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Business and Finance

Building Trust: Key to Successful Corporate Collaboration

In the global economy, corporate collaboration is becoming a necessity, making trust critical to the success of joint business ventures. A University of…

Studies and Analyses

Obesity Linked to Heart Failure Risk in 7,000 Adults Study

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged…

Environmental Conservation

Rediscovered: The Greater Dwarf Cloud Rat After 112 Years

A team of Filipino and American scientists have rediscovered a highly distinctive mammal ¨C a greater dwarf cloud rat ¨C that was last seen 112 years ago….

Earth Sciences

'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior

“The past maybe two or three years there have been a lot of papers in Science and Nature about the deep mantle from seismologists and mineral physicists and…

Communications Media

Instant Messaging: A New Language or Just Bad Grammar?

“Instant messaging, or IM, is not just bad grammar or a bunch of mistakes,” says Dr. Pamela Takayoshi, Kent State University associate professor of English….

Environmental Conservation

Scripps Oceanography Identifies Red Tide Killer Innovation

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential “red tide killer.” Red tides and related phenomena in which…

Life & Chemistry

Male seahorses are nature's Mr. Mom

Although it is common for male fish to play the dominant parenting role, male pregnancy is a complex process unique to the fish family Syngnathidae, which…

Physics & Astronomy

New Pulsating White Dwarf Star Discovered by Astronomers

University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and…

Earth Sciences

FSU geochemist challenges key theory regarding Earth's formation

Munir Humayun, an associate professor in FSU’s Department of Geological Sciences and a researcher at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, co-authored a…

Studies and Analyses

Go Speed Racer! Revving up the world's fastest nanomotors

In the new study, Joseph Wang and colleagues point out that existing nanomotors, including so-called “catalytic nanomotors,” are made with gold and platinum…

Life & Chemistry

Carnegie Mellon Technique Speeds Up Biological Image Analysis

Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Lane Center for Computational Biology have discovered how to significantly speed up critical steps in an automated…

Environmental Conservation

Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake

Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is…

Life & Chemistry

Woody and Aquatic Plants: Top Invasive Threats in China

Although China currently has fewer invasive woody plants than the United States, China’s potential for invasion by nonnative trees and shrubs is high,…

Life & Chemistry

Spiraling Nanotrees: A Fresh Approach to Nanowire Growth

But when University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Song Jin and graduate student Matthew Bierman accidentally made some pine tree shapes one day —…

Health & Medicine

Prostate Cancer Therapies: New Insights on IGF-1 Targeting

IGF-1 is a polypeptide hormone that can influence growth, differentiation and survival of cells expressing the type 1 receptor (IGF-1R). Past clinical,…

Interdisciplinary Research

New Research Grant Explores Heat Transfer Innovations

A team led by a University of Michigan mechanical engineer has received a five-year, $6.8-million grant from the Air Force to examine this problem, which is a…

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