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NASA’s DC-8 Conducts Major Airborne Ice Survey in Antarctica

Researchers will work from NASA's DC-8, an airborne laboratory equipped with laser mapping instruments, ice-penetrating radar and gravity instruments. Data…

Life & Chemistry

Liver cells grown from patients' skin cells

Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have successfully produced liver cells from patients' skin cells opening the possibility of…

Earth Sciences

Hope Rises as Tropical Depression Parma Weakens in the Philippines

The Philippines can't seem to get rid of what is now a deadly and annoying Tropical Depression Parma, but forecasters are now providing hope.Parma may have…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Previews Lunar Impact with LCROSS Visualization Team

The event is the highlight of NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. The LCROSS spacecraft flies behind its empty upper stage,…

Health & Medicine

Countries Lag in Lifesaving Diarrhea Treatments for Kids

They examined the implementation of current treatment guidelines and found that few countries are equipped to quickly adapt policies, and many struggle to…

Life & Chemistry

Standardizing Genome Sequences: Defining ‘Draft’ and ‘Finished’

More than a decade later, researchers are finding that with the advent of the latest sequencing technologies the terms “draft” and “finished” are no longer…

Materials Sciences

Flying becomes lighter, cheaper and environmentally friendlier thanks to 'Structural Health Monitoring'

Because of their lightweight construction, fibre-reinforced composites offer particular advantages in the aviation sector. However, their more complex damage…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Shows Henri’s Decline and Disorganization

At 11 a.m. EDT on October 8, Henri's maximum sustained winds were down to 35 mph and waning. The National Hurricane Center used NASA's QuikScat satellite wind…

Earth Sciences

Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Heights Not Seen in 15 Million Years

“The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were sustained at those levels — global temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees…

Health & Medicine

Gluten-Free Diet Boosts Bone Health in Celiac Children

Although CD can be diagnosed at any age, it commonly occurs during early childhood (between 9 and 24 months). Reduced bone mineral density is often found in…

Life & Chemistry

Key Genes Linked to Rising Endometrial Cancer Cases Identified

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have identified two genes believed to play a role in the development of endometrial cancer. These results…

Health & Medicine

Teenage Boys’ Role in Chlamydia Prevention: A New Study

The study was published in the journal Midwifery and was carried out in primary care in the Västra Götaland region of Sweden. “We have seen a major increase in…

Communications Media

Exploring Visual Storytelling in Perfume Advertisements

The thesis portrays pictures in perfume advertisements as actors rather than as passive tools, and dissects the dynamics of imagery. Kjellmer, who has a…

Life & Chemistry

Nanometric Butterfly Wings: Nature’s Color-Changing Marvels

Insects' colours and their iridescence (the ability to change colours depending on the angle) or their ability to appear metallic are determined by tiny…

Earth Sciences

Early Hominids: Walking on Two Legs in Forested Environments

This species was not a savanna species like Darwin proposed,” said University of Illinois anthropology professor Stanley Ambrose, a co-author of two of 11…

Life & Chemistry

Clemson Bioengineer Targets Drugs with Nanoparticles

Pharmaceutical commercials can cause the unsettling feeling that if the disease doesn't kill, the cure will, what with a drug's long list of side effects and…

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