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Moderate Alcohol Intake Linked to Bone Health Benefits

In an epidemiological study of men and post-menopausal women primarily over 60 years of age, regular moderate alcohol intake was associated with greater bone…

Life & Chemistry

Nanostructure Enhances Energy Transport Efficiency

Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an…

Information Technology

Monitor Ethernet Networks with Innovative Software Solution

It diagnoses and visualizes Ethernet networks, such as Industrial Ethernet and Profinet. Network activities are logged continually, and made available to users…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Obesity’s Impact on Women’s Fertility

Obese women have alterations in their ovaries which might be responsible for an egg's inability to make an embryo, according to a new study accepted for…

Environmental Conservation

Tropical lizards can't take the heat of climate warming

However, new research that builds on data collected more than three decades ago demonstrates that lizards living in tropical forests in Central and South…

Life & Chemistry

Salk Scientists Find Obesity Link to Insulin Resistance

Previously found to increase glucose production by the liver during fasting, the culprit—a protein known as CREB—is also activated in fat tissue of obese mice…

Corporate News

Siemens Unveils Imaging Innovations at ECR 2009

Themed “Ask the ultimate Power in Imaging”, Siemens Healthcare will present its latest imaging innovations at the European Congress of Radiology 2009 (ECR…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Immune System Activation for Better Vaccines

To understand how different materials are taken up and what happens within the cells can for example facilitate the development of new vaccines.”The immune…

Information Technology

Swedish Research Enhances Realism in Super Mario Games

At Mälardalen University in Sweden, researchers have now found a solution to a problem that often arises when new computer games are constructed, namely how…

Life & Chemistry

Insecticidal toxin useless without 'friendly' bacteria accomplices

In a study published in the open access journal BMC Biology, researchers show that its effectiveness against a number of susceptible Lepidopteran species…

Studies and Analyses

How Visual Cues Enhance Your Hearing: New Research Insights

New research from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the City College of New York shows that the visual information you absorb when you see can improve…

Health & Medicine

Driving Factors Behind Brain Changes in Macular Degeneration

In macular degeneration, the most common form of adult blindness, patients progressively lose vision in the center of their visual field, thereby depriving the…

Life & Chemistry

'Undesirable' evolution can be reversed in fish

“Undesirable” evolution in fish – which makes their bodies grow smaller and fishery catches dwindle — can actually be reversed in a few decades' time by…

Health & Medicine

Alcohol Consumption Linked to Higher Pancreatic Cancer Risk

“Our findings support multiple nutrition recommendations that men should limit intake to no more than two alcoholic beverages per day and women should limit…

Environmental Conservation

Cleansing toxic waste — with vinegar

The harmful chromium compounds found in the groundwater at sites receiving waste from former textiles factories, smelters, and tanneries have been linked to…

Life & Chemistry

Epstein-Barr Virus Link to Multiple Sclerosis Progression

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that can cause major disability. There currently is no cure. “This study is one of the first to provide…

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