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How Pregnancy Stress Impacts Unborn Child Development

Stress hormones are pumped into our blood when we become anxious. These hormones are good in the short term because they help our bodies deal with the present…

Corporate News

Mindjet Launches MindManager 7: Enhanced Visualization Tools

Mindjet® Corporation today announced the highly anticipated and immediate availability of the next generation of its popular visualization software,…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic field uses sound waves to ignite sun's ring of fire

Sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red…

Life & Chemistry

E. coli Evolution: Adapting to Shifting Acidity Levels

Forthcoming in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, a fascinating new selection of papers collects leading experimental research in evolution and artificial…

Materials Sciences

Eco-Friendly Conductive Plastics from Renewable Soybeans

Polymer matrix composites with carbon black are very interesting materials. This is because the carbon black can be used as filler material and can…

Materials Sciences

Zirconium’s Impact on Hybrid Advanced Material Properties

Organic-inorganic hybrid materials are significantly important materials due to their peculiar properties. These properties come from a unique combination of…

Medical Engineering

'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death

MDCT is comparable to conventional autopsy in demonstrating airway froth and sediment that are indicative of drowning.”Our findings show that MDCT can be used…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's FUSE Satellite Catches Collision of Titans

The system, known as LH54-425, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The binary consists of two O-stars, the most…

Physics & Astronomy

Spitzer Discovers Thousands of Dwarf Galaxies in Cluster

Despite their diminutive sizes, dwarf galaxies play a crucial role in cosmic evolution. Astronomers think they were the first galaxies to form, and they…

Studies and Analyses

Cancer Rise in Sweden Linked to Chernobyl Fallout Research

Was the increase in cancer caused by the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl or could it be explained by other circumstances? New research from Linköping…

Life & Chemistry

Discover How Computers Can Sense Heartbeats

Today's powerful computers have opened previously unimagined possibilities regarding the presentation and analysis of scientific data. Volume data, in…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals How Brain Activity Reflects Anxiety Types

“The possibility of an influenza pandemic, whether sparked by H5N1 or another influenza virus to which humans have no natural immunity, is of serious concern…

Health & Medicine

Blood inflammation plays role in Alzheimer's disease

The study, which is part of the larger Framingham Heart Study, involved 691 healthy people with an average age of 79. Blood tests determined whether the…

Life & Chemistry

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

The results, appearing today in the online edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience, reveal a new mechanism of learning in the brain, which might serve in…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanoscale UV LEDs: Advancing Light-Based Innovations

Light-based nanoscale devices, such as LEDs, could be important building blocks for a new generation of ultracompact, inexpensive technologies, including…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST Unveils Quantum Tricks with Atom Interferometry

Their experiments showcase some of the extraordinary behavior taken for granted in the quantum world—atoms acting like waves and appearing in two places at…

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