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Environmental Conservation

Saving Plant Species: UC Santa Barbara’s Urgent Study

Because of the current crisis, biologists at UC Santa Barbara are working day and night to determine which species must be saved. Their international study of…

Physics & Astronomy

Cosmic Lens Unveils Distant Galactic Violence Insights

The astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth,…

Automotive Engineering

DuPont™ Zytel® nylon used for first polymer oil pan module adopted for serial-production cars

Working in close cooperation with the automotive supplier Bruss and DuPont, Daimler has achieved a genuine breakthrough by developing a modular design for its…

Earth Sciences

Impact of Land Use on River Water Discharge Variations

Regionally, however, discharge varied according to factors such as land use change and irrigation practices, temperature, and the concentration of the…

Health & Medicine

Research Shows Skin Creams Can Actually Dry Out Skin

And now there is research to confirm for the first time that normal skin can become drier from creams. Izabela Buraczewska presents these findings in the…

Science Education

Establishing research relationships from Paris to Almaty – "incrEAST" web portal launched to aid co-operation

Co-operations of this kind are not ends in themselves, but rather an important prerequisite to, for example, addressing global issues that are becoming…

Life & Chemistry

MU Scientist Traces Ancient Ocean Circulation Using Innovative Method

Even though the Cretaceous Period ended more than 65 million years ago, clues remain about how the ocean water circulated at that time. Measuring a chemical…

Life & Chemistry

Johns Hopkins Researchers Listen to Cellular Cross-Talk

The conventional wisdom was that the job of turning proteins on and off — and thus determining their actions — fell to phosphates, in a common and…

Studies and Analyses

Estimating Lives Lost From Delayed HIV Antiretroviral Use

In addition, an estimated 35,000 babies were born with HIV during that same period in the country because a feasible mother-to-child transmission prophylaxis…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cells’ DNA Breaks: A Normal Rite of Passage

Scientists have known for two decades or more that lymphocytes can break their own DNA in this fashion, creating splits in both of the two strands. However,…

Health & Medicine

Long-Term Hormone Effects of Birth Control Revealed

While studying the effect of post-menopausal dietary soy consumption on estrogen metabolism in cynomolgus monkeys, Latanya M. Scott, Ph.D., discovered that…

Health & Medicine

Thermography Shows Enhanced Wound Healing with wIRA Technology

In an original paper, just published in the interdisciplinary medical e-Journal “GMS German Medical Science” of the Association of the Scientific Medical…

Studies and Analyses

Ballet Dancers’ Fitness Outshines International Swimmers

The work, led by Professor Tim Watson and Dr Andrew Garrett, involved comparing members of the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet School with a squad of…

Health & Medicine

Developing Depression After a Heart Attack Increases One’s Risk of Death or Readmission …

Science has found many links between depression and other serious medical illnesses, such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, and heart disease. For example, people…

Studies and Analyses

High-Dose Hormone Treatment May Lower PTSD Risk: Study Insights

A new study by Cohen and colleagues, appearing in the October 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, suggests that the answer to this question is complex.In an…

Physics & Astronomy

Chandrayaan-1 Launch: India’s Next Step to the Moon

The PSLV-C11 rocket, an upgraded version of the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO’s) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, lifted off at 02:52 Central…

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