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New Workflow Language Targets Climate Change Computing

“This new approach builds on research in the computer science community over the past 40 years. For much of that time, many claimed this line of work was of…

Environmental Conservation

SEK 700 Million Boost for Four Research Environments

They are to pursue outstanding basic research and have an expressed ambition to develop their collaboration with the business community and the public sector…

Physics & Astronomy

Through Saturn’s atmosphere

The prime aim of the Planetary Science Group at the University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) is, in fact, to study the atmospheres of the planets: their…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Discovers 16 Candidate Extrasolar Planets in Our Galaxy

Five of the newly discovered planets represent a new extreme type of planet not yet found in any nearby searches. Dubbed Ultra-Short-Period Planets (USPPs),…

Studies and Analyses

New EU Members: Leading Innovation in the Services Sector

At a first glance, new EU Member States such as Latvia, the Czech Republic and Romania seem to outperform many established European economies – including…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Norway’s Role in Solving the Global Energy Crisis

This is the opinion of Mr. Egil Lillestol, professor at the Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen. The past year he has spent much of his…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Pig Centre Bridges Lab to Farm for Innovation in Research

The National Pig Development Centre, funded by the British Pig Executive (BPEX), will create the largest facility for pig research, development and knowledge…

Physics & Astronomy

Sandia Researchers Revise Water Phase Diagram with Simulations

Supercomputer simulations by two Sandia researchers have significantly altered the theoretical diagram universally used by scientists to understand the…

Environmental Conservation

Fisheries Impact Galapagos Waved Albatross Population Decline

“If that happens every year, that is not sustainable,” said Jill Awkerman, a Wake Forest graduate student who is the lead author of the study published online…

Environmental Conservation

New Report Questions Ecological Hypothesis on Species Abundance

“When we reviewed data from published studies that looked at species abundance at multiple sites across a range, we found almost no evidence that supported the…

Life & Chemistry

Investigator seeks to uncover roots of DNA’s ‘sweet’ secret

Yet the graceful, sinuous profile of the DNA double helix is the result of random chemical reactions in a simmering, primordial stew. Just how nature arrived…

Life & Chemistry

Clemson Researchers Unveil Nanotech Solution Against Anthrax

Clemson University chemist Ya-Ping Sun and his research team have developed such a countermeasure strategy to weaponized anthrax, a biological agent used by a…

Life & Chemistry

Chemical found in curry may help immune system clear amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer's disease

Published in the Oct. 9 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, the early laboratory findings may lead to a new approach in treating Alzheimer's disease…

Health & Medicine

How Food Sparks Brain’s Hunger Centers: New Study Insights

“The levels were above the threshold for what's considered unhealthy for sensitive groups — people like children and the elderly — as determined by the…

Life & Chemistry

'Killer' B cells provide new link in the evolution of immunity

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have discovered a unique evolutionary link between the most primitive innate form…

Health & Medicine

Neurobiology of Amnesia: Scientists Debate Key Insights

This has been a vexed question for more than 30 years. Most psychologists tended to support the retrieval-deficit explanation, while neuroscientists interested…

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