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Earth Sciences

NASA captures Typhoon Nida's clouds from 2 angles

On Monday, November 30, by 4 a.m. ET, Nida had lost her “Super Typhoon” status as a result of wind shear, and is now a typhoon. Nida's maximum sustained winds…

Studies and Analyses

Low-Income Women Face Health Disparities and Access Barriers

These women also experience inadequate access to health insurance and health care to a far greater degree than their higher-income counterparts, the study…

Life & Chemistry

Naked Mole Rats: Insights on Stroke Survival Uncovered

Two University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report in the Dec. 9 issue of NeuroReport (now on-line) that adult naked mole rat brain tissue can withstand…

Health & Medicine

Inexpensive Drugs Boost Life Expectancy After Heart Attack

Providing free medications to people after heart attack could add years to patients' lives at a relatively low cost for provincial governments, according to a…

Health & Medicine

Sugary Cola Drinks Linked to Higher Gestational Diabetes Risk

Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, is the lead author of the paper, A…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NRL's Ion Tiger Sets 26-Hour Flight Endurance Record

The electric fuel cell propulsion system onboard the Ion Tiger has the low noise and signature of a battery-powered UAV, while taking advantage of hydrogen, a…

Business and Finance

Financial Restructuring Insights in Chapter 11 Reorganizations

But are these firms really getting the “fresh start” they need? In a recent edition of Financial Management, researchers Randall Heron, Erik Lie, and Kimberly…

Materials Sciences

Metallic Nanoparticles Withstand Extreme Heat Up to 850°C

Just as a gecko sheds its tail, metal-alloy particles endure 850 degrees Celsius by ditching weaker components, researchers report in Nature MaterialsA…

Medical Engineering

Montreal Heart Institute’s First Cardiac Arrhythmia Prosthesis Implant

A multidisciplinary team from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI), which is affiliated to the Université de Montréal, performed its first catheter implantation…

Earth Sciences

Kuwait Bay’s Climate Change: Local Effects on Habitats & Power

Differences are due to regional and local effects. Increased temperatures are having profound effects on key habitats and on power generation the Arabian Gulf.Researcher Dr Thamer Al-Rashidi of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, said: “Because the waters of Kuwait Bay are well mixed by the tides, measurements of sea surface temperature can be used to assess temperature trends over time in the bay as a whole.”…

Health & Medicine

HIV Vaccine Acceptability Among High-Risk Adults in LA

The research – which looked at acceptability of potential future HIV vaccinations among high-risk adults in Los Angeles – shows many factors come into play…

Life & Chemistry

Jefferson Researchers Discover New Way to Block HIV-1 Entry

Cellular invasion by HIV-1 requires the concerted action of two proteins on the viral surface: gp120 and gp41. The function of gp41 is to get the viral…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Disease-Causing Bacteria by Top Scientists

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art…

Studies and Analyses

Brain Scan Study: Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings

When asked to inhibit their response to a “cocaine-cues” video, active cocaine abusers were, on average, able to suppress activity in brain regions linked to…

Health & Medicine

Personalized Cell Vaccines for Aggressive Brain Tumors

The new therapy is administered to participating patients combined with the standard, first-line treatment involving surgical extirpation of the tumour…

Environmental Conservation

Global Forest Observatory: Key to Climate Monitoring Success

Existing government agencies and research groups have failed to make full use of the thousands of satellite images of the Earth's surface collected each week…

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