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Biogas Production from Waste Water: A Sustainable Solution

The present invention focuses on a procedure to produce biogas from waste water. Liquids containing organic compounds, such as water polluted with glycerine,…

Life & Chemistry

Green Gel: New Hybrid Materials from UC Berkeley Researchers

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) have now developed a new strategy for the formation of hybrid materials from synthetic polymers and…

Studies and Analyses

Fishing Throws Targeted Species Off Balance, Study Reveals

Research led at Scripps with a distinguished team of government and international experts (including two chief scientific advisors to the United Kingdom)…

Earth Sciences

Jet Streams Shift: Impact on Storm and Hurricane Paths

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution determined that over a 23-year span from 1979 to 2001 the jet streams in both hemispheres have risen in altitude and…

Life & Chemistry

Bloodless Worm Reveals Insights on Iron Deficiency in Humans

With C. elegans , a common microscopic worm that lives in dirt, Iqbal Hamza, assistant professor of animal and avian sciences, and his team identified…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Intelligence in Slowly-Developing Primate Species

The four investigators compared key benchmarks in the development of 28 different primate species, ranging from humans living free of modern trappings in South…

Studies and Analyses

Older people are nation's happiest

Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to a University of Chicago study that is one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies Reveal Salmonella’s Immune Evasion Tactics

Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at once and set up shop in a host…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Fragmentation of TV News Audiences by Partisanship

“Ideology and partisanship used to be completely unrelated to the television news people consumed,” said study author Barry Hollander, associate professor of…

Life & Chemistry

Cone Snails and Plants Inspire New Pain Relief Drug

Professor David Craik and Dr Richard Clark from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience have received $218,275 from the National Health and Medical Research…

Health & Medicine

Flu Source Identified: Viral Reservoirs in Tropical Regions

“We now know where the influenza A virus comes from every year,” said Edward Holmes, professor of biology at Penn State. “And because we now know how the virus…

Life & Chemistry

Groundbreaking Discovery: RGS5 Gene May Treat Tumors

Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) Associate Professor Ruth Ganss and her team have found that a gene called RGS5 can reverse…

Health & Medicine

New Disorder Revealed in Pork Processing Plant Outbreak

Neurologists have identified the illness as a new disorder which causes symptoms ranging from a transverse myelitis syndrome, inflammation of the spinal cord,…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Lowers Cocaine Use in Rats: New Research Insights

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that increasing the brain level of receptors for dopamine, a…

Health & Medicine

Flu Viruses Spread Worldwide After Exiting Asia: New Insights

These findings suggest that by focusing surveillance efforts on East and Southeast Asia, researchers may be able to extend their forecast of the flu strains…

Life & Chemistry

Protein’s Role in Cell Communication: A New Perspective

Radio and cable are not required for communication within and between living cells. Rather, signal transduction in cells is performed by a multitude of…

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