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Behavior Modification Could Ease Concerns About Nanoparticles

Their study will be published online November 12 in ACS’ journal Environmental Science & Technology: Fate of Silica Nanoparticles in Simulated Primary…

Health & Medicine

Interventional Radiology: Life-Saving Pulmonary Embolism Treatment

Catheter-directed therapy or catheter-directed thrombolysis—an interventional radiology treatment that uses targeted image-guided drug delivery with specially…

Life & Chemistry

Pioneering Methods for Efficient Drug Crystal Manufacturing

Ensuring drug crystals are formed correctly is crucial to their efficacy and the efficiency of pharmaceutical manufacturers' operations. Using self-assembled…

Environmental Conservation

NOAA deploys new 'smart buoy' off Annapolis

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of “smart buoys” to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today.The buoy, located at the…

Environmental Conservation

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Alone Won’t Slow Climate Change

According to Stone’s paper, as the international community meets in Copenhagen in December to develop a new framework for responding to climate change,…

Earth Sciences

Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought

Their findings suggest that the early ocean was much more temperate and that, as a result, life likely diversified and spread across the globe much sooner in…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Efficiency: Vibrations in Green Fluorescent Protein

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of…

Studies and Analyses

Why can't chimps speak?

If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect…

Environmental Conservation

California's Ancient Kelp Forest

The kelp forest tripled in size from the peak of glaciation 20,000 years ago to about 7,500 years ago, then shrank by up to 70 percent to present day levels,…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes

Their work opens the way for a new understanding of possible paths to battle diabetes and diabetes-related health problems, which are on the rise all over the…

Studies and Analyses

Skunk's Strategy Not Just Black and White

Hunter wanted to know how predators know a skunk is a skunk. Biologists had assumed that the distinctive black-and-white color scheme was a marker saying,…

Environmental Conservation

Amphibians as Environmental Indicators: New Research Insights

After a review of over 28,000 toxicological tests, researchers from the University of South Dakota, Yale University and Washington State University are…

Earth Sciences

Central Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic

The Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Boneworms: Insights from Monterey Bay’s Deep

They were first discovered in 2002 by researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), who were using a robot submarine to explore Monterey…

Studies and Analyses

New Pupil Response Test Identifies Autism in Children

Recently, University of Missouri researchers have developed a pupil response test that is 92.5 percent accurate in separating children with autism from those…

Studies and Analyses

New UAB Study Sheds Light on Brain’s Response to Distress, Unexpected Events

In the study, UAB researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how activity in the parts of the brain associated with fear, learning…

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