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Life & Chemistry

Boost Biosystems: Bridging Research and Small Enterprises

Under the project name “Boost Biosystems”, a ScanBalt BioRegion consortium creates the basis for an intensive integration of researchers and small enterprises…

Power and Electrical Engineering

MIT Unveils Next-Gen Transistor Technology Beyond Silicon

The work will be presented at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting Dec. 11-13 by Dae-Hyun Kim. Kim is a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of…

Environmental Conservation

University of Minnesota Study: Mixed Prairie Grasses as Biofuel

Highly diverse mixtures of native prairie plant species have emerged as a leader in the quest to identify the best source of biomass for producing sustainable,…

Materials Sciences

Fibers Boost Bullet-Proof Vests’ Toughness in Dental Composites

Vistasp Karbhari, a professor of structural engineering at UC San Diego, has developed fiber-reinforced polymer composites as strong, lightweight materials for…

Earth Sciences

Insights from Rare Tsunami Earthquake Reveal Wave Amplification

Among the surprises is data indicating that a secondary underwater movement amplified the original tsunami to create a wave run-up more than 60 feet high along…

Environmental Conservation

NASA Study Links Climate Change to Ocean Food Supply Decline

By comparing nearly a decade of global ocean satellite data with several records of Earth's changing climate, scientists found that whenever climate…

Earth Sciences

Isotope Findings Challenge Plate Tectonics Theories

One great beauty of plate tectonics theory is that it explains so many geological phenomena at one time. But plate tectonics could not explain the location of…

Life & Chemistry

Brown Scientists Uncover DNA-Doctoring Protein Complex Structure

More than half of the human genome is made up of bits of mobile DNA, which can travel inside the body and insert genes into the chromosomes of target cells….

Life & Chemistry

Key Factors Influencing Maize Kernel Yield and Nitrogen Use

All of the nitrogen in a plant, whether derived initially from nitrate, nitrogen fixation, or ammonium ions, is converted to ammonia, which is rapidly…

Health & Medicine

Sleep problems — real and perceived — get in the way of alcoholism recovery

The first few months of recovery from an alcohol problem are hard enough. But they’re often made worse by serious sleep problems, caused by the loss of…

Health & Medicine

'Diabetes gene' may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome

PCOS affects up to five percent of the female population, and those diagnosed with the disease have a 2- to 7-fold risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus…

Physics & Astronomy

No matter their size black holes 'feed' in the same way

For many years astronomers have been trying to understand the similarities between stellar-mass sized Galactic black hole systems and the supermassive black…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Lr34 and Yr18 Enhance Wheat Rust Resistance

The genes, Lr34 and Yr18 are inherited together and provide wheat plants with improved protection against leaf rust and stripe rust – two major diseases of…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Treatment for Rare Childhood Muscle Disorder

The disorder causes profound muscle weakness and heart and breathing problems and affects as many as one in 40,000 births. The study is published in the online…

Health & Medicine

'GreeneChip' — New diagnostic tool that rapidly and accurately identifies multiple pathogens

The GreeneChip is the first tool to provide comprehensive, differential diagnosis of infectious diseases, including those caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi,…

Environmental Conservation

Global Warming Threatens Ocean Productivity and Marine Life

The study, published this week in the journal Nature by researchers from Oregon State University and five other institutions, found that on a global scale, a…

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