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Key Discovery on Tumor Cell Brain Invasion in T-ALL

Despite great strides in treating childhood leukemia, a form of the disease called T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) poses special challenges because…

Health & Medicine

Statins don't lower risk of pneumonia in elderly

— Taking popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor® (atorvastatin), does not lower the risk of pneumonia. That's the new finding from a study…

Business and Finance

Unpacking the Russian Flat Tax: Myths vs. Facts Revealed

The new tax policy slashed taxes for higher-income Russians who previously paid rates of 20 and 30 percent. Despite the savings to taxpayers, real tax revenues…

Life & Chemistry

Nanocrystals Unveil Cellular Activity for Protein Insights

These ideal light emitting probes represent a significant step in scrutinizing the behaviors of proteins and other components in complex systems such as a…

Earth Sciences

Seismic Surveying in Reno: Exploring Earthquake Faults

The Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno is finishing the first phase of seismic surveying through downtown as part of a $1 million U.S….

Life & Chemistry

Berkeley Lab Enhances Classic Chemical Reaction Breakthrough

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and…

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6th BMBF Forum for Sustainability "Research for Sustainability – One Step Further"

The 6th BMBF Forum for Sustainability also marks the start of the new BMBF framework programme for Research for Sustainability: After five years of successful…

Life & Chemistry

Smallest Acid Droplet Formed by Just Five Molecules

Exactly four water molecules and one hydrogen chloride molecule are necessary to form the smallest droplet of acid. This was the result of work by the groups…

Technology Offerings

AcouMotion – Interactive Auditory Motion Games for mobile phones

AcouMotion is a link betw een motion-sensing and

Interactive Sonification. Based on motion sensors

integrated in mobile phones, motion sequences can
…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Maya’s Ancient Manioc Farming Revealed in CU-Boulder Study

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system — a large manioc field intensively…

Earth Sciences

Global sunscreen won't save corals

“There would be a slight reduction in this problem, because land plants would be expected to be able to grow more vigorously in a high CO2, but cool world,”…

Environmental Conservation

Mercury Levels in Mackenzie River Delta Surpass Expectations

Researcher Jennifer Graydon analyzed water in the Mackenzie River as it flowed north into the Beaufort Sea. She collected samples for three months and…

Life & Chemistry

Another McGill/JGH breakthrough opens door to early Alzheimer's diagnosis

A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer's disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the…

Life & Chemistry

New Polymer Beads Change Color with Magnetic Fields

A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly…

Physics & Astronomy

European Satellites Discover New Magnetar SGR 0501+4516

The object, designated SGR 0501+4516, was the first of its type discovered in a decade and is only the fifth confirmed SGR. “Some sources are extremely active,…

Life & Chemistry

Light-Sensitive Compounds Show Promise in Cancer Therapy

The new compounds, called dye-sensitized ruthenium nitrosyls, are absorbed by cancer cells and respond to specific wavelengths of light by releasing nitric…

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