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Earth Sciences

Deep-Sea Pressure System Enhances Tsunami Detection

In order to extend alert times and avoid false alarms, a new seafloor pressure recording system has been designed to detect tsunamis shortly after their…

Corporate News

Get More for Your Hour – New Mindjet Study shows that Businesses can Gain up to 2 hours per Day!

The 1,000 people across Europe who took advantage of Mindjet's Productivity Self-Assessment Calculator found that they could actually gain a time saving…

Earth Sciences

Improving Climate Insights Through Global Fine Particle Measurements

The purpose of EUCAARI is to significantly improve current knowledge of the impact of fine particles in the atmosphere on climate and air quality. The first…

Environmental Conservation

Katrina’s Damaged Forests: A Climate Change Concern

“The carbon that will be released as these trees decompose is enough to cancel out an entire year’s worth of net gain by all U.S. forests. And this is only…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Optic Flow: How Vision Guides Movement

The motion we perceive with our eyes plays a critical role in guiding our feet as we move through the world, Brown University research shows.The work was…

Environmental Conservation

New South Florida Nursery Aims to Save Staghorn Corals

In response to the need for localized efforts to protect and recover the surviving populations of the threatened staghorn coral, Diego Lirman, Ph.D., and James…

Life & Chemistry

Poxvirus' ability to hide from the immune system may aid vaccine design

The study's authors say the finding will help efforts to design new vaccines for use against cowpox, monkeypox and, if it ever became a concern again,…

Life & Chemistry

Melatonin’s Impact on Nighttime Memory Formation

What do you do when a naturally occurring hormone in your body turns against you? What do you do when that same hormone – melatonin – is a popular supplement…

Studies and Analyses

Asthma and PTSD Connection Revealed in New Study

The study included 3,065 male twin pairs, who had lived together in childhood, and who had both served on active military duty during the Vietnam War. The…

Life & Chemistry

Genes influence age-related hearing loss

“This research confirms the importance of genetic factors in age-associated hearing loss, and the need for vulnerable individuals and their families to take…

Life & Chemistry

Grape powder blocks genes linked to colon cancer

Low doses of freeze-dried grape powder inhibit genes linked to the development of sporadic colorectal cancer, University of California, Irvine cancer…

Life & Chemistry

Human RecQ helicases, homologous recombination and genomic instability

The human RecQ family of helicases consists of 5 members: WRN, BLM, RECQL4, RECQL1 and RECQL5. These enzymes help to unwind DNA so to facilitate replication,…

Life & Chemistry

Boost Biosystems – creating a strategy for public-private collaboration in Medicon Valley

“If we are able to enhance public and private collaboration it can on the one hand lead to more jobs and new industries, and on the other enrich the academic…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Primary rain forest is irreplaceable

Working in the north-eastern Brazilian Amazon the international team of scientists undertook the single-largest assessment of the biodiversity conservation…

Information Technology

Researchers push transmission rate of copper cables

“Working with NEXANS, the company that manufactures the cable, we have examined the possibility of sending digital data at a rate of 100 gigabits per second…

Environmental Conservation

CGD ranks CO2 emissions from power plants worldwide

Now for the first time, the CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide, the globe’s most concentrated source of greenhouse gases, have been compiled into a…

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