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Moderate Alcohol May Reduce Cardiac Risk in Middle Age

Studying 7,697 people between 45 and 64 who were non-drinkers and who were participating in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study over a 10 year…

Social Sciences

New Study Unveils Insights on Cooperation and Punishment

In a new international study of 16 countries, published in the prestigious journal Science, economists studied the extent to which some people will sacrifice…

Physics & Astronomy

Sun’s Corona is both hot and kinky

The Sun’s core is about 6000 degrees C, but its outer layer, the Corona, which is filled with a strong magnetic field, is 200 to 300 times hotter. Last year…

Health & Medicine

How Parental Supervision in High School Reduces College Drinking

The findings strengthen the idea that certain parental practices throughout high school and perhaps college could be used to curb high-risk drinking in older…

Science Education

London School of Hygiene Secures $59M for Disease Research

MalariaThe Malaria Centre at LSHTM is one of the most active malaria research groupings worldwide. The School currently co-ordinates the Gates Malaria…

Process Engineering

Membrane Bioreactor and Reverse Osmosis Transform Pulp Industry

The Siemens Industry Solutions Division (IS) has received an order from Albert Köhler GmbH & Co. KG in Gengenbach, Germany, to install a membrane bioreactor…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Life’s History: Insights from Transfer RNA Structure

The study, co-written by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, a professor of crop sciences, and postdoctoral researcher Feng-Jie Sun, appears March 7 in PLoS Computational…

Environmental Conservation

Lowly Icelandic midges reveal ecosystem's tipping points

At their peak, it is difficult to breathe without inhaling the bugs, which hatch and emerge from the lake in blizzard-like proportions. After their short adult…

Life & Chemistry

Gladstone Scientists Uncover Tiny RNAs’ Role in Stem Cell Fate

Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and the University of California, San Francisco have identified for the first time how…

Studies and Analyses

Bacteria Found to Lower Kidney Stone Risk, New Study Reveals

Kidney stones are an important health problem in many countries. In the United States, the lifetime risk for developing a stone is five to 15 percent, and a…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Alliance Supports Embryonic Stem Cell Maintenance

One of the four ingredients in the genetic recipe that scientists in Japan and the U.S. followed last year to persuade human skin cells to revert to an…

Life & Chemistry

Sticky Blood Protein Offers Insights Into Autism Research

New research by Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators provides a physical basis for this phenomenon, which may have profound implications for the…

Medical Engineering

Single CT Scan Enables Comprehensive Heart Disease Diagnosis

In the current issue of the journal Circulation, a research team from the Medical University of South Carolina’s (MUSC) Heart & Vascular Center report their…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Target Emerges for Atherosclerosis Treatment

Their findings, reported in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offer a new and specific target for the…

Health & Medicine

MIT’s PANTHER Sensor Quickly Detects Pathogens in Environment

The new device, called PANTHER (for PAthogen Notification for THreatening Environmental Releases), represents a “significant advance” over any other sensor,…

Health & Medicine

Transforming Wound Care: Benefits of Water-Filtered Infrared-A

wIRA can considerably alleviate the pain and diminish an elevated wound exudation and inflammation and can show positive immunomodulatory effects. wIRA…

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