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Environmental Conservation

Smoke Smudges Mexico City’s Air, Chemists Identify Sources

Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny…

Life & Chemistry

New Nano Device Detects Immune Cell Signaling Effectively

The signals the researchers detected originated in dendritic cells – the sentinels of the immune system that identify microscopic invaders – and was received…

Environmental Conservation

Montana Study: Invasive Weed Threatened by Biocontrol Insect

But scientists in Montana have found that through complex community interactions among deer mice, native plants and seeds, the presence of an introduced fly…

Environmental Conservation

Evolving Designer Ecosystem Reveals Unintended Consequences

Amidst the semi-arid stretches of Phoenix, a visitor might blink twice at the sight of a sailboat cutting across the horizon. Tempe Town Lake, on the northern…

Earth Sciences

Warmer Seas Intensify Hurricanes: New Study Insights

Using global satellite data, FSU geography Professor James B. Elsner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor James P. Kossin and FSU postdoctoral researcher…

Information Technology

'Petascale' Climate Computer Modeling Heats Up

The development of powerful supercomputers capable of analyzing decades of data in the blink of an eye mark a technological milestone capable of bringing…

Life & Chemistry

High Calcium Linked to Higher Fatal Prostate Cancer Risk

“We show that men in upper range of the normal distribution of serum calcium subsequently have an almost three-fold increased risk for fatal prostate cancer,”…

Transportation and Logistics

Cycling Safety Increases with More Riders: Study Insights

International research reveals that as cycling participation increases, a cyclist is far less likely to collide with a motor vehicle or suffer injury and death…

Earth Sciences

Mapping the Unexplored Arctic: New Continental Shelf Insights

Both countries will use the resulting data to establish the outer limits of the continental shelf, according to the criteria set out in the Convention on the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Scientists grow 'nanonets' able to snare added energy transfer

Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Skeletal Diseases in Fast-Growing Dog Breeds

The degree studied the relationship between the speed of growth of young dogs and the development of common skeletal diseases such as elbow dysplasia and hip…

Studies and Analyses

Colorectal Cancer Screening: Start at Age 50, Study Finds

Colorectal adenomas, the precursor polyps in virtually all colorectal cancers, occur infrequently in younger adults, but the rate sharply increases after age…

Studies and Analyses

Eosinophils Target Asthma-Linked Fungal Infections

Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) have revealed that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a…

Environmental Conservation

Freshwater Impoundments Fuel Nuisance Invaders in Great Lakes

The research team combined data on water chemistry, the distribution of five “nuisance invaders” and boating activity from the Great Lakes region. The results…

Life & Chemistry

Virus Integrates Into DNA Passed From Parents to Babies

Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on…

Health & Medicine

Antioxidants – friend or foe?

However, free radicals should by no means be considered as being exclusively destructive. On the contrary, processes such as energy metabolism (in the…

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