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UAF Geologist Explores Chicxulub Impact Crater Insights

In recent years, that impact event has been linked to a 112-mile-wide crater, dubbed Chicxulub, on the coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Since its discovery…

Earth Sciences

Raindrops Impact Soil Erosion: Understanding Micro-Ballistic Effects

What happens when the water hits the soil is the micro-ballistic effect of displaced soil splattering around in all directions. In arid regions, such as…

Life & Chemistry

UCLA and NYU Microbiologists Decode Trichomoniasis Genome

Trichomoniasis affects an estimated 170 million people a year, with more than 5 million cases reported in North America. This global health problem results…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Nanoimprint Lithography for Tiny Circuits

Led by Stephen Chou, the Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering at Princeton, the team worked to troubleshoot one form of nanoimprint lithography, a…

Information Technology

Sandia Simulation Tracks Illicit Nuclear Material Trade

A Sandia National Laboratories researcher has developed a simulation program designed to track the illicit trade in fissile and nonfissile radiological…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s THEMIS Mission Launches Five Probes to Unravel Auroras

NASA is poised to launch on Feb. 15 five identical space probes – the largest number of spacecraft ever attempted by the agency on a single rocket – to solve a…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists reveal secrets of Homer's Cyclops to help people with Holoprosencephaly

Homer's Cyclops might be myth, but a disorder that can cause babies to be born with only one eye is very real. Scientists from Cleveland, Ohio, and Paris,…

Information Technology

Children’s Game Design Software Enhances Learning Experience

With EPSRC funding, a new project at Heriot-Watt University aims to produce “Adventure Author” – innovative game-creation software specifically targeted at…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells: Paving the Way for Future Transplantology Insights

Research in the field of cellular technologies can lead to a new understanding of the development and differentiation of cells: their ability to transform into…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Cells: The Futile Search for Purpose Explained

The cell being in permanent futile search – is a cancer cell. This hypothesis was set forward by Russian scientists Yuri Vasiliev and I.M. Gelfand in the…

Health & Medicine

Hope for Spinal Cord Trauma: Breakthroughs from Russian Scientists

These are results of clinical experiments carried out by the specialists of Russian State Medical University and the Clinic of Rehabilitation Intervention…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Gasoline From Plastic: Scientists Turn Waste Into Fuel

This is one of unique examples how the scientists can use a material initially made of petroleum to get if not oil per se again but the product of petroleum…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Bacteria Treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Professor Simon Carding of Leeds’ Faculty of Biological Sciences has adapted a bacteria in our own bodies to make it produce a treatment for Inflammatory Bowel…

Studies and Analyses

Study Finds No Link Between Mobile Phone Use and Brain Cancer

The study on the possible connection between mobile phone use and the risk of a malignant brain tumour, glioma, was carried out in Denmark, Finland, Norway,…

Health & Medicine

Acupressure Treatment Eases Agitation in Dementia Patients

Researchers at the National Yang-Ming University in Taiwan found that providing 15-minute treatment sessions twice a day for five days a week yielded…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultrasensitive Optical Sensor Detects Viruses Quickly

Scientists of the Biophysical Engineering Group of the University of Twente in The Netherlands have developed an ultrasensitive sensor that can be used in a…

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