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Environmental Conservation

Dirty Ship Emissions Harm Coastal Air Quality, Study Finds

Chemists at UC San Diego have measured for the first time the impact that dirty smoke from ships cruising at sea and generating electricity in port can have on…

Life & Chemistry

Green Catalysts: Effective Solutions for Toxic Pollution Cleanup

Carnegie Mellon University's Terry Collins, the catalyst's inventor, believes that the small-molecule catalysts have the potential to be even more effective…

Life & Chemistry

Pesticide Build-Up Threatens Honey Bee Health and Survival

Add the outside assault to the pesticides already in the waxy structure of the hive, and bee researchers see a problem difficult to evaluate and correct….

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals How Daughter Cells Differ From Mothers

A research team has discovered a new mechanism for cell fate determination — how one cell, the daughter, becomes dramatically different from the mother, even…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Create Soft Landing Beds Using Protein Coils

Bedsprings aren't often found in biology. Now, chemists have succeeded in making a layer of tiny protein coils attached to a surface, much like miniature…

Health & Medicine

Study Reveals Positive Long-Term Outcomes for West Nile Virus

The long-term prognosis of patients infected with West Nile virus is good, according to a new study appearing in the August 19, 2008, issue of Annals of…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Silencing Technology Targets Disease-Causing Genes

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a new gene silencing technology that could be used to target genes that can lead to the development of certain diseases….

Life & Chemistry

Lake Washington Microbes Reveal Insights Through Metagenomics

In a paper appearing in Nature Biotechnology August 17, a collaboration headed by researchers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy…

Life & Chemistry

Monash Team Draws Inspiration from Nature to Split Water

The breakthrough could revolutionise the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen – touted as the clean, green fuel of the future – cheaper and easier to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Exploring Wastewater Use in Urban Agriculture: 52-City Report

As developing countries confront the first global food crisis since the 1970s as well as unprecedented water scarcity, a new 53-city survey conducted by the…

Life & Chemistry

New Air Pollutant Mimics Cigarette Smoke Effects

The discovery could help explain the long-standing medical mystery of why non-smokers develop tobacco-related diseases like lung cancer, said H. Barry…

Life & Chemistry

Safer Synthetic Heparin: Chemists Make Significant Progress

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration last spring linked contaminated batches of the animal-based product, imported from China, to more than 80 deaths and…

Health & Medicine

India Advances AIDS Vaccine Development with Phase I Success

A second Phase I AIDS vaccine clinical trial in India was successfully completed, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the National AIDS Control…

Science Education

Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford Unite for Innovation Research

“We are interested in the Design Thinking method of innovation, which has been successfully taught at both institutions. Through joint scientific research…

Studies and Analyses

Aboriginal Kids Count Without Numbers: A Surprising Study

The study of the aboriginal children – from two communities which do not have words or gestures for numbers – found that they were able to copy and perform…

Life & Chemistry

Menstrual Blood Stem Cells Save Limbs in Exciting Study

A study published today in BioMed Central’s open access Journal of Translational Medicine demonstrates that when circulation-blocked mice were treated with ERC…

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