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Life & Chemistry

Rare Albino Ratfish Discovered With Eerie Silvery Sheen

“Ratfish usually hang out in places with soft, muddy bottoms,” says Jon Reum, the aquatic and fishery sciences doctoral student who found the albino ratfish…

Business and Finance

Fairness Boosts Profits for Manufacturers and Retailers

In the paper “Fairness and Channel Coordination,” published in Management Science, Tony Haitao Cui, assistant professor of marketing, finds that in a marketing…

Physics & Astronomy

Collaboration shines possible light on objects 'weirder than black holes'

Finding such an unmasked form of what physicists term a singularity “would shock the foundation of general relativity,” said Arlie Petters, a Duke professor of…

Earth Sciences

Extraterrestrial Impact Linked to Ice Age Extinctions

A team of international researchers, including two Northern Arizona University geologists, reports evidence that a comet or low-density object barreling toward…

Physics & Astronomy

Modeling Earth-Sized Planets: Insights from MIT and NASA

Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; Catherine Hier-Majumder,…

Transportation and Logistics

PackAssistant: Smart Software for Efficient Container Packing

The German Fraunhofer Society, world-famous for its music compression method MP3, takes its leading packing solution “PackAssistant” (www.packassistant.com) to…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Offers Innovative Approach to Melanoma Treatment

New research presented today (Wednesday) at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) in Barcelona found that giving the new drug in addition to chemotherapy…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Identifies Key Biomarkers for Colon Cancer Treatment

As with many other solid tumours, doctors plan treatment of colon cancer chiefly by staging the tumour, which involves assessing how deep it has infiltrated…

Physics & Astronomy

SOHO's new catch: its first officially periodic comet

For the first time, SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) has found a rare type of comet called a periodic comet (which flies by…

Business and Finance

Predicting Future Interest Rates: Insights from New Research

In his dissertation “Modeling and Forecasting Stock Return Volatility and the Term Structure of Interest Rates” Michiel de Pooter investigates the…

Transportation and Logistics

Schiphol Airport’s Impact on Local Business Clusters Revealed

This has emerged from Pim Warffemius’s doctoral research on the clustering of distribution centres around Schiphol airport. He states that one third of the…

Studies and Analyses

Less Invasive Lymph Node Biopsy Could Save Thousands

In a study presented today (Wednesday) at the European Cancer Conference (ECCO 14) in Barcelona, scientists found that the less invasive technique produced a…

Life & Chemistry

UCD Researchers Unveil Blood Test for Arthritis Therapy Response

The group of clinicians and scientists based in UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research and St Vincent’s University Hospital, working with…

Social Sciences

Dissatisfied parents do not change their children’s kindergarten

Do we have mechanisms that ensure that poor kindergartens instigate measures to improve themselves? – Or are they simply replaced by kindergartens that offer a…

Information Technology

BEinGRID Unveils Project Results and Launches New Funding Call

Today, the first project results and innovative Grid solutions were promoted at the European Services, Software and Grid Technology Days (ESSGTD) event…

Physics & Astronomy

Hertfordshire Research Centre Welcomes Leading Astronomy Expert

She is presently leading two international surveys of the Milky Way, and will be joining a CAR team that is leading a large number of other major surveys in…

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