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Life & Chemistry

High-Speed Elephants: Running or Walking? Discover the Truth

Their sheer size makes it impossible for them to bounce up in the air at high speeds. So how are high-speed elephants moving: are they running or walking? At a…

Health & Medicine

Research: Rye Bread Fills You Up More Than Wheat

On the contrary, research at the Lund University Faculty of Engineering shows that bread baked with white rye flour, which is flour made from the inner, white…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring How Aging Shapes Memory and Society’s Legacy

However, not everyone was traumatized by experiences of such cruelty. The way experiences of recent history can mark people and society has been examined in an…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Procedure for Preventing Fungal Infection in Lettuce

The invention concerns a procedure for the prevention and diagnosis of fungal infection of vegetable, especially salad plants. Lettuce rot is a common disease…

Physics & Astronomy

Saturn's aurorae images 'unique to science'

Scientists from the University of Leicester have led an international study to capture space images that are unique to science.Researchers using the NASA/ESA…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Homebuilding Innovations in the Mariana Trench

The Challenger Deep is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It lies in the hadal zone beyond the abyssal zone, and plunges down to a…

Life & Chemistry

Butterfly Wing Shapes Linked to Long-Distance Migration

As part of a National Science Foundation and UGA-funded study, researchers in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Odum School of…

Health & Medicine

New Hepatitis C Screening System Enhances Viral Research

The system, Chen explains, enables researchers to study the effects of molecules that obstruct all aspects of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) life cycle. That's a…

Earth Sciences

Queen's helps produce archaeological 'time machine'

The new calibration curve, which extends back 50,000 years is a major landmark in radiocarbon dating– the method used by archaeologists and geoscientists to…

Health & Medicine

Short-Term Radiation Therapy Effective for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

An intense three-week course of radiation therapy is just as effective as the standard five-week regimen for women with early-stage breast cancer. Dr. Tim…

Life & Chemistry

How the Brain Hears Silence: New Research Insights

A team of University of Oregon researchers have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain's auditory cortex that deals…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Arthropod Family Tree Uncovered

In a scientific and technological tour de force that was nearly a decade in the making, a team of scientists from Duke University, the University of Maryland…

Environmental Conservation

New Underwater Field Near Helgoland Enhances Marine Research

In future, scientists want to acquire marine biology data with a high resolution in terms of time and space there by means of state-of-the-art sensor…

Life & Chemistry

Wheat and Barley Grass Genome Sequenced by Global Consortium

Now, in the 11 February issue of Nature, an international consortium led by the John Innes Centre, the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, the US…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

USDA Scientists Sequence Genome of Biofuel Grass Crop

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have…

Medical Engineering

New Stent Enhances Blood Vessel Function for Dialysis Patients

Kidney dialysis patients often need repeated procedures, such as balloon angioplasty, to open blood vessels that become blocked or narrowed at the point where…

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