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Hybrid Human-Machine Interaction System Unveiled by Scientists

For more than 25 years, scientists in the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (CCSBS) in Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of…

Physics & Astronomy

Unleashing X-Ray Power: Insights from New Physics Study

In a paper to be published in an upcoming edition of Physical Review Letters, UNL Physics and Astronomy Professor Anthony Starace and his colleagues give…

Information Technology

New Software Licensing Solutions for Grids and Clouds

The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI presents a new product developed in the project SmartLM, funded by the European…

Studies and Analyses

New PET Scans Effectively Detect Knee Joint Infections

A new study reveals that PET scans accurately detect infections in prosthetic knee joints more than 90 percent of the time, according to researchers at the…

Life & Chemistry

U of Alberta Study Uncovers Protein Role in DNA Repair

Through an international collaboration, University of Alberta researchers Chris Le and Michael Weinfeld have discovered how damaged DNA is recognized and…

Environmental Conservation

Discoveries That Revived the Large Blue Butterfly in the UK

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time…

Life & Chemistry

Hormones and Gender Differences in Neurological Disease Insights

Research published today in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience suggests that a number of estrogens acting through their receptors affect the DAT, which…

Life & Chemistry

Protein’s Role in Mitochondria Movement in Brain Cells

“Understanding the molecular machinery that helps distribute mitochondria to different parts of the cell has only recently begun to be understood,” said…

Architecture & Construction

MIT Engineers Tackle Concrete Creep for Stronger Structures

MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth — concrete — to gradually deform,…

Health & Medicine

Depression may increase risk of Alzheimer's disease in people with memory problems

However, the research also shows that the popular Alzheimer's drug donepezil may delay the progression to Alzheimer's disease for depressed people with mild…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Cellulose Synthesis for Energy-Rich Crops

But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich crops, is not well understood. Now a study led by researchers at the Carnegie…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Frozen Microbe Offers Insights Into Extraterrestrial Life

Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University report finding the novel microbe, which they have called Herminiimonas…

Life & Chemistry

Aussie and Kiwi Researchers Uncover Double MS Genetic Clue

Their findings will be published today in the prestigious journal Nature Genetics.”For decades the cause of MS has remained a mystery. This discovery reveals…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Unveils Approach to Combat Common Blindness Cause

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in collaboration with lead investigators at the University of Kentucky have…

Life & Chemistry

Key Gene eIF4G1 Linked to Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Now, scientists from The Cancer Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center have identified a key gene—eIF4G1—that is overexpressed in the majority of cases of…

Life & Chemistry

Huntington's disease deciphered

The researchers were able to show that the mutated huntingtin gene activates a particular enzyme, called JNK3, which is expressed only in neurons and, further,…

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