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Master Your Circadian Clock: Stop Hitting Snooze Today

Circadian clocks regulate the daily fluctuations of many physiological and behavioural aspects in life, and are synchronised with our surrounding environment…

Information Technology

Unlocking Wireless Innovation at WARP Speed: A New Era

Nothing kills innovation like having to reinvent the wheel. Imagine how dull your diet would be if you had to build a new stove and hammer out a few cooking…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Mutations Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer Risk

Men who develop prostate cancer face an increased risk of having an aggressive tumor if they carry a so-called breast cancer gene mutation, scientists from the…

Health & Medicine

Worm Study Reveals Insights on Low-Oxygen Damage Prevention

They believe the finding could have implications for conditions such as stroke, heart attack and cancer. Sensitivity to low oxygen helps determine how damaging…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford Scientists Discover Key Protein in Cell Replication

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have now identified a protein that does much the same for the telomerase enzyme — ferrying the…

Life & Chemistry

Tadpole Skin Color Research Advances Cancer Treatment

The scientists have identified a compound which, when introduced into Xenopus Laevis tadpoles, blocks the movement of the pigment cells that give the tadpoles…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting European Fish Farming: New Research Initiative

Europe is the part of the world that is most dependent on fish imports. This situation is due in part to the drastic cuts in local sea fish quotas and the…

Technology Offerings

New Polymerization Catalyst Reduces Costs for Chemists

Chemist at the University of Göttingen developed a new polymerization catalyst.The new catalyst drastically reduces the amount of expensive cocatalyst…

Technology Offerings

New Enzyme Converts CO2: Insights from a Living Fossil

Scientists from the University of Göttingen found new members of carbonic anhydrase from a living fossil, a coralline sponge, major contributors to reef…

Life & Chemistry

How Serotonin Turns Locusts Into Swarming Pests

A collaboration between a team of scientists in Cambridge and Oxford, UK and Sydney, Australia has identified an increase in the chemical serotonin in specific…

Earth Sciences

Seismic Slip and Tremor: Insights for Subduction Zones

The slip events coincide with regular occurrences of what scientists call nonvolcanic tremor, which showed up clearly on seismometers but for which the origins…

Physics & Astronomy

Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media

Now a team of physicists at the University of California, Davis, has developed a technique to capture the magnetic “fingerprints” of certain nanostructures –…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Mapping Technique for Underground Oil Reserves Unveiled

Picture this: an accurate map of a large underground oil reservoir that can guide engineers' efforts to coax the oil from the vast rocky subsurface into wells…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Plums Outshine Blueberries With New Nutrient Discoveries

Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists at Texas AgriLife Research.Plainly,…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Unveils Sleep-Wake State Regulation Insights

A new study from the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) at McGill University demonstrates interestingly, that sleep-wake states are regulated by two…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Function Uncovered in Cellular Respiration

In the study, published online Jan. 8 in Science Express, researchers reported that Stat3, a protein previously known to control the activity of genes by…

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