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Earth Sciences

Melting rock – Researchers unlocked the secrets of "deep" earthquakes

This is the question being answered by scientists working with Dr. Timm John from the Institute of Mineralogy at the University of Münster, using an innovative…

Studies and Analyses

Education’s Impact on Memory Loss: New Study Insights

In the study, scientists tested the thinking skills of 6,500 people with an average age of 72 from the Chicago area with different levels of education. The…

Health & Medicine

Inflammation’s Role in Colon Cancer: Key Insights Revealed

While chronic inflammation is widely believed to be a predisposing factor for colon cancer, the exact mechanisms linking these conditions have remained…

Environmental Conservation

Cloud Seeding Insights: 40 Years of Hydro Tasmania Research

The team worked with Hydro Tasmania analysing the cloud seeding activity over the hydroelectric catchment area in central Tasmania for more than four decades –…

Health & Medicine

New Test Identifies Swallowing Disorders in Children

A simple test to swallow three ounces of water can help determine whether a child has the swallowing disorder oropharyngeal dysphagia, establishing for the…

Seminars Workshops

Unpacking DNA: The Role of Chromatin in Cell Function

Chromatin is a complex of DNA and proteins that enables chromosomes to be packed into the cell nucleus. Considering that the DNA in a human cell can extend to…

Materials Sciences

Change Your Car Color Instantly with Nanotechnology

Want to show support for your favorite team? What if you could change the color of your car to black and gold (or red and white) in seconds? Scientists have…

Health & Medicine

How Computerized Writing Aids Assist Those with Aphasia

Aphasia affects the ability to understand and use spoken language, and the ability to read and write.Persons with aphasia were trained in the use of…

Life & Chemistry

How a Cell’s Mitotic Motors Direct Key Life Processes

University of Massachusetts Amherst biologists have discovered a secret of how cells organize chromosomes to prepare for dividing. Their unexpected finding is…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover New Class of Essential Non-Coding Genes

A research team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has uncovered a vast new class of previously unrecognized…

Automotive Engineering

DuPont™ Hytrel® thermoplastic elastomer helps resolve “baffling” design challenge

The two new transmissions deliver power to a wide range of vehicles available globally from GM, including the 2008 Chevrolet Malibu, Daewoo Tosca and Buick…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Turtle Fossil Links Asia and America via Arctic Route

In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle.The find…

Life & Chemistry

Single Gene Enables Bacteria to Transfer Between Hosts

Now, with the help of a squid that uses a luminescent bacterium to create a predator-fooling light organ and a fish that uses a different strain of the same…

Life & Chemistry

India’s Quest for Effective Tuberculosis Drugs: Gokhale’s Challenge

The problem is that Gokhale's compound will not work in humans. Not willing to set aside seven years of work, he has been knocking on the doors of…

Environmental Conservation

'Hot spot' for toxic harmful algal blooms discovered off Washington coast

A part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada's British Columbia, is a potential “hot spot” for toxic harmful algal blooms…

Health & Medicine

Household Chemicals Linked to Infertility, New Study Reveals

Published online in Human Reproduction, Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal, the study found that women who had higher levels of perfluorooctanoate…

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