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UCLA researchers image earliest signs of Alzheimer's, before symptoms appear

Estimates are that some 10 percent of people over the age of 65 will develop Alzheimer's disease, the scourge that robs people of their memories and,…

Health & Medicine

Improved Air Quality Reduces Pediatric Ear Infections

Ear infections are one of the most common illnesses among children, with annual direct and indirect costs of $3 billion to $5 billion in the United States. “We…

Studies and Analyses

Doctors Reduce Hours Amid Rising Malpractice Risks

Economists Eric Helland and Mark Showalter found that doctors cut back their workload by almost two hours each week when the expected liability risk increases…

Health & Medicine

Blood Flow Force: New Insights for Protecting Blood Vessels

In the latest study out of Rochester, published recently in the journal Blood, researchers demonstrated that they are very close to understanding every step in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Simulation Tool Shortens Manufacturing Design Process

Shukla, a 2004 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a 2008 recipient of the Freidrich Wilhelm Bessel Award…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Reveals How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage

Ultraviolet (UV) light damages skin by causing chemical bonds to form in the wrong places along the DNA molecules in our cells. Normally, other, even smaller…

Earth Sciences

Olga's track is a puzzle forecasters are putting together

Satellite data, like that from NASA and JAXA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), combined with ground weather station information, experience and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

NASS Unveils New Geospatial Data Products for Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today announced the release of new satellite images depicting agricultural…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM sees Depression 10P strengthen into Tropical Storm Nisha

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite is managed by both NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA. At 11:35 UTC (6:35 a.m. ET) today,…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Depression 11S Forms in Southern Indian Ocean

The eleventh tropical depression formed today in the Southern Indian Ocean south of Port Louis. It will continue on a southeasterly track and move into open…

Life & Chemistry

Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Shields Monkeys from Chikungunya

Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) developed the vaccine because there is no vaccine or treatment for chikungunya…

Earth Sciences

How White Roofs Can Cool Urban Areas: New Research Insights

The research, the first computer modeling study to simulate the impacts of white roofs on urban areas worldwide, suggests there may be merit to an idea…

Science Education

Max Planck Society Expands Cooperation with India in Computing

The new Max Planck Center will broaden the scale of cooperation with India in the field of computer sciences. “The goal is to create a center of excellence…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Memory Formation Identified Early in Viral Infections

Scientists have identified a molecule that defines which cells are destined to become memory T cells just a few days after a viral infection begins. The…

Health & Medicine

New Breakthrough Promises Hope for Malaria Treatment

Malaria causes more than two million deaths each year, but an expert multinational team battling the global spread of drug-resistant parasites has made a…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Switch Insights: How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Drugs

The findings, by a group led by Andrew M. Lowy, MD, professor of surgery and chief of surgical oncology at the UCSD School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD…

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