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Architecture & Construction

NJIT expert advises on the do and don't of building in hurricane-prone areas

She is a civil/structural engineer who teaches at NJIT's College of Architecture and Design. Her courses include topics related to wind and earthquakes with…

Health & Medicine

Popular Alzheimer's theory may be false trail

Researchers with the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, in collaboration with scientists at the University of Frankfurt, Germany,…

Life & Chemistry

IUPUI Chemists Launch Distributed Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases

Even in times of economic prosperity, the pharmaceutical industry has often been reluctant to get involved in developing treatments for diseases that occur…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Material Enables Lossless Electron Flow in Electronics

Recently-predicted and much-sought, the material allows electrons on its surface to travel with no loss of energy at room temperatures and can be fabricated…

Environmental Conservation

Amazon’s Conservation Policy Thrives in Brazil: Study Insights

The study, to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contends state and federal governments in Brazil have created a sustainable…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough in Early AMD Detection Using CCR3 Receptor

The marker, a receptor known as CCR3, shows strong potential as a means for both the early detection of the disease and for preventive treatment. The findings…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sky-High Potential: Wind Power Innovations in New York

A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery of the cell's water gate may lead to new cancer drugs

The discovery, which will be published in the journal PLoS Biology, raises hopes of developing a drug that inhibits the spread and growth of tumours.All living…

Studies and Analyses

CPAP Treatment Reduces Fatigue in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

A study in the June 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the complaints of fatigue and tiredness in patients with obstructive sleep…

Environmental Conservation

Bonobos Reintroduced to Wild: Duke and Harvard Research Study

On June 14 and 28, for the first time ever, a group of 18 orphan bonobos will be returned to the wild.”We'll be monitoring the social behavior and feeding…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Gene Evolution Uncover Key Traits

Darwin proposed that such traits are passed from a parent to their offspring, with natural selection favouring those that give the greatest advantage for…

Life & Chemistry

GARP Breakthrough: New Treatment for Immune Disorders

Scientists from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany and the Medical School Hannover, Germany have succeeded in treating immune…

Medical Engineering

PET Scans Boost Early Accuracy of Dementia Diagnoses

A new study shows that the use of positron emission tomography (PET) scans may improve the accuracy of dementia diagnoses early in disease onset for more than…

Life & Chemistry

Protein in the envelope enclosing the cell nucleus – a new piece of the puzzle in research on cancer and stem cells?

All living organisms are made up of cells. The cell consists of different “compartments” that have different functions. In one of the compartments, the cell…

Physics & Astronomy

Meteorite Grains Divulge Earth’s Cosmic Roots

Heck and his colleagues examined 22 interstellar grains from the Murchison meteorite for their analysis. Dying sun-like stars flung the Murchison grains into…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Discover Magnetic Superatoms That Mimic Manganese

The newly discovered cluster, consisting of one vanadium and eight cesium atoms, acts like a tiny magnet that can mimic a single manganese atom in magnetic…

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