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Business and Finance

Market Forces in Utilities: Impact on Companies vs. Society

Recent discussions with regard to top salaries in the energy sector and the privatisation of Schiphol Airport indicate that politicians, as well as average…

Life & Chemistry

EURYI Award Winner Explores Brain Wiring During Embryogenesis

Sonia Garel has won one of the prestigious EURYI Awards granted annually to young scientists, to pursue her ground breaking research into mammalian forebrain…

Life & Chemistry

Better Batter: New Insights from Tokyo University Research

Dr Thanatuksorn and his team at Tokyo University of Technology studied how the structure of the batter molecules changes during the frying process. By altering…

Health & Medicine

MIT model could improve some drugs' effectiveness

The team has already used the model to create a new version of cetuximab, a drug commonly used to treat colorectal cancer, that binds to its target with 10…

Life & Chemistry

Mass Spectrometry Insights: Analyzing Living Subjects

In science fiction movies, it happens all the time: A small device is briefly held against the skin of a sick crewmember and seconds later the monitor displays…

Studies and Analyses

Mitochondrial Variation in Sperm Traits: New Study Insights

University of Nevada, Reno researchers Jeanne and David Zeh of the Department of Biology have received a five-year, $650,000 grant from the National Science…

Studies and Analyses

Grocery Retailers Need Not Fear 'Cherry Pickers'

The study by Debabrata (Debu) Talukdar, associate professor of marketing in the University at Buffalo School of Management, K. Sudhir, professor of marketing…

Environmental Conservation

NASA celebrates a decade observing climate impacts on health of world's oceans

A decade later, the satellite's data has proved instrumental in countless applications and helped researchers paint a picture of a changing climate. NASA…

Earth Sciences

Using video-game technology to find oil & gas

What do video games and seismic explorations have in common” Both require very demanding computer applications that call for the ability to process massive…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Uncover Novel Quantum Effect in Laptop Heat Management

Most laptop users notice it skin deep: when you place your mobile companion on your lap and go surfing the internet for a while, the computer gets really warm….

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Animal Diversity: Insights from Australian Lizards

A new study of finger-sized Australian lizards sheds light on one of the most striking yet largely unexplained patterns in nature: why is it that some groups…

Life & Chemistry

Brown Scientists Create 3D Petri Dish for Cell Growth

A team of Brown University biomedical engineers has invented a 3-D Petri dish that can grow cells in three dimensions, a method that promises to quickly and…

Environmental Conservation

Canada's pristine freshwater fisheries at risk

If you want to catch a trophy northern pike, walleye or brook trout in the northern Canadian wilderness, better plan your trip soon. That’s because according…

Studies and Analyses

Pregnancy may slow — not accelerate — progression to AIDS

Before the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), many women with HIV infection or AIDS were told that becoming pregnant would be unwise…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Insights from Genome Scan for Heart Disease Traits

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the National Heart, Lung and Blood…

Health & Medicine

Scientists identify cause of Job's syndrome

The NIH team’s report will be available the evening of September 19 online in The New England Journal of Medicine. The Tokyo group published its findings in…

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