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Physicians have cure for senior's medication bill woes

A recent study directed by Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) suggests that seniors with low incomes or no prescription coverage were less likely to use…

Life & Chemistry

Extreme Environment Alters Fish Appearance: Protecting Species

But their environment is not only cramped: it also has a profound effect on the fishes' appearance, raising questions about how rare species can be protected…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Measure Day and Night on Extrasolar Planet

University of Central Florida Astronomy professor Joseph Harrington and University of California at Los Angeles professor Brad M. Hansen and their team have…

Physics & Astronomy

Molecular Spintronics Confirmed in Nanostructures

Whereas conventional electronic devices depend on the movement of electrons and their charge, spintronics works with changes in magnetic orientation caused by…

Earth Sciences

Shrinking Ponds Reveal Alaska’s Warming Trends

The analysis, by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research, indicates that these landscape-level…

Physics & Astronomy

Fossilized Liquid Assembly: A New Tool for Nanomaterials Research

Borrowing a page from nature's playbook, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel platform for the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST Unveils New Standard for Thin-Film Semiconductor Alloys

The 1-centimeter square coating, just 3 micrometers thick, is the first standard for the chemical composition of thin-film semiconductor alloys issued by the…

Health & Medicine

Effective Booster Shot Offers Hope Against Bird Flu Threat

The findings help address a major question facing public health officials: How to protect against a possible pandemic caused by a virus whose precise viral…

Materials Sciences

New SRM Fertilizer Reduces Heavy Metals in Agriculture

Modern multi-nutrient fertilizers produced for home and agricultural use are formulated from multiple sources to provide significant amount of nitrogen,…

Health & Medicine

New Tool Identifies Viruses Behind 2004 New York Illnesses

Nobody knew what had caused these mysterious illnesses until the Columbia team, led by Ian Lipkin, M.D., reanalyzed the samples and detected, in approximately…

Life & Chemistry

Insights Into Immune System Self-Protection Uncovered

A finding by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers about how immune cells “decide” to become active or inactive may have applications in…

Life & Chemistry

Algae Insights: New Discoveries in Cancer Research

Their findings, which will be published in the October 13 online edition of PLoS Genetics, show that RB blocks cells from dividing before they reach a minimum…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Innovate Room Temperature Method for Making Plastics

Unlike the traditional method for living polymerization, which has been around for more than 50 years, this method takes place at room temperature, uses less…

Environmental Conservation

Pollinator Declines in North America: Insights from Experts

European studies have documented declines of certain pollinator species, raising concerns that crop yields could drop or that ecosystems could be disrupted as…

Physics & Astronomy

First Images of Bizarre Binary Asteroid System Unveiled

A binary asteroid is a system where two asteroids orbit around one another, like a mini Earth-moon system, said Daniel Scheeres, University of Michigan…

Life & Chemistry

Major Breakthrough in Biofilm Dispersion by Researcher David Davies

David Davies has found and is in the process of synthesizing a compound that will cause biofilm colonies to disperse, thus leaving individual bacteria up to…

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