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Physics & Astronomy

ALMA Observatory Welcomes Its First State-of-the-Art Antenna

The first of many state-of-the-art antennas has just been handed over to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) project. ALMA is under…

Social Sciences

Income Gap Widening for U.S. Families Threatens Middle Class

“The gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is widening for families with children in the United States,” said Bruce Western, the study’s lead author and…

Information Technology

"Smart" Surveillance System May Tag Suspicious or Lost People

Intelligent video cameras, large video screens, and geo-referencing software are among the technologies that will soon be available to law enforcement and…

Earth Sciences

Early Climate Change: Evidence of a New Glacial Age?

But gathering physical evidence, backed by powerful simulations on the world’s most advanced computer climate models, is reshaping that view and lending strong…

Environmental Conservation

Strange Travels: Exploring Transport in Heterogeneous Media

Transport phenomena in highly heterogeneous media can be dramatically different from those in homogeneous media and therefore are of great fundamental and…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Catches Jupiter's Largest Moon Going to the 'Dark Side'

Ganymede completes an orbit around Jupiter every seven days. Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in…

Studies and Analyses

Women Boost Fruit and Veggie Intake with Mediterranean Diet

In a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System, women more than doubled their fruit and vegetable intakes and dramatically increased their…

Life & Chemistry

Engineering Algae for Sustainable Fuel Production

In pursuing cleaner energy there is such a thing as being too green. Unicellular microalgae, for instance, can be considered too green. In a paper in a special…

Earth Sciences

Alaska Volcano Eruptions Keep Scientists on Their Toes

Scientists from AVO and the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will share details of their research on North Pacific volcanoes,…

Earth Sciences

Biggest breach of Earth's solar storm shield discovered

“The discovery overturns a long-standing belief about how and when most of the solar particles penetrate Earth's magnetic field, and could be used to predict…

Studies and Analyses

How healthy are America's coasts?

The overall condition of the nation's coastal waters has improved slightly, based on a recently released environmental assessment. The National Coastal…

Health & Medicine

UIC Researchers Discover New Drugs for Leishmaniasis Treatment

More than 12 million people in 88 countries are infected with leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies. Nearly 2 million…

Life & Chemistry

Real-Time Gene Monitoring: Discover GeneVision’s Breakthrough

Imagine having GeneVision: the uncanny ability to view the activity of any chosen gene in real time through a specially modified camera.With GeneVision,…

Studies and Analyses

Oxygenating the Baltic: Pilot Study with SEK 20M Funding

This is what a pilot study, conducted by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, will try to establish, with the help of SEK 20 million from the Swedish…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Uncover Hidden Gold Deposits in Fäboliden

If we understood that we would be able to make new finds also in areas where we had not looked for it.In his research into the Fäboliden gold deposit along the…

Communications Media

Streamlined Extraction Method Captures Company News Insights

Information on, for example, events in a company from news texts; who is leaving which post, why, to which company and position the person is moving etc. In…

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