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Health & Medicine

UCF researcher's nanoparticles could someday lead to end of chemotherapy

Perez and his team used a drug called Taxol for their cell culture studies, recently published in the journal Small, because it is one of the most widely used…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star

X-Rays from the giant outburst arrived on Earth on 22 August 2008, and triggered an automatic sensor on the NASA-led, international Swift satellite. Just…

Studies and Analyses

Autistics Excel at Problem-Solving, Study Finds

Autistics are up to 40 percent faster at problem-solving than non-autistics, according to a new Université de Montréal and Harvard University study published…

Studies and Analyses

X-Rays for Early Alzheimer's Disease Detection

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that could…

Life & Chemistry

Plant Microbe Linked to Drug-Resistant Pathogen Discovery

An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Ice Age Insights: University of Leicester Geologists Unveil Findings

They have published their findings and are due to discuss them at a public lecture at the University on Wednesday June 17.Their research suggests that during…

Materials Sciences

Crustacean Shells and Polyester: New Fiber for Nerve Repair

In the clothing industry it's common to mix natural and synthetic fibers. Take cotton and add polyester to make clothing that's soft, breathable and wrinkle…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change Effects on American Living and Working Spaces

Climate change is visible and occurring throughout the U.S., but the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to…

Earth Sciences

New Nut-Cracking Dinosaur Species Found in Gobi Desert

“The parallels in the skull to that in parrots, the descendants of dinosaurs most famous for their nut-cracking habits, is remarkable,” said Paul Sereno, a…

Life & Chemistry

Droplet-Grown Tubules: A New Frontier in Nanotechnology

Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in the early 1990s, nanotubes and nanowires have been the focus of scientific and technological interest. It has since…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Kicks Off 24th Arctic Season With Global Research

119 scientists from seven different nations will research the whole spectrum of current Arctic topics in three journey stages: climate history and current…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Simplifies Needle Discovery in Complex Environments

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering TFIIH Kinase: A Key to Understanding Epigenetics

A team of scientists led by Professor Dirk Eick of Helmholtz Zentrum München has identified the enzyme TFIIH kinase as an important factor in the epigenetic…

Studies and Analyses

'Cannabis alters human DNA' — new study

A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found “convincing evidence” that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially…

Environmental Conservation

Heavy Metals Transfer from Huelva Estuary to Fish Tissues

“We found positive correlations between the levels of some metals in the waters of the Huelva estuary and those in the tissues of gilthead bream (Sparus…

Social Sciences

Dad's overworked and tired while mom's potentially fired

If dad looks exhausted this Father's Day it could be due to his job, suggests new research that found many male employees are now pressured to work up to 40…

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