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New IQ Test Scoring System Benefits Children with Disabilities

Parents of children with intellectual disabilities have long been frustrated by IQ testing that tells them little to nothing about their children's long-term…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Biomass Innovation: A Sustainable Future for Energy Supply

A global energy supply based on biomass grown to generate electricity and produce fuel is a real possibility. According to Prof. Jürgen O. Metzger from Carl…

Science Education

New Strategic Partnership in European Marine Research – Memorandum of Understanding signed by the three leading institutes

The institutes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 15 December, in Kiel, Germany in the presence of the Prime Minister of the German State of…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Tests Aim to Prevent Northwick Park Trial Issues

But Dr Stephen Poole, speaking at the British Pharmacological Society’s Winter Meeting in Brighton today (Tuesday), said that research is still “ongoing” to…

Life & Chemistry

Simultaneous Tracking of Gene Expression and Movement

The new technique, described in the open access journal BMC Biotechnology, will allow detailed analyses of correlations between behavior, gene expression and…

Studies and Analyses

Low-Income Men Face Higher Rates of Advanced Prostate Cancer

In a study scheduled for publication in the February 2009 issue of The Journal of Urology, researchers report that for low-income men, the opposite is true,…

Studies and Analyses

God or Science? How Beliefs Impact Our Perspectives

What’s more, those views can be manipulated, the researchers found. After using science or God to explain such important questions, most people display a…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Trick Bacteria Into Self-Destruction For Survival

“The basic idea is for an antimicrobial to target something in a bacteria that, in order to gain immunity, would require the bacteria to kill itself through a…

Studies and Analyses

Study Looks at Why Restaurant Workers Don't Wash Hands and Follow Other Food Safety Practices

According to a recent Kansas State University study, restaurant workers blame time constraints, inconvenience, inadequate training and inadequate resources for…

Architecture & Construction

People, Not Just a Building, Make for 'Place'

“It is a humanistic inquiry that recognizes that buildings and settings, alone, do not make place,” he said in a talk Dec. 13 at the annual meeting of the…

Life & Chemistry

Maryland Team Develops Universal Avian Flu Vaccine

A University of Maryland-led science team has developed a universal influenza vaccine for animals that may help prevent or delay another human flu pandemic.Led…

Health & Medicine

Tiny Ultrasound Device Travels Through Eardrum for Hearing Insights

Imagine an ultrasound device so small, it could travel through the eardrum, onwards through the middle ear and then rest against the inner ear to provide…

Environmental Conservation

Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Makes It Easy to be 'Green'

From Deep Blue, the computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in a 1997 chess match, to the new Blue Gene® line of high-performance computers created by IBM, a…

Physics & Astronomy

Newly Discovered Magnetosphere Region Enhances Space Research

The study was conducted by a team of scientists headed by Charles “Rick” Chappell, research professor of physics and director of the Dyer Observatory at…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking DNA Methylation Insights Through Fungal Research

DNA methylation is essential for normal growth and development in plants and animals. It has been implicated in long-term memory, and irregularities in its…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Variants Unlock Nutrigenomics Research Potential

The discovery opens up new opportunities for nutrigenomics researchers looking for links between diet and genetics that will optimize health and lower chronic…

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