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New Links Between Alcohol Abuse, Depression, and Obesity in Young Women

Using data collected when young adults were 24, 27 and 30 years of age, a team of University of Washington researchers found that nearly half the sample of 776…

Environmental Conservation

Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

It may also be true of the frogs of Central America, where the pattern of extinctions emerges clearly only at a certain spatial scale. Everyone knows that…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Muscular Strength in Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Physical therapist-directed exercise counseling combined with fitness center-based exercise training can improve muscular strength and exercise capacity in…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Age-Related Muscle Decline Research

If you think the air outside is polluted, a new research report in the September 2009 issue of the journal Genetics (http://www.genetics.org) might make you to…

Environmental Conservation

Northern Brown Bears Feed on Whitefish in Mackenzie Delta

The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Web-Based Tool Simplifies Agricultural Terrace Design

Writing in the September 2009 issue of Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World, Allen L. Thompson, Associate Professor of Biological and…

Automotive Engineering

New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool

Allowing a liquid to boil in cooling systems dramatically increases how much heat can be removed, compared to simply heating a liquid to below its boiling…

Studies and Analyses

New Research Reveals Parental Lies Shape Children’s Behavior

Parents say that honesty is the best policy, but they regularly lie to their children as a way of influencing their behaviour and emotions, finds new research…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Successful completion of testing of world’s most powerful gas turbine

Siemens Energy has successfully completed trial operation of the the world’s most powerful gas turbine, the SGT5-8000H, in the Irsching 4 power plant right on…

Corporate News

Siemens Wins €40M Contract for Photovoltaic Systems in Spain

Siemens Industry Solutions will be responsible for maintaining, servicing and operating four photovoltaic systems in Spain for Eolia Renovables, one of the…

Life & Chemistry

Tethered Protein Unlocks Secrets of Lactose Repressor Function

The tools of biochemistry have finally caught up with lactose repressor protein. Biologists from Rice University in Houston and the University of Florence in…

Environmental Conservation

UAB Team Innovates to Protect Diamondback Terrapin Turtle

The Diamondback Terrapin has been a national delicacy, a source of state taxes and a casualty of commercial development and victim of new predators, but now…

Studies and Analyses

Hurricane Frequency Rises: Insights from Clemson Researchers

Robert Lund, professor of mathematical sciences at Clemson, along with colleagues Michael Robbins and Colin Gallagher of Clemson and QiQi Lu of Mississippi…

Transportation and Logistics

Scientists develop an 'intelligent car' able to learn from his owner’s driving and warn him in case of accident hazard

Scientists from six European countries, including Spain, have developed a new computer system so called DRIVSCO that allows vehicles to learn from the…

Life & Chemistry

New Discovery Sheds Light on Nanoparticle Fate in Cells

They found that the important proteins that make up the outer layer of these nanoparticles are degraded by an enzyme called cathepsin L. Scientists now have to…

Life & Chemistry

New multi-use device can shed light on oxygen intake

The self-referencing optrode, developed in the lab of Marshall Porterfield, an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering, is non-invasive,…

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