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Physics & Astronomy

The Earth’s magnetic field remains a charged mystery

The controversial new paper published in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and the German Physical Society), ‘Secular variation of…

Health & Medicine

Prostate Cancer Test Enhances Disease Course Predictions

According to UCSF study findings, published this week, the test proved accurate in predicting bone metastasis, prostate cancer-specific mortality, and…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Reassess Moose Species Count in Taxonomy Update

The adoption of Carl Linnaeus' two-part, genus-species system of naming, called taxonomy, has been used for centuries on all described organisms on Earth and…

Physics & Astronomy

Caltech Study Reveals Longevity Insights for Life-Bearing Planets

Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Uncovers Structure of HIV Protein Capsid

Previously, scientists had known that the genetic material within HIV is enclosed within a shell called the capsid, which is formed by a honeycomb arrangement…

Environmental Conservation

Making waves: LSU's WAVCIS increases modeling capabilities

LSU's WAVCIS, or Wave-Current-Surge Information System for Coastal Louisiana, has a few new tricks up its sleeve in preparation for the 2009 hurricane season. Drawing from a pool of scientific talent at the university, across the nation and Europe, WAVCIS now offers graphic, easy-to-understand model outputs projecting wave height, current depths and tracks, salinity ratios and water temperature measurements that not only provide state-of-the-art guidance to emergency management officials, but also give federal and state agencies such as the United States Navy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center and Louisiana Department of National Resources new and improved ways to test their own modeling accuracy. …

Power and Electrical Engineering

Flexible Solar Strips Illuminate Campus Bus Shelter

The researchers are also hoping that the prototype will help boost efforts to commercialize the new technology. The bus shelter is located on the west side of…

Health & Medicine

Link Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Periodontitis Uncovered

Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday 12 June 2009: Over half (56%) of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) also have periodontitis (a chronic inflammatory disease of…

Life & Chemistry

Spain’s First Cloned Mice: Breakthrough at Universitat Autònoma

Researchers at the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) are the first to have cloned mice in Spain.Cloe, Cleo and Clona are three female brown-coloured mice and were born respectively on 12 May, 3 June and 10 June. By means of nuclear transfer techniques, scientist collected mature oocytes, removed their chromosomes and substituted them for the nucleus of an adult somatic cell. …

Studies and Analyses

Etanercept Therapy Boosts Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Care

The data are being presented at the Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress (PReS) 2009, a joint congress with the 2009 Congress of the European…

Business and Finance

Spanish Airports: Balancing Security and Economic Efficiency

“The majority of airport operators are more concerned with security parameters than with economic efficiency”, Juan Carlos Martín, a professor in the…

Health & Medicine

Impact of Anxiety and Depression on SLE Patients’ Quality of Life

In the study, 92.8% (52 of 56) of the patients who were diagnosed with SLE had an element of confirmed neuropsychiatric (NP) involvement (including anxiety,…

Life & Chemistry

Zebra Mussels Persist as Quagga Mussels Dominate Ecosystems

Research conducted by Suzanne Peyer, a doctoral candidate in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Zoology, shows that physiological differences…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Break Light Modulation Speed Record – Twice

But, the researchers didn’t stop there. By internally connecting the base and collector of a light-emitting transistor, they created a new form of…

Health & Medicine

Immune System Insights on Breast Cancer Uncovered

Researchers working with Dr Marcus Schmidt in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University Medical Center Mainz have unlocked the key to the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UAB Campers Create Robots to Burst Balloons and More

The camp is the second in a series of four technology camps targeting middle and high school students each June. The robotics campers built simple robots using…

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