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Caltech Scientists Identify Aggression-Promoting Pheromone in Flies

Have you ever found yourself struggling to get your order taken at a crowded bar or lunch counter, only to walk away in disgust as more aggressive customers…

Health & Medicine

Scripps Team Restores Function in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Cells

In an encouraging new development, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has restored partial function to lung cells collected from patients with…

Earth Sciences

Earth’s Temperature More Sensitive to CO2, New Study Finds

In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Fly Neuron Self-Reprograms After Injury: Key Insights

These results, potentially relevant to research efforts to improve the treatment of patients with traumatic nerve damage or neurodegenerative disease, were…

Life & Chemistry

'Live' imaging reveals breast cancer cells' transition to metastasis

The spread, or metastasis, of individual breast cancer cells from the main tumor into the blood circulation to the lungs and other body tissues and organs is…

Health & Medicine

JAK2 Inhibitor Offers Lasting Relief for Myelofibrosis Patients

A first-in-its class oral medication provides significant and durable relief for patients with a rare, debilitating and lethal bone marrow disorder called…

Technology Offerings

Axial Fractionator: New Machine for Natural Material Purification

This invention, by the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Bornim, Potsdam, features a machine for separating, classifying and purifying natural…

Life & Chemistry

HPV16 E6 Oncoprotein: Silencing the Innate Immune Response

Professor Dr. Frank Rösl and his co-workers at DKFZ have now discovered another mechanism by which the E6 oncoprotein of high-risk HPV16 promotes…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT’s Innovative Natural Gas Plant Offers Zero Emissions

A new type of natural-gas electric power plant proposed by MIT researchers could provide electricity with zero carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, at…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Snowmelt Trends: Insights from CCNY Professor

The 30-year record low in Antarctic snowmelt that occurred during the 2008-09 austral summer was likely due to concurrent strong positive phases for two main…

Life & Chemistry

Grooving Down the Helix: Breakthrough in DNA Research

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has…

Earth Sciences

Rising CO2 Levels in Rural Troposphere: Key Findings Explained

Over recent years, physicists and meteorologists have been trying to find out about carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, and how these have evolved in the troposphere…

Physics & Astronomy

Stellar Family Portrait Showcases Advanced Imaging Technique

The amount of exquisite detail seen in this portrait, which beautifully reveals the life of a large family of stars, is due to the Multi-conjugate Adaptive…

Studies and Analyses

How Emotional Pain Affects Us: Insights from New Research

Scientists have long known that opium-like painkillers, called opioids, relieve not only physical pain, but also some forms of emotional stress. Now, a new…

Medical Engineering

Streamlining Medical Engineering: Integrated CAD/CAM/CNC Solutions

These demands mean that the manufacturing technologies must have perfect control of the entire chain of high-precision machining of the workpiece. Equally as…

Materials Sciences

New, low-emission grades of DuPont™ Delrin® meet leading automotive OEMs' requirements

As a result, the high performance acetal homopolymers, which are categorized by their viscosity, are well within the formaldehyde emission requirements of the…

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