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Power and Electrical Engineering

PNNL Awarded $6.8 Million for Marine, River Power Studies

The bulk of the funding – $3.45 million, or $1.15 million per year – allows PNNL to lead a project that will examine the environmental impacts of marine and…

Information Technology

Grant to Improve Monitoring of Computers Should Increase Reliability

Since designing absolute, fault-free software is not possible, systems that accurately monitor the operation of concurrent computer systems and warn users of…

Physics & Astronomy

Tissue Engineers Study Beetles, Grasshoppers

The results could be a deeper understanding of how to manage insects, with the potential to lead to advances in agricultural, commercial and residential pest…

Physics & Astronomy

Next Generation Nano-CT System Will Enhance Nano-scale Research

Today, Wang, known as a pioneer in this field, and his colleagues have been awarded more than $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Design New Graphene-based, Nanomaterial with Magnetic Properties

The team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University; Peking University in Beijing, China; the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai, China; and…

Information Technology

Computational Process Zeroes in on Top Genetic Cancer Suspects

The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no…

Health & Medicine

Exercise Minimizes Weight Regain by Burning Fat Before Carbs

The University of Colorado Denver study also found that exercise prevents the increase in the number of fat cells that occurs during weight regain, challenging…

Earth Sciences

Carbon Cycling: Addressing Inland Water’s Role in Climate Change

Streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle that is unaccounted for in conventional carbon cycling models. The…

Studies and Analyses

'Eatin' (not so) good in the neighborhood'

Living without a car in close proximity to fast food restaurants is associated with excess body mass index and weight gain, according to a University of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Radio-Telescope Insights Transform Gravitational Physics

“Measuring the curvature of space caused by gravity is one of the most sensitive ways to learn how Einstein's theory of General Relativity relates to quantum…

Life & Chemistry

Biotransformed Blueberry Juice: A Natural Fat Fighter

Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds great promise as an anti-obesity and…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Therapies Transforming PTSD Treatment Approaches

New research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is being presented this week at the Military Health Research Forum (MHRF), a scientific conference hosted…

Studies and Analyses

Boosting Density: Reducing Vehicle Travel and CO2 Emissions

Assuming compact development is focused on new and replacement housing — as converting existing housing to higher densities could be prohibitively difficult…

Life & Chemistry

Monkeys Dance to Their Own Beats in New Music Study

A new report by Charles Snowdon, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and musician David Teie of the University of Maryland shows…

Studies and Analyses

New EU energy label critical for emissions' targets

The independent research study, “Consumer survey on the new format of the European Energy Label for televisions” by Stefanie Heinzle and Rolf Wüstenhagen from…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Humanity: Novel Genes Shed Light on Human Uniqueness

The prevailing wisdom in the field of molecular evolution was that new genes could only evolve from duplicated or rearranged versions of preexisting genes. It…

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