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Health & Medicine

New Blood Thinner Shows Promise With Low Bleeding Risk

So when he didn’t see any significant increase in those typical bleeding events when studying a new blood thinner last year, UK College of Medicine…

Life & Chemistry

Genomics Challenges Microbe Species Definitions Today

With the advent of genomic sequencing and genetic analysis in the 1990s, our understanding of the relationships between different microorganisms fundamentally…

Medical Engineering

Light-based probe 'sees' early cancers in first tests on human tissue

If the preliminary success of the “optical biopsy” is confirmed through clinical trials, such a device could ultimately provide a particular advantage for…

Information Technology

Iowa State Unveils World’s Most Realistic VR Room

That virtual battlespace will be just one of the applications you could experience when Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Applications Center unveils its…

Environmental Conservation

Excess Water and Fertilizer Harm Plant Diversity in Ecosystems

Too much of multiple good things – water or nutrients, for example – may decrease the diversity of plant life in an ecosystem while increasing the productivity…

Physics & Astronomy

2-Photon Absorbing Molecules Create 65nm Polymer Features

Fabricating such small features normally requires expensive electron beam or extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment. However, using a technique called 3D…

Studies and Analyses

Body Image Struggles: How Models Impact Women’s Self-Perception

The rail-thin blonde bombshell on the cover of a magazine makes all women feel badly about their own bodies despite the size, shape, height or age of the…

Health & Medicine

Severe Dengue Infections: A Hidden Risk for Travelers

Dengue is the most important emerging disease among international travelers, with a 30-fold increase in incidence over the past 50 years worldwide. Like…

Life & Chemistry

New Metal Crystals Created from Cotton Fiber Innovation

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen…

Life & Chemistry

USA Presidential DNA Trail: Discovering Middle-Eastern Roots

Almost 10 years ago, the University of Leicester team, led by Professor Mark Jobling, together with international collaborators, showed that Thomas Jefferson…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Brain Injury’s Effects on Family Caregivers

The special April issue of the journal NeuroRehabilitation sheds light on the substantial advances in the science of family member and caregiver research with…

Environmental Conservation

Cat Converters: Insights from Experts at University of Rome

Claudio Botrè of the University of Rome and Alessandro Alimonti of the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome and their colleagues explain that the…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Patient Adherence for Effective Tuberculosis Treatment

The existing treatment, which combines several antibiotics prescribed for a period of 6 to 8 months – as against 18 months to 2 years still only a few years…

Business and Finance

Evaluating Corruption Indicators in Development Aid Effectiveness

To measure the impact of governance, and especially corruption, global indicators have been created and international databases have proliferated. These…

Earth Sciences

Himalayan Glacier Melting: Insights from Satellite Imagery

Satellite-imagery derived glacier surface topographies obtained at intervals of a few years were adjusted and compared. Calculations indicated that 915 km2 of…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic Reconnection in Turbulent Plasma: Insights from Cluster

Magnetic reconnection – a phenomenon by which magnetic fields lines get interconnected and reconfigure themselves – is a universal process in space that plays…

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