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Life & Chemistry

Endangered Frog Rediscovered in San Bernardino Forest

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a population of a nearly extinct frog has been rediscovered in the San Bernardino National Forest's San Jacinto…

Physics & Astronomy

Teeny-Tiny X-Ray Vision: A Breakthrough in Imaging Technology

The tiny technology, presented at this year's meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Anaheim, California, is being developed to image…

Physics & Astronomy

Chicago Team Leverages AI to Diagnose Metastatic Cancer

When doctors are managing care for women with breast cancer, the information available to them profoundly influences the type of care they recommend. Knowing…

Studies and Analyses

Kids and Family Homelessness: New Study Reveals Alarming Rates

A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifth-graders and their families have experienced…

Earth Sciences

Jade sheds light on Guatemala's geologic history

A new analysis of jade found along the Motagua fault that bisects Guatemala is underscoring the fact that this region has a more complex geologic history than…

Earth Sciences

Scripps Study Reveals Earthquake Risks on San Andreas Fault

New research by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers new insight into the…

Health & Medicine

Cognitive Testing, Gender and Brain Lesions May Predict MS Disease Progression Risk

By current definition, people with benign MS are those who remain “fully functional” after 15 or more years from disease onset. However, people with benign MS…

Life & Chemistry

Reprogramming Human Cells Without Gene Insertion Breakthrough

A research team comprised of faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s (WPI) Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center (LSBC) and investigators at CellThera,…

Information Technology

FunSAT: Harnessing Human Intuition for Complex Problem Solving

The online logic puzzle is called FunSAT, and it could help integrated circuit designers select and arrange transistors and their connections on silicon…

Event News

2nd Annual Meeting of NGFN-Plus and NGFN-Transfer in the Program of Medical Genome Research

Abstract submission until: October 1, 2009Registration until: November 6, 2009 Main topics• Genomics of Common Disease• Genomics of Sporadic Cancer• …

Studies and Analyses

Forest Response Project: FACE Experiment on Sweetgum Trees

With the Department of Energy-sponsored free air carbon dioxide enrichment experiment, known as FACE, three plots of sweetgum trees were the control sites and…

Health & Medicine

Honeybee Propolis May Help Athletes Prevent Overheating

Honeybee propolis, or bee glue, has been widely used as a folk medicine. An active ingredient in propolis known as caffeic acid phenethyl ester, or CAPE, has a…

Health & Medicine

Black Tea’s Potential to Combat Diabetes: New Research Insights

Next to water, tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world. Researchers from the Tianjin Key Laboratory in China studied the polysaccharide levels of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Microbe Strain Generates Electricity Faster From Mud

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and…

Environmental Conservation

Bare-Faced Bulbul: Unique Bald Songbird Found in Asia

Dubbed the “Bare-faced Bulbul” because of the lack of feathers on its face and part of its head, it is the only example of a bald songbird in mainland Asia…

Technology Offerings

ELHY-LENK – Electrohydraulic Superposed Steering

Modern vehicle steering systems should not only be

comfortable to operate but also energy-efficient. Therefore,
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