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Life & Chemistry

Jamaican lizards' shows of strength mark territory at dawn, dusk

What does Jack LaLanne have in common with a Jamaican lizard?Like the ageless fitness guru, the lizards greet each new day with vigorous push-ups. That's…

Architecture & Construction

TU Vienna’s Palette House: Innovative Euro-Palette Design in Venice

The used Euro-palettes module: A flexible construction that may be easily built up and also disassembled, which is not only cost-efficient, but also…

Science Education

Balancing Agendas: Challenges in School Reform Efforts

Despite investments, community goodwill and some good ideas, a vexing question remains in the age of school reform: Why has so much hope and effort led to…

Studies and Analyses

Endoscopic Ultrasound: Key to Clarifying Pancreatic Findings

The study appears in the August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for…

Life & Chemistry

Black Raspberries Alter Genes to Slow Cancer Progression

Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center examined the effect of freeze-dried black raspberries on genes altered by a chemical…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Turtle Fossil Sheds Light on Reptile Reproduction

A 75-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant turtle and a nest of fossilized eggs that were discovered in the badlands of southeastern Alberta by scientists and…

Environmental Conservation

Reevaluating Coral Reef Protection Zones for Effective Conservation

Now the team – led jointly by Newcastle University and the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York – say that urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse…

Life & Chemistry

Addressing Global Water Stress: Key Causes and Solutions

The dominant causes are the many stressors that affect lakes, rivers and wetlands globally: habitat loss, over-fishing, invasions by alien species, dams,…

Studies and Analyses

Cincinnati Streetcar Update: UC Study Confirms Progress

The University of Cincinnati is a proposed station stop along what may one day become a four-mile streetcar system in town. As such, UC recently turned to an…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Links to Anxiety Disorders: New Insights from Research

Research conducted under the supervision of Academy Research Fellow Iiris Hovatta have focused on genes that influence human behaviour, and some of the studied…

Environmental Conservation

Government Boosts Supply Chain Innovation in the UK

In the last two months CDP has teamed up with a range of the UK's major public sector organisations to extend its corporate supply chain work and create a…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Greenland’s Ice: Causes and Climate Impact

There have been many reports in the media about the effects of global warming on the Greenland ice-sheet, but there is still great uncertainty as to why there…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Fat Tissue: Insights from Recent Diabetes Study

When our bodies don't work properly, we say we're sick. A study published in the September issue of Diabetes finds that the same could be said for fat tissue…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the…

Physics & Astronomy

UCI Scientists Find Minimum Mass for Galaxies

By analyzing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the…

Medical Engineering

Innovative Less-Invasive Stents for Aortic Aneurysm Treatment

An estimated 60,000 Americans are walking around with time bombs in their chests called thoracic aortic aneurysms.At any time, their main chest artery could…

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