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Health & Medicine

Duke Scientists Develop 3D Airway Spheres for Lung Disease Research

From this single “basal” cell, a small, squat stem cell that divides to replenish the lung lining layer, scientists created 3-D hollow spheres that were lined…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Refine Seawater Equation for Enhanced Ocean Research

This summer, one of the world’s leading ocean science bodies, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO’s) and…

Earth Sciences

Wildfires Expected to Rise Due to Climate Change Impact

As the climate warms in the coming decades, atmospheric scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and their colleagues expect…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA and NOAA'S GOES-14 satellite takes first full disk image

“The first GOES-14 visible full disk image shows little activity in the Atlantic Ocean and two tropical waves located in the East Pacific Ocean with a low…

Studies and Analyses

Freshwater Fish Evolution: Largemouth Bass Adaptations Explored

For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Offers Hope for High-Risk Leukemia in Children

Each year, approximately 4,500 children in America are diagnosed with leukemia, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A potentially deadly cancer of…

Studies and Analyses

Wildfires Projected to Surge 50% by 2050 in Key Regions

The study predicts that the worst affected areas will be the forests in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains, where the area of forest destroyed by…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Value: Researchers Explore Novel Uses for Dirt

Researchers have not yet found a way to turn dirt into gold, but they are trying to find something valuable in it nonetheless: starting materials for novel…

Life & Chemistry

MRN Protein Complex: Essential for DNA Repair and Cancer Prevention

As the body creates antibodies to fight invaders, a three-protein DNA repair complex called MRN is crucial for a normal gene-shuffling process to proceed…

Seminars Workshops

PerMIS Measures Intelligent System Performance for Future Innovations

Intelligent machines of the future will turn custom designs into finished products quickly and efficiently, save lives in catastrophes, and minimize…

Interdisciplinary Research

Responsible Robotics Starts with Responsible Humans: New Insights

In the current issue of journal IEEE Intelligent Systems, two engineers propose alternative laws to rewrite our future with robots.The future they foresee is…

Architecture & Construction

Shake, Rattle, No Roll: Guide to Quake-Resistant Buildings

Beams, columns and beam-column connections are specially designed in “structural steel special moment frames” to withstand building sway during the ground…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Stacking the Deck: Advances in Organic Solar Power Technology

Organic photovoltaics, which rely on organic molecules to capture sunlight and convert it into electricity, are a hot research area because in principle they…

Life & Chemistry

‘Microfluidic Palette’ May Paint Pictures of Bioprocesses

The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette.In a…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene’s High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity Unveiled

The current-carrying and heat-transfer measurements were reported by a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The same team had…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Thai Farmers Enhance Rice Genetic Diversity for Future Crops

Rice is one of the most important crops worldwide, as it feeds over half of the world's population. Domesticated rice is an important supply of the world's…

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