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Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Gas Movement on Distant Gigantic Star

For the first time they could show how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star. This was made possible by combining three 1.8…

Earth Sciences

Record Winter Water Temperatures: Insights from Satellites

Satellites have given oceanographers an insight into a remarkable phenomenon – a significant extension of the Leeuwin Current curling around the southern tip…

Life & Chemistry

Bladder Cells Respond to Stretch, New Insights from Japan

Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Takaaki Sokabe (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS), and Prof. Masayuki Takeda,…

Studies and Analyses

Guided Care Lowers Healthcare Costs for Seniors with Chronic Conditions

The nation's sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health care resources and cost insurers less when they are closely supported by a nurse-physician…

Technology Offerings

Peptide Method Enhances Gene Expression Monitoring in Host Cells

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the expression level of a gene in a host by modulating the activity of a regulatory bio molecule. The…

Studies and Analyses

Botanical Effects on Hot Flashes and Cognition: Study Insights

The studies appear online and will be published in an upcoming issue of Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society.In the first study, the…

Life & Chemistry

Tumor Mutations Predict Chemo Success, MIT Study Reveals

New work by MIT cancer biologists shows that the interplay between two key genes that are often defective in tumors determines how cancer cells respond to…

Earth Sciences

Studying Island Rebirth After Volcanic Eruption in Aleutians

The eruption covered the small Aleutian island with a layer of ash and other volcanic material several meters thick. It also provided a rare research…

Life & Chemistry

Hopkins scientists find cells responsible for bladder cancer's spread

Johns Hopkins scientists have tracked down a powerful set of cells in bladder tumors that seem to be primarily responsible for the cancer's growth and spread…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Wastewater Innovation: Generating Electricity and Clean Water

Clean water for drinking, washing and industrial uses is a scarce resource in some parts of the world. Its availability in the future will be even more…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Uncover Fast Stars in Early Galaxies’ Evolution

The finding offers new insights into how these early galaxies may have evolved into the more familiar ones we see in the nearby universe.The team spent an…

Life & Chemistry

New Cancer Drug Delivery System: Effective & Reversible Solution

University of Illinois researchers report that they have assembled a new cancer drug delivery system that, in cell culture, achieves all of the above. The…

Physics & Astronomy

New Device Enhances Accuracy of Weather Forecasts

The ECIT team has developed a high performance electronic device – known as a dual polarized Frequency Selective Surface filter – that is to be used in future…

Studies and Analyses

Aesop's fable 'the crow and the pitcher' more fact than fiction

In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published…

Life & Chemistry

'Green' energy from algae

In view of the shortage of petrochemical resources and climate change, development of CO2-neutral sustainable fuels is one of the most urgent challenges of our…

Corporate News

Siemens Secures First U.S. Order for Flex-Plant 30 Solution

Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract from Northern California Power Agency (NCPA) for the supply of a Flex-PlantTM 30 power island. The 280-MW, natural…

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