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Earth Sciences

New Research Reveals Storm Interaction Insights from Satellites

A paper published in Geophysical Research Letters describes how the AMMA scientists gathered new atmospheric data by using satellite imagery to plot flight…

Life & Chemistry

Unmasking DNA: Innovations in Nanoscale Structure Design

DNA is one of the most popular building blocks of nanotechnology and is commonly used to construct ordered nanoscale structures with controlled architectures….

Life & Chemistry

Aye-Aye Study Reveals Unique Color Vision in Nocturnal Creatures

Verrelli and his ASU team have performed the first sweeping study of color vision in the aye-aye (pronounced “eye-eye”), a bushy-tailed, Madagascar native…

Health & Medicine

Brain Plasticity Breakthrough: Vision Area Reorganized Post-Stroke

This finding demonstrates plasticity, the ability of a brain area to change its functioning, in the adult human brain. The finding will not lead immediately to…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Detects Fatty Hearts in Pre-Diabetics

The technique detects fat accumulation in cells of the beating heart in a way no other clinical method can, the researchers said, and may provide a way to…

Health & Medicine

Nicotine in breast milk disrupts infants' sleep patterns

A study from the Monell Chemical Senses Center reports that nicotine in the breast milk of lactating mothers who smoke cigarettes disrupts their infants' sleep…

Life & Chemistry

Targeting Bacteria in Red Mites to Control Poultry Pests

Economic losses inside the European Union caused by the red poultry mite are now running at roughly €130 million or nearly £90 million every year. The mite…

Life & Chemistry

Fast Microchip Test Detects Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

For the first time doctors and veterinarians will be able to test clinical samples from their patients for the presence of the genes for antibiotic resistance…

Life & Chemistry

Probiotics: Good Bugs That May Control Gut Infections

Scientists from the UK’s Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, Surrey have shown that probiotics – the good bacteria taken by millions of people…

Life & Chemistry

Insecticidal Toxins: New Insights from Nematode-Bacteria Synergy

Speaker Michelle Hares, of the University of Exeter, studies insect-killing nematode worms which have symbiotic bacteria living in their guts. When the worm…

Studies and Analyses

Blood Pressure Drugs Lower Death Rate in Type 2 Diabetes

One of the study leaders, Professor Stephen MacMahon, Principal Director of The George Institute, said “These results represent an important step forward in…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Develop Long-Lasting Growth Hormone Therapy

Most hormones and cytokines have a short life and therefore require frequent injections as therapy. However, the new technology developed by the…

Life & Chemistry

Autoimmune Response Affects Fertility in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Studying Arabidopsis thaliana, sometimes called thale cress, the researchers identified a phenotype that, when paired together from a male and female, produced…

Studies and Analyses

Headshots Are Safe: New Findings in Sports Medicine

The findings are published in the latest issue of the scientific journal British Journal of Sports Medicine.”Thus far, neuropsychological tests and x-ray…

Information Technology

W3C Unveils Open Standard for Web Services Policies

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium issued a critical Web standard for extending the features of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)…

Health & Medicine

Gene Linked to Severe Urinary Tract Infections Identified

Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have found a gene that appears to lie behind many of the most severe urinary tract infections. The study is published…

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