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Environmental Conservation

Plants' internal clock can improve climate-change models

In a study published in the latest issue of the prestigious journal Ecology Letters, an international team has studied this circadian clock from a molecular…

Life & Chemistry

Integrated Optical Trap Enables On-Chip Particle Analysis

The optical trap is the latest innovation from researchers at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who are…

Studies and Analyses

Prostate Cancer Patients Remain Disease-Free After 10 Years

Brachytherapy is the placement of radioactive sources in or just next to a tumor either permanently or temporarily, depending upon the cancer. In the study,…

Studies and Analyses

Overweight Kids Show Increased Loneliness and Anxiety

Now, a new University of Missouri study has found that overweight children, especially girls, show signs of the negative consequences of being overweight as…

Environmental Conservation

Pacific Northwest Forests: Boosting Carbon Storage Solutions

In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances – via fire or timber harvest – forests of Oregon and Northern California could theoretically almost…

Health & Medicine

Natural Compound Halts Diabetic Retinopathy Progression

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to use a natural compound to stop one of the leading causes of blindness in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Ferns Flourish in Trees as Tropical Rainforests Emerge

In fact, they flourished. While modern tropical rain forests were becoming established, ferns climbed aboard, and experienced a flowering of their own species…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Virus-Resistant Grape Vines: A Solution for Crop Resilience

Extremely hot or rainy periods can destroy entire crops, not to mention the wide variety of pests that can appear on the scene. Bugs such as the vine louse or…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Rampant Helper Syndrome in Archaea Organisms

The Archaea are single-celled organisms and a domain unto themselves, quite apart from the so called eukaryotes, being bacteria and higher organisms. Many…

Life & Chemistry

Crabs Dive Deep to Escape Rising Ocean Temperatures

Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to investigate the distribution…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Printable Batteries: A New Era of Convenient Power Solutions

Now where is that piece of paper again with the TAN numbers? In the future you can spare yourself the search for the number. Simply touch your EC card and a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Launches Advanced Oxidation System for TOC Reduction

This proprietary advanced oxidation process, referred to as the VANOX POU system, will consistently reduce TOC to 0.5 parts per billion (ppb) and can treat…

Machine Engineering

Innovative CNC Technology Package for Milling Applications

The technology package combines CNC hardware, intelligent CNC functions and the complete CAD/CAM/CNC process chain for industries with very high requirements…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Study Reveals Key Differences in Stem Cell Types

The data from the study suggest that embryonic stem cells and the reprogrammed cells, known as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, have overlapping but still…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Fermi Telescope reveals a population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars

A new class of pulsars detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is solving the mystery of previously unidentified gamma-ray sources and helping…

Health & Medicine

MIT and CDC Uncover H1N1 Flu Spread Factors

A team from MIT and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found a genetic explanation for why the new H1N1 “swine flu” virus has spread from…

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