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How Ants Inspire Super-Highway Design Innovations

The raid always remains connected to the nest by a trail of forager traffic, along which prey-laden foragers run back to run back to the nest. This trail can…

Environmental Conservation

Review of pilot phase of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme finds it to be successful and …

Articles published today in the first issue of new journal, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy[1], describe the European Union’s Emissions Trading…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cows That Produce Skimmed Milk: A New Genetic Discovery

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered that some cows have genes that give them a natural ability to produce skimmed milk and plan to use this information…

Health & Medicine

How Cells Breathe: Insights from Recent Stockholm Research

Inside the cell, the oxygen and nourishment are transformed into energy and carbon dioxide, which we breathe out. In a new dissertation from Stockholm…

Information Technology

DecideIT: A Smart Tool for Making Tough Decisions

After several years of research at Mid Sweden University, the decision tool DecideIT has been developed for the purpose of enhancing the ability of…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Genes Linked to Higher Cancer Risk: Study Insights

MiRNAs play a number of roles in biological regulation, including development and cell differentiation, helping to determine what type a cell ultimately…

Health & Medicine

Stem Cells Mimic Cancer Appearance: New Insights Unveiled

Bone marrow stem cells attracted to the site of a cancerous growth frequently take on the outward appearance of the malignant cells around them, University of…

Environmental Conservation

Identifying Fecal Bacteria Sources in Nebraska Streams

Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In…

Environmental Conservation

Identifying Fecal Bacteria Sources in Nebraska Streams

Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cleaner Manure Enhances Ethanol Processing Efficiency

Auvermann, a Texas Cooperative Extension engineering specialist, hosted “Producing High-Value Manure for BioFuels and Fertilizer” recently in Hereford. The…

Environmental Conservation

Hurricane Risks Surge Along US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts

Much of the nation’s Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastlines face substantially higher-than-normal risks for hurricanes in 2007, according to an analysis by a…

Physics & Astronomy

Astrophysicists find fractal image of Sun’s ‘Storm Season’ imprinted on Solar Wind

Fractals, mathematical shapes that retain a complex but similar patterns at different magnifications, are frequently found in nature from snowflakes to trees…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Improved Paratuberculosis Vaccine: Key Inflammatory Insights

For her Dr .med. vet. degree at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science, Ólöf G. Sigurðardóttir studied and described early inflammatory changes in the…

Health & Medicine

Maternal Cannabis Use: Impact on Fetal Brain Development

The formation of connections among nerve cells occurs during a relatively short period in the fetal brain. However, proper wiring of hundreds of millions of…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Cold Water Corals: Polarstern’s New Voyage Begins

With a new coat of paint, thorough ship inspection, and sailing under the flag of the Helmholtz Association, Polarstern begins to make its way toward the north…

Environmental Conservation

Chinese space agency joins the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’

China National Space Administration (CNSA) Administrator Prof. Dr Sun Laiyan signed the Charter on 24 May at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, in the presence…

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