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New Study Reveals Insights into Young Carers’ Lives

Researchers in the University’s Young Carers Research Group (YCRG) used photographic methods to reveal new insight into the lives of children and young people…

Health & Medicine

Students’ product could reduce spread of infections like MRSA

The pair have designed a disposable tourniquet which they believe will pose no infection risk and which they hope will provide a cheap, comfortable alternative…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking White Light: Innovations in Photosynthesis Research

From an ecological point of view, photosynthesis is the most important photochemical reaction on our planet. It provides plants with the metabolistic energy…

Medical Engineering

Microscopic Detector Enhances NMR for Protein Analysis

Detecting the molecular structure of a tiny protein using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) currently requires two things: a million-dollar machine the size of…

Information Technology

'Tunable' network features coordinated frequency combs

The flexible network design can simplify accurate comparisons of the latest atomic clocks operating at different frequencies and in different locations. The…

Process Engineering

Tiny Spectrometer Transforms Laser Calibration in Research

The prototype device could replace table-top-sized instruments used for laser calibration in atomic physics research, could better stabilize optical…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: How Linezolid Inhibits Bacterial Growth

Scientists have known that the drug linezolid — the first new antibiotic to enter the marketplace in 30 years — works by binding to ribosomes, the protein…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Reprogram E. Coli for Custom Chemo-Navigation

Justin Gallivan, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry, and graduate student Shana Topp successfully reprogrammed E. coli's chemo-navigational system to…

Earth Sciences

Real-Time Monitoring Station Deployed On Active Underwater Volcano

This week, researchers will begin direct monitoring of the rumblings of a submarine volcano in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. On May 6, a team of scientists…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Drylands: Hopeful Insights from Recent Research

The study makes a point of introducing hope rather than the usual gloom, said James Reynolds of Duke University, who is the first author. “(Given) recent…

Life & Chemistry

Baumann Lab Identifies Proteins at Chromosome Ends

Published in today’s issue of Molecular Cell, their paper entitled “A RAP1/TRF2 Complex Inhibits Non-Homologous End Joining at Human Telomeric DNA Ends”…

Environmental Conservation

New Bacteria Discovered at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits

Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria…

Materials Sciences

The longest carbon nanotubes you've ever seen

Using techniques that could revolutionize manufacturing for certain materials, researchers have grown carbon nanotubes that are the longest in the world. While…

Life & Chemistry

LIAI Researchers Uncover Key Insights on CMV Transmission

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have shown that cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the salivary glands can be reduced – and in some cases…

Studies and Analyses

For better or for worse — Optimists and pessimists are influenced by different ad messages

Shailendra Pratap Jain (Indiana University), Charles Lindsey (SUNY Buffalo), Nidhi Agrawal (Northwestern University), and Durairaj Maheswaran (NYU) found that…

Studies and Analyses

License to sin — Asking people to think about vice increases their likelihood of giving in

The study, forthcoming in the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, found that asking people questions, like how many times they expect to give in to…

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