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Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to Early Brain Tumor Onset in New Study

The study involved 254 people with brain tumors and 238 people with no cancers. All those with tumors had glioblastoma multiforme, the most common type of…

Awards Funding

Cancer researcher Joan Massagué wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine

Massagué’s research has elucidated fundamental processes that control cell division and identified genes playing a key role in tumor generation and metastasis….

Life & Chemistry

Newborns Discover Music’s Beat: Insights on Beat Induction

This phenomenon – termed ‘beat induction’ – is likely to have contributed to music’s origin. It enables such actions as clapping, making music together and…

Awards Funding

Durham University Secures £16.7M Grant for Cosmic Research

The ten-year grant has been awarded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to the University’s Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology…

Awards Funding

Snowball Earth Theory: Honoring a Pioneer of Glaciation Insights

This theory suggests that in its early history the Earth suffered glaciations so major that it froze over completely. It remains controversial, but has proved…

Science Education

Identifying Student Dropouts: Insights from Educational Software

Sotiris Kotsiantis of the Educational Software Development Laboratory at the University of Patras, Greece, explains how student dropout rates are much higher…

Physics & Astronomy

The world’s first free, open access astronomical observatory officially opened

Present at the opening ceremony were the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s Vice Rector of Research, Gonzalo León, the Dean of the School of Computing, Javier…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

IASS Launches Global Agriculture Network for Entrepreneurs

The symposium highlighted various aspects such as problems and challenges related to agriculture, apart from the effort to produce entrepreneurs in agriculture.

Information Technology

RFID Read/Write Devices: Harnessing ISO 15693 Functionality

Its ISO 15693 functionality makes the RF300 system also suitable for use in applications which only need simple types of transponders with little memory, such…

Event News

ASM Advances Heat Treating Techniques for Light Alloys

Held March 25-26 at the Doubletree Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., the “Heat Treating of Light Alloys” program will cover new techniques in processing,…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Unveil Weight-Loss Peptide Breakthrough

The search for weight loss therapies is as old as medicine itself. Small molecule treatments are marginally effective or cause undesirable side effects, some…

Life & Chemistry

Fluorescent Proteins: A New Era in Biomedical Research

These new tools are photoactivatable fluorescent proteins (PAFPs) and other advanced fluorescent proteins (FPs), several of which have been developed by…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover Brain's Memory 'Buffer' in Single Cells

The study, available online and appearing in the February issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to identify the specific signal that establishes…

Process Engineering

Laser Welding: Efficient Bonding of Polymers and Wood

Using laser welding for joining thermoplastics is an industrially established process. The advantages of this process are, among other things, high automation…

Earth Sciences

Polarstern Expedition LOHAFEX: Legal Reviews Confirm Research

Independent scientific and legal reviews sought by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature…

Information Technology

EGI Blueprint Approved: Building Europe’s Sustainable Grid

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) aims at establishing a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe, and at moving from a structure based upon short-term…

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