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Physics & Astronomy

Duke Physicists Map Dark Matter Using Coffee Cup Insights

They think scientists will be able to use violations of this principle to map unseen clumps of dark matter in the universe. Light rays naturally reflect off a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Farmers Face Roundup Benefits Decline, Expert Warns

Bill Johnson, a Purdue University associate professor of weed science, said farmers who plant Roundup Ready crops and spray Roundup or glyphosate-based…

Environmental Conservation

Greenhouse Gas Cuts: Protect Arctic Ice and Lower Sea Levels

While global temperatures would rise, the most dangerous potential aspects of climate change, including massive losses of Arctic sea ice and permafrost and…

Health & Medicine

Findings show insulin – not genes – linked to obesity

Learning the precise mechanism responsible for fat storage in cells could lead to methods for controlling obesity.”Insights from our study also will be…

Studies and Analyses

Prenatal Meth Exposure Affects Brain Development in Children

“Methamphetamine use is an increasing problem among women of childbearing age, leading to an increasing number of children with prenatal meth exposure,” said…

Health & Medicine

Home Tooth Bleaching: Impact on Enamel Strength Revealed

The researchers noted that teeth typically can restore their previous hardness after losing small amounts of enamel calcification. But this is the first study…

Life & Chemistry

Plant Gene Mapping: A Pathway to Enhanced Biofuel Production

The study, published in the April 2009 issue of Plant Molecular Biology, also lays a foundation for understanding these genes’ evolutionary and structural…

Studies and Analyses

Consumers Overlook Food Recalls, Rutgers Study Reveals

Only about 60 percent of the studied sample reported ever having looked for recalled food in their homes, and only 10 percent said they had ever found a…

Health & Medicine

Heart Screening Not Needed for Symptom-Free Type 2 Diabetes

“Patients with type 2 diabetes with no symptoms who are feeling well can generally be managed effectively with preventive therapies such as lipid-lowering…

Health & Medicine

New IGF Receptor Inhibitor Shows Promise Against Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, and less than 4 percent of the 200,000 patients diagnosed annually live more than five years. The only…

Health & Medicine

New Research Links Low Aerobic Capacity to Fatty Liver Disease

New research in The Journal of Physiology connects low aerobic capacity to another serious condition – non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) – and suggests…

Studies and Analyses

Energy drinks work — in mysterious ways!

Clearly, 'sports' drinks and tablets contain calories. But this alone is not enough to explain the boost, and the benefits are felt even if the drink is spat…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Uses of Gypsum in Modern Construction Techniques

Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in…

Medical Engineering

New Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy Enhances Endometrial Diagnosis

Physicians evaluated the endometrium, a cavity that lines the inside of the uterus, in women who were in the midst of or had gone through menopause and who…

Physics & Astronomy

Next-Gen Nanofilms: Advancing 3D Cell Membrane Proteins

But one important class of proteins — those stuck in the cell membranes — has proven difficult to extract and study in 3-D crystals. Now an international…

Health & Medicine

Scientists discover way to jumpstart bone's healing process

But that's the very phrase orthopaedic physicians and scientists are using in upstate New York to describe their emerging stem cell research that could have a…

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