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Earth Sciences

In a Wink, the TRMM Satellite Sees Gelane's Smaller Eye

TRMM caught Gelane at 09:34 UTC (4:34 a.m. ET). This time the TRMM satellite passed over during the daytime so a visible image from TRMM's VIRS instrument was…

Life & Chemistry

UCR Researcher Uncovers Malaria Parasite Spread Mechanism

Malaria remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Yet, how Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, regulates its infectious cycle has remained an enigma…

Life & Chemistry

Sexual Predator Surge in Energy Boomtowns: Key Insights

The research, published in Conservation Biology, revealed that over a nine year period the number of registered sex offenders in energy 'boomtowns' was two to…

Medical Engineering

Contrast-Enhanced MRI: Differentiating Arthritis Types

Rheumatoid arthritis is a long-term disease that leads to inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. Psoriatic arthritis is associated with psoriasis…

Information Technology

Researchers Use Geographic Information Systems to Quantify Impact of Place on French Wine

That is, the difference that soil, weather and location make in the taste of a vintage. The French refer to it as “terroir,” and the researchers' goal is to…

Studies and Analyses

Asleep on the Job: Tweens Take Part in Sleep Study

“There are so many theories out there … but it’s still one of the great unsolved mysteries of science,” says Jenn Vriend, a PhD student in clinical psychology…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover How Protein Trips Up Germs

Now, Hopkins scientists have shown that a healthy immune response depends on a protein called TRPV2 (pronounced trip-vee-two) which, they discovered, is the…

Life & Chemistry

Neuroscientists Unveil Molecular Pathway Involved with Huntington’s Disease

Huntington’s disease occurs in patients who inherit a mutant form of a protein called Huntingtin (Htt). The protein was first identified in 1993, but how it…

Physics & Astronomy

Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together after Billions of Years

Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-years away and therefore occurred billions of years ago. But these galaxies, members…

Technology Offerings

GaN Gunn Diodes: High-Power Millimeter Wave Innovations

The invention refers to GaN Gunn diodes which were produced on a GaN substrate and are suitable for generating millimetre waves with very high power. Due to…

Technology Offerings

Phase Change ROM – Gallium Oxide for Permanent Data Storage

The Phase Change ROM is based on the invention that in amorphous GaOx crystallization of Ga2O3 causes a jump in the electrical conductivity of more than 7…

Technology Offerings

Nanox SOFC – Nano Oxide Fuel Cell

The Nanox SOFC is a room temperature fuel cell in which nano-structured oxides such as YSZ (yttria stabilized zirconia) or SDC (samaria doped ceria) are used…

Technology Offerings

New Microstructural Metal Refinement Process Unveiled

The Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany, has developed a new process that permits…

Life & Chemistry

Life’s smallest motor, cargo carrier of the cells, moves like a seesaw

The researchers created high-resolution snapshots of a protein motor, called kinesin, as it walked along a microtubule, which are tube-shaped structures that…

Information Technology

NEOS Optimization Server Hits Two Million Users Milestone

NEOS has been used extensively for a variety of applications, including modeling electricity markets, predicting global protein folding and training artificial…

Life & Chemistry

New Role of ATM Protein Uncovered in Tumor Suppression

ATM, a protein that reacts to DNA damage by ordering repairs or the suicide of the defective cell, plays a similar, previously unknown role in response to…

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