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Life & Chemistry

Defective Gene Linked to Harmful Blood Glucose Levels

High levels of blood glucose increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and early death, even in healthy people who do not have diabetes and whose blood…

Physics & Astronomy

How Confinement Affects Liquid Viscosity in New Research

However, new research published in the March 14 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters shows that when fluids like water and silicon oil are confined to…

Life & Chemistry

Yale Scientists Uncover How Cancer Spreads: Key Findings

Their work was Published in the May issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. The studies, spanning 15 years, have revealed that the newly formed hybrid of the cancer…

Physics & Astronomy

High-Flying Electrons: A New Test for Quantum Theory

The experiment, outlined in a new paper,* would not only mean more accurate identifications of elements in everything from stars to environmental pollutants…

Materials Sciences

New 3-D test method for biomaterials 'flat out' faster

The technique, an advance over flat, two-dimensional screening methods, enables rapid assessment of the biocompatibility and other properties of materials…

Environmental Conservation

Excessive Tech May Harm Beneficial Bacteria, Study Finds

Too much of a good thing could be harmful to the environment. For years, scientists have known about silver’s ability to kill harmful bacteria and, recently,…

Environmental Conservation

Bison Thriving Again: Insights from Conservation Experts

The assessment was authored by a diverse group of conservationists, scientists, ranchers, and Native Americans/First Nations peoples, and appears in the April…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Explore Alaska’s Ice Cores to Unravel Climate Change

In an effort to better understand how the Pacific Northwest fits into the larger climate-change picture, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and…

Studies and Analyses

Online Interventions: Reducing HIV in High-Risk Populations

Young Internet-using men who have sex with men AND who meet their sexual partners both online and offline have greater numbers of partners, appear more likely…

Awards Funding

Essay competition – Feeding the poor today and everyone on the planet tomorrow

ResearchSEA has partnered with Helium.com to bring you the ResearchSEA – Asia Research News Citizen Journalism Awards. This essay contest is open until 30 May…

Business and Finance

Emerging Standards in Corporate Emergency Preparedness Plans

Three-quarters of the 302 senior corporate executives surveyed in mid-2007 said that an emergency preparedness plan exists in their companies. The analysis was…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tiger Teams Illuminate Cities with Solar Innovations

In the past year, an unusually innovative DOE program called Solar America Cities has focused on reaching out to formerly ignored, sometimes low-profile city…

Studies and Analyses

Chemicals From Teflon and Scotchgard Detected in Breast Milk

Chemicals used to make nonstick cookware and stain-resistant fabrics are spreading around the world and turning up in surprising places, everywhere from…

Health & Medicine

Profiling Ovarian Cancer: Insights from MUHC’s Dr. Gilbert

MUHC Gynecological Oncologist, Dr. Lucy Gilbert, has made it her mission to profile and track this killer, which takes so many lives because of delayed…

Life & Chemistry

Birdsong Insights: Young Birds Babble to Learn New Behaviors

Young songbirds babble before they can mimic an adult’s song, much like their human counterparts. Now, in work that offers insights into how birds—and perhaps…

Corporate News

The Linde Group and Waste Management are building the world's biggest plant for the conversion of landfill gas into biogas

The plant will begin operating in 2009. It is intended that the liquefied biogas will be used as a fuel for Waste Management's 300 trash and recycling…

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