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Physics & Astronomy

Plasma-Powered KO Cocktail Fights MRSA in Hospitals

Two prototype devices have been developed: one for efficient disinfection of healthy skin (e.g. hands and feet) in hospitals and public spaces where bacteria…

Life & Chemistry

Seasonal Patterns in Arctic River Bacterial Communities Unveiled

New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use…

Health & Medicine

New Treatment Discovered for Painful Skin Condition

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute, in collaboration with a worldwide group of physicians and scientists, have discovered a remarkable treatment for a…

Life & Chemistry

How Algae Safeguard Against Surplus Light Energy Damage

A team of scientists from Münster and the USA have now been able to show for the first time how green algae protect themselves against such damage. The journal…

Environmental Conservation

Where the Wild Things Were: How Conservation Efforts Are Failing

Sanderson, who published an essay with a similarly dire assertion in 2002, concludes these seven years later: “There have been landmark foreign policy acts in…

Life & Chemistry

Feeding the Clock

Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver—the body’s metabolic clearinghouse—is mostly controlled…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Discover Soy Component May be Key to Fighting Colon Cancer

The study, led by Julie Saba, MD, PhD, senior scientist and director of the Cancer Center at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), will be…

Earth Sciences

Researcher Moves Closer to Understanding Cause of Mass Extinction

During the late Pleistocene, 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, North America lost over 50 percent of its large mammal species. These species include mammoths,…

Environmental Conservation

Significant Decline in Siberian Tigers

WCS says the report will help inform Russian officials of what needs to be done to protect remaining populations of the world’s biggest cat. The report was…

Environmental Conservation

NIH Teams With Lancet to Address Impacts of Climate Change

Strategies to reduce greenhouse gases also benefit human health, according to studies published today in the medical journal The Lancet. The Lancet series…

Life & Chemistry

A RANK insider resolving the enigma of the fever chart

Mammals have evolved a complex system for controlling bone remodelling. Babies require calcium for healthy bones and they obtain it from their mother's milk….

Physics & Astronomy

Black Holes: Incubated in Giant Starlike Cocoons?

The formation process involved two stages, said Mitchell Begelman, a professor and the chair of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department….

Studies and Analyses

'Too fat to be a princess?' UCF study shows young girls worry about body image

Nearly half of the 3- to 6-year-old girls in a study by University of Central Florida psychology professor Stacey Tantleff-Dunn and doctoral student Sharon…

Information Technology

Smart Labels: Enhancing Metal Components with Intelligent Data

The appropriate scanner can read and process the data contained in the label. »Smart labels« can be affixed to goods under production conditions of up to 100…

Business and Finance

KfW Launches First Seven-Year Euro-Benchmark Bond

Having already placed a ten-year, a five-year and a three-year bond in the classical maturities earlier this year, KfW has now launched a seven-year…

Health & Medicine

Boosting New Neurons: Benefits of Polyphenols and Fatty Acids

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) researchers have confirmed that a diet rich in polyphenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, patented as an LMN diet,…

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