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Physics & Astronomy

Groundwater Springs: Key to Understanding Mars’ Surface Shaping

Scientists propose that groundwater had a greater role in shaping the martian surface than previously believed, and may have sheltered primitive life forms as…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Queen’s University Belfast plays a leading role in Europe-wide tests for safer food

Professor Chris Elliott, Director of the Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use at Queen’s, will lead a team of scientists in developing new tests aimed to…

Physics & Astronomy

New Light Source Enhances 3D X-Ray Imaging of Cells

The task of analyzing the internal structure of biological cells is a relatively complex affair. When using an electron microscope, the whole cells first have…

Life & Chemistry

Fluorescent Grooves: New Fingerprint Tech for Crime Solving

In order to arrest a culprit, police look for fingerprints at the scene of the crime. Magnetic powder is applied to the surfaces of objects with a magnetic…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough Insights for Young Male Cancer Patients

These words are from the cancer physician Olof Ståhl, who has studied this issue in his coming dissertation from Lund University in Sweden.It is known that…

Architecture & Construction

Learn Green Construction in New UALR Course This Spring

Beginning in the spring, budding construction managers at UALR — the University of Arkansas at Little Rock — and around the world can learn building…

Studies and Analyses

Empowering Low-Income Youth: Breaking Barriers to Education

“We know that for low-income youth, understanding the barriers to post-high school education is the key to creating solutions,” said Amanda Datnow, professor…

Social Sciences

Work-Life Balance Challenges: Insights from Recent Study

Using data from a 2002 nationally representative survey of more than 2,600 American workers, sociology professor Scott Schieman and Ph.D. student Paul Glavin…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Observes Brain Activity with $3.4M Navy Grant

The work, to be performed under a four year, $3.4 million research grant from the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research, aims at developing a concurrent brain and…

Information Technology

Data Preservation Tips from San Diego Supercomputer Director

The world has gone digital in just about everything we do. Almost every iota of information we access these days is stored in some kind of digital form and…

Automotive Engineering

Car Key Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Phones and Texting

The university has obtained provisional patents and licensed the invention – Key2SafeDriving – to a private company that hopes to see it on the market within…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Robots Aid Construction Worker Safety: Meet HyDRAS-Ascent

Team RoMeLa scored the cash prize of 1 million won (won is the currency of South Korea) with its robots, the HyDRAS-Ascent (Hyper-redundant Discrete Robotic…

Environmental Conservation

Flushing Toilets Linked to Genetic Defects in Wildlife

A few years ago, scientists at the University of Idaho discovered birth control pills not only control the human population, but also can devastate rainbow…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Tested Biocontrol Option for Soybean Aphids Unveiled

South Dakota State University soybean research and Extension entomologist Kelley Tilmon said there have been 10 releases of the insect, Binodoxys communis, at…

Earth Sciences

2004 Indian Ocean Quake Triggered San Andreas Fault Activity

In the last few years there has been a growing number of documented cases in which large earthquakes set off unfelt tremors in earthquake faults hundreds,…

Physics & Astronomy

Chemist Solves Longstanding Electron Computation Challenge

When the University of Chicago’s David Mazziotti talks about chemistry, perhaps he is thinking about how the behavior of all of the electrons in a molecule can…

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