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Life & Chemistry

BMI Misleading: Study Reveals True Body Fat Insights

A research team from Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University measured the BMI of more than 400 college students – some of whom were…

Life & Chemistry

Joslin Researchers Identify Key Factor in Diabetic Birth Defects

Over the past several years, Joslin Investigator Mary R. Loeken, Ph.D., and her colleagues at Joslin Diabetes Center have unlocked several mysteries behind…

Physics & Astronomy

Imaging 'gridlock' in high-temperature superconductors

In a standard scanning tunneling microscope (STM) topographic image of the surface of a cuprate semiconductor (left) atoms are arranged neatly in a crystal…

Environmental Conservation

Tundra Disappearing Faster Than Expected, Study Finds

This shift can happen at a much faster speed than scientists originally thought, according to a new University of Alberta study that adds to the growing body…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Flavonoids: Impact on Human Health

However, these same compounds may indeed benefit human health, but for reasons that are quite different – the body sees them as foreign compounds, researchers…

Studies and Analyses

NSF Report: Education and Employment Stats for Minorities

The report focuses on education and employment statistics for these groups.Figures and tables detail degrees earned, occupations, age, country of birth and…

Earth Sciences

Miniature Ice Spikes Reveal Warming Effects on Glaciers

CU-Boulder physics Assistant Professor Meredith Betterton said the spikes, known as penitentes, are shaped when concentrated rays of sunlight evaporate snow…

Automotive Engineering

Nanoscale Innovation Boosts Hydrogen-Powered Vehicle Potential

The results of their findings identify a clear trend in the behavior of extended and nanoscale surfaces of platinum-bimetallic alloy. Additionally, the…

Earth Sciences

Geologists Uncover Supervolcano Eruption Secrets

Using a new technique developed at Rensselaer, the team determined that there was a massive injection of hot magma underneath the surface of what is now the…

Studies and Analyses

UF study first to document evidence of 'mafia' behavior in cowbirds

Cowbirds have long been known to lay eggs in the nests of other birds, which then raise the cowbirds’ young as their own.Sneaky, perhaps, but not Scarface.Now,…

Health & Medicine

Sunny days pose risk of 'flicker illness' for a few airlifted patients

The report, published in the January/March volume, cites several studies, case reports and historical examples related to photosensitive epilepsy, suggesting…

Earth Sciences

NASA Analyzes Rainfall Patterns from Drizzles to Downpours

The effects of these weather crises have been devastating, and their frequency seemingly on the rise. With an understanding that the societal effect of…

Life & Chemistry

New Lipid-Based Treatment Targets Fungal Infections

Pharmaceutical Sciences Prof. Kishor M. Wasan has created a liquid preparation that incorporates drug molecules in fat (lipid-based formulation) so that…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Mutations Linked to Cleft Lip and Palate

University of Iowa researchers and collaborators have identified new genetic mutations that likely cause the common form of cleft lip and palateThe results…

Life & Chemistry

Single Gene Coordinates Honeybee Social Life: New Study Insights

In a new study published in PLoS Biology, Mindy Nelson, Kate Ihle, Gro Amdam, and colleagues reveal one possible path to community by showing that a single…

Physics & Astronomy

Molecular Hydrogen Jet Discovered from Forming High-Mass Star

Their article, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, reports the discovery of a jet of molecular hydrogen arising from a forming high-mass star located in the…

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