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Global Initiative Tests New Treatments for Severe H1N1

An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.While front-line health care…

Earth Sciences

Controversial new climate change results

This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected. The results run contrary…

Life & Chemistry

Sexual Selection: Fungal Ties in the Battle of the Sexes

The war between the sexes has been fought on many fronts throughout time—from humans to birds to insects, the animal kingdom is replete with species involved…

Life & Chemistry

Preserving Old Books: New Test Uses Aroma for Document Care

In a report published in the American Chemical Society's Analytical Chemistry, a semi-monthly journal, they describe development of a new test that can measure…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Caltech’s DNA Origami Nanoscale Breadboards for Circuits

A paper about the work appeared November 8 in the early online edition of Nature Nanotechnology.”This project is one of those great 'Where else but at…

Physics & Astronomy

USM researcher uses nanotechnology to invent high quality varistor

Malaysia has the second highest rate of lighting and thunder occurences (about 280 days a year) after Florida at over 300 days a year. The imapct results in…

Life & Chemistry

Key mucosal immune response mechanism identified

The mucosal immune forms the largest part of the entire immune system and protects the body from pathogens and foreign particles by secreting the antibody…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy

In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than…

Physics & Astronomy

APS Council Overwhelmingly Rejects Proposal to Replace Society’s Current Climate Change Statement

The Council’s vote came after it received a report from a committee of eminent scientists who reviewed the existing statement in response to a petition…

Studies and Analyses

Warm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up a Sweat

In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts &…

Life & Chemistry

World's First Voluntary Gorilla Blood Pressure Reading

Created as a senior design project by biomedical engineering undergraduates David Sotto, Nisha Bhatia, Stephanie Drewicz and Scott Seaman, the prototype has…

Health & Medicine

Routine Evaluation of Prostate Size Not As Effective in Cancer Screening

However the study suggests that if a man’s PSA level is rising quickly, a prostate biopsy is reasonable to determine if he has prostate cancer. These findings…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Additive Copper-Zinc Interaction Affects Toxic Response in Soybean

Regulations and guidelines for tolerable concentrations of these potentially plant-toxic elements in soils are based on the assumption that the toxic effects…

Earth Sciences

Transitional Sauropodomorph from Early Jurassic of South Africa Found

With funding from National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration, and with support from Western Illinois' College of Arts and Sciences…

Physics & Astronomy

Atomic Particles Help Solve Planetary Puzzle

Fangzhen Teng, assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Arkansas, and Wei Yang and Hong-Fu Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences report their…

Studies and Analyses

Wireless Phones and Brain Health: New Research Insights

It is still too early to say if any health risks are involved, but medical researcher Fredrik Söderqvist recommends caution in the use of these phones, above…

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