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Earth Sciences

Satellite Data Uncovers Gravity Shift from Sumatran Quake

The discovery, reported in the latest issue of the journal Science, signifies a new use for the data from NASA's two GRACE satellites and offers a possible new…

Health & Medicine

A single sugar found responsible for an antibody's ability to treat inflammation

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is a complex mixture of IgG antibodies made from human plasma that contains the pooled antibodies from thousands of people,…

Life & Chemistry

New Mapping System Guides Skin Cell Development and Healing

These cellular cornerstones direct embryonic patterning and wound healing by sending vital location cues to their neighbors, and may help in growing tissue for…

Studies and Analyses

Uterine Cancer Linked to Inherited Lynch Syndrome Mutations

The study showed that 1.8 percent, or about one in 50, of newly diagnosed endometrial cancer patients have mutations for Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition…

Materials Sciences

Sandia Researchers Uncover Secrets of Attractive Surfaces

But action over these distances — though small to us — are unexplainable by conventional theories, which find no standard force sufficiently long-ranged to…

Medical Engineering

Nanotube X-rays: Faster CT Imaging for Medical and Security Use

The work is another step toward developing scanners for medical imaging and homeland security that are smaller, faster, and less expensive to operate, said Dr….

Physics & Astronomy

Cornell Researchers Redefine High-Temperature Superconductivity

“This came as a huge shock,” said J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell professor of physics, who with colleagues reports the findings in the Aug. 3 issue of the journal…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative System Delivers Power, Water, and Refrigeration Together

Now, in a project funded by the U.S. Army, two University of Florida engineers have designed, built and successfully tested a combined power-refrigeration…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Unveiled as Regulator of Fat and Cholesterol Production

“We have identified a key protein that acts together with a family of molecular switches to turn on cholesterol and fat (or lipid) production,” says principal…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals One in Five Crashes Linked to Driver Distraction

Findings from an Australian study on driver distraction found that drivers engage in a distracting activity on average once every six minutes, which frequently…

Physics & Astronomy

SMART-1 Mission Concludes: Key Innovations Unveiled

SMART-1 was launched on 27 September 2003, and it reached the Moon in November 2004 after a long spiralling around Earth. In this phase, the spacecraft tested…

Information Technology

Warwick Warp Secures £15K Funding for Fingerprint ID Tech

Warwick Warp raised £15,000 from two of OEI’s business angel investor members at a recent OEI investment meeting held jointly with Warwick Ventures, the…

Health & Medicine

Back Pain Management Experts Secure £250,000 Investment

Founded in 2004 by Charles Pither, a former consultant pain specialist at St Thomas’ Hospital London, and John O’Dowd, a former consultant spinal surgeon at…

Health & Medicine

Exercise Boosts Diabetes Care: DOROTHEA Program Insights

Professor Ann Taket has spent two years working with hospital staff on DOROTHEA, a £220,700 programme funded by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity that encourages…

Health & Medicine

Latex Allergy Risks: New Findings on Food Labeling Gaps

A group of experts from the UK Latex Allergy Support Group (LASG) Advisory Panel said that these results were significant. ‘For a few people, natural rubber…

Physics & Astronomy

Ancient Pigment Could Drive Innovations in Future Technologies

That could be the reality of future devices that allow electrons to be manipulated by their magnetic properties as well as by their electrical charge. The…

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