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Health & Medicine

Green Tea’s Impact on Heart Disease Risk Factors: Study Insights

The study, performed by Dr Nikolaos Alexopoulos and colleagues at the 1st Cardiology Department, Athens Medical School in Greece, was a randomised trial…

Information Technology

Printed Optical Electronics: Innovations in Organic Materials

Researchers have long dreamed of being able to print electronic components directly onto organic materials such as paper, fabrics, or plastic. In addition to…

Earth Sciences

Unexpected carbon composition discovered in world's oldest diamonds

While examining the oldest diamonds in the world, a group of researchers, including Martina Menneken and Dr. Thorsten Geisler from the University of Münster…

Physics & Astronomy

40-30 helps CERN build world’s most powerful particle accelerator

40-30 has been involved in the LHC project for the past five years and a contract has been signed with CERN that applies until 2009. 40-30 has worked on the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Underground Solution: Compressed Air Energy Storage Explained

It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES).“Until recently energy has been relatively inexpensive. But now prices are rising dramatically, and we need…

Earth Sciences

New Insights Into North America’s Kankakee Sand Islands

Dr. Ron Janke began studying the origins of the Kankakee Sand Islands – a series of hundreds of small, moon-shaped dunes that stretch from the southern tips of…

Life & Chemistry

High Hormone Levels in Seabird Chicks Drive Sibling Rivalry

The study appeared in the June 18 edition of the online journal PLoS ONE available at http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0002460.The elevated levels of male…

Studies and Analyses

Consumers' Refrigerators: a Danger Zone

Several experts addressed home-based food safety issues in “Consumers’ Refrigerators: A Danger Zone” Monday at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual…

Health & Medicine

Mushrooms Uncovered: Health Benefits from Recent Scientific Insights

Several scientists addressed the health benefits of mushrooms in a session Monday at the Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Balancing Goats in Pastures: Insights from Soil Experts

Dale Ritchey, a retired soil scientist, and Doug Boyer, a hydrologist at the Agricultural Research Service's Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center in…

Technology Offerings

New Model Unveils Insights Into Human Expectations

The invention is a model of human expectations an judgments respectively. When you show some humans the probabilities of some constituent facts and you ask…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Crop Yields: Understanding Soil Water Availability

Quantitative determination of the maximum amount of plant-available water in soil using traditional methods on soil samples remains challenging, especially at…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pesticides Persist in Groundwater: Understanding the Impact

The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, formed in situ, can also contribute to the contamination of ground water. Once in ground water,…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Listeria Control Strategies for Protein Products

At this year’s Institute of Food Technologists Annual Conference and Food Expo, experts from the U.S. government, academia and food industry discussed how to…

Life & Chemistry

Nanotubes Enhance Research on Retrovirus Transmission

To better study the missions of these intercellular nanotubes, scientists have sought the means to form them quickly and easily in test tubes. Sandia National…

Physics & Astronomy

Phoenix Scrapes 'Almost Perfect' Icy Soil for Analysis

The robotic arm on Phoenix used the blade on its scoop to make 50 scrapes in the icy layer buried under subsurface soil. The robotic arm then heaped the…

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