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Environmental Conservation

Hurricane Ivan’s Lasting Impact on Florida Coasts

A new study has examined the poststorm impact and the short-term recovery from Ivan along a 200-km stretch of coast from Fort Walton Beach to St. George…

Earth Sciences

Resilient form of plant carbon gives new meaning to term 'older than dirt'

It's as if the carbon, which comes from the waxy material plants generate to protect their foliage from sun and weather, has been going into a bank account…

Earth Sciences

Listening in on the birth pangs of Earth's crust

Scientific business-as-usual became an adventure in ocean floor geol-ogy for Donald Forsyth, Alberto Saal and their students when the instruments they were…

Life & Chemistry

Wheat gene may boost foods' nutrient content

Results from the study will be reported in the Nov. 24 issue of the journal Science.”Wheat is one of the world's major crops, providing approximately one-fifth…

Environmental Conservation

Global warming scientist in Canada to speak on 'From Here to Eternity'

Prof. Archer will show how aspects of the Earth system, such as the melting of the great ice sheets, the thawing of permafrost, and the release of methane from…

Life & Chemistry

Inbiobank Launches: Advancing Stem Cell Research and Use

Inbiobank is a non profit-making bank of stem and primary cells the function of which is to produce and characterise such cells for their use in applied…

Health & Medicine

Effective Self-Exposure Therapy for Reducing Nightmares

In open and randomized controlled trials self-exposure therapy reduced the frequency of nightmares but follow-up ceased at 7 months post-entry. Ten adults who…

Health & Medicine

Psychological Symptoms That Worsen Myocardial Infarction

They therefore examined the co-occurrence of anxiety and depression after MI, and the validity of a brief mixed anxiety-depression index as a simple way to…

Health & Medicine

Psychotherapy’s Impact on Severe Obesity Treatment Success

The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of psychodynamic and behavioral inpatient treatments of severely obese patients regarding weight…

Life & Chemistry

Old Enzyme’s New Tricks: Insights from NRP Scientists

NRP scientists led by Professor Anne Osbourn at the John Innes Centre (Norwich, UK) in collaboration with IGER (Aberystwyth, UK) and the Institute of Plant…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover First Ever Gamma Ray Clock in Space Signals

Regular signals from space have been known since the 1960s, when the first radio pulsar (nicknamed Little Green Men-1 for its regular nature) was discovered….

Life & Chemistry

Turbidity’s Impact on Wine Aroma: Insights from New Research

This is the conclusion of Nerea Jiménez Moreno in her PhD thesis defended at the Public University of Navarre. The PhD is entitled, “Ageing of red wine with…

Information Technology

Leicester’s Breakthrough Fingerprint Tech for Identifying the Dead

The University of Leicester, working with Leicestershire Constabulary and the Institute of Legal Medicine, University of Hamburg, recorded the first ever use…

Health & Medicine

60 per cent of doctors’ surgeries prescribe homeopathic or herbal remedies

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen analysed official prescribing data from 2003-4, covering 1.9 million patients from 323 practices. Their findings…

Environmental Conservation

Serengeti Patrols Reduce Poaching of Buffalo and Elephants

“Wildlife within protected areas is under increasing threat from the bushmeat and illegal trophy trades, and many argue that enforcement within protected areas…

Environmental Conservation

250M Years Ago: The Shift to Complex Marine Ecosystems

The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land…

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