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'Peking Man' older than thought; somehow adapted to cold

A dating method developed by a Purdue University researcher allowed a more accurate determination of the age of the Zhoukoudian, China, site of remains of Homo…

Studies and Analyses

Tobacco Use Trends During Recession: Insights from The Tobacco Atlas

The third edition of The Tobacco Atlas, co-authored by Michael Eriksen, director of Georgia State's Institute of Public Health, lays out a comprehensive…

Physics & Astronomy

Argonne Scientists Uncover Fuel Spray and Shock Wave Interaction

Shock waves are a well tested phenomenon on a large scale, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their…

Trade Fair News

Siemens Unveils Wind Turbine for Low to Medium Wind Speeds

At the European Wind Energy Conference (EWEC) in Marseille, Siemens Energy announces the arrival of the SWT-2.3-101 which is ideally suited to sites with low…

Environmental Conservation

Track Tigers in 3-D: New Software Boosts Conservation Efforts

New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a…

Earth Sciences

New Aerosol Technique Brightens Gray Skies and Reduces Warming

Some types of small aerosols — such as black carbon from motor vehicle exhaust and biomass burning — promote atmospheric warming by absorbing sunlight….

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cell Infusion and Hyperbaric Oxygen Enhance Islet Function

The combination therapy could decrease type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality, said the authors, who published their study results in the latest issue of Cell…

Life & Chemistry

Bone Marrow Stem Cell Injections Show Hope for Spinal Cord Injury

Publishing in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (Vol. 17 No.12), the researchers reported on eight patients with SCI (four acute and four chronic) to…

Studies and Analyses

Calcium-Rich Diet Aids Weight Loss, Study Finds at Laval

Angelo Tremblay and his team at Université Laval's Faculty of Medicine made the discovery in a 15-week weight loss program they conducted on obese women. The…

Environmental Conservation

K-State Biologist Partners for Grassland Sustainability in Africa

“There are a lot of parallels between Konza and other grass-dominated ecosystems around the world,” said K-State's David Hartnett, a university distinguished…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Uses Microorganisms to Date Forensic Death

This new system, of great interest in the field of criminology, establishes correspondences between the parametres of micro-organic growth on cadaverous…

Physics & Astronomy

New Applications of Carbon Nanomaterials in Hydrogen Storage

Experimental and theoretical efforts were combined in a synergistic approach and the results, published this week in the ASAP section of the journal Nano…

Event News

Sustainability Evaluation – a rising star!

“Sustainable Development in Policy Assessment – Methods, Challenges and Policy Impacts” is the title of the international EPOS-conference taking place in…

Life & Chemistry

New Measure Detects Melanoma Malignancy Through Angiogenesis

This process called angiogenesis involves a number of different growth factors and their respective receptors on the vascular wall cells. The departments of…

Life & Chemistry

Enzyme AMPK Found to Boost Brain Growth in Mice

When scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis selectively disabled the enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in mouse embryos,…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Uncovers Functional Areas of Human DNA

A team led by researchers from Boston University and the National Institutes of Health has developed a new method for uncovering functional areas of the human…

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