resultant soil degradation, not encroachment by woody plants, were the main…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Arizona Secures $6M for Dark Energy Research

UA's Imaging Technology Laboratory, a research group within Steward Observatory, and the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility at the College of Optical…

Business and Finance

Research Counters Risky Image of Popular Financial Investments

In a study to be published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Yong Chen, an assistant professor of finance, investigates how derivatives…

Awards Funding

First Annual UpChucky Awards Announced

Enter the intelligently designed UpChucky Award, which recognizes supreme achievement in the field of persistently rejecting evolution in the most…

Information Technology

Unmanned Helicopter Would Investigate Nuclear Disasters

The helicopter’s main mission would be to assist military investigators in the unthinkable: Enter an American city after a nuclear attack in order to detect…

Environmental Conservation

Canine Health May Parallel Community Health

Students at The University of Findlay are helping Michael Edelbrock, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, study canine cells using a process originally…

Environmental Conservation

Coyotes Love New York, Too

“Coyotes, raccoons and several other wildlife species can be very adaptable. These animals can flourish in urban parks and green spaces, including areas such…

Studies and Analyses

Study Confirms Maurepas Swamp, Marshes Dying for Lack of Fresh Water

Writing in the Journal of Coastal Research, Gary P. Shaffer, Southeastern professor of biological sciences, notes that the Maurepas Swamp complex, the second…

Life & Chemistry

Technique to Probe Hidden Dynamics of Molecular Biology

“Despite the enormous amount of study directed at diabetes, there’s really very little understanding of the collective mechanisms that govern or regulate…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cows Like Leaves Their Tongues Can Wrap Around Easily

Ranchers may be able to tell how long to leave cattle in a pasture, and how large to make the pasture, by the height and leafiness of plants growing there,…

Physics & Astronomy

Explore the Moon’s Deepest Crater: Ancient Secrets Revealed

“This is the biggest, deepest crater on the Moon — an abyss that could engulf the United States from the East Coast through Texas,” said Noah Petro of NASA’s…

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