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iTunes Unveils Visual Jukebox Featuring Short Films

'Point Annihilation: Surf, Sex and Tattoos’ is a coming of age story about a young New Zealand surfer, is one of only fifteen films chosen by iTunes from…

Health & Medicine

New genetic model for Parkinson's disease

”The course of disease in these mice is strikingly similar to human disease”, says Dr. Lars Olson.In the mouse model generated by the research team, a gene…

Life & Chemistry

UF Scientists Uncover Evolutionary Link Between Fins and Limbs

Performance on the dance floor may not always show it, but people are rarely born with two left feet. We have genes that instruct our arms and legs to grow in…

Physics & Astronomy

Helium Atoms in New Nozzle Advance Imaging Techniques

A newly devised nozzle fitted with a pinhole-sized capillary has allowed researchers to distribute helium atoms with X-ray-like waves on randomly shaped…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Device Boosts Wind Turbine Efficiency Measurement

In West Texas, New Mexico, and other places around the world, wind turbines are used to generate electricity. But how can engineers determine their efficiency…

Life & Chemistry

How Worker Ants Store Fat for Colony Survival

“Understanding the regulation of nutrient reserves, particularly fat storage, at the individual and colony levels is critical to understanding both the…

Studies and Analyses

New Math Method Enhances Noise Analysis Techniques

In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Marcelo Magnasco, professor and head of the Mathematical Physics Laboratory at…

Environmental Conservation

Invasive Plants Thrive in Disturbed Exotic Regions

“Our results are novel,” says Jose Hierro (University of Montana and Universidad Nacional de La Pampa). “No one else has ever shown that ruderals, that is,…

Environmental Conservation

Thieves Foster Stable Coexistence Among Desert Rodents

“I gave up on traditional explanations when we couldn't find size-related tradeoffs in foraging rates or predator avoidance under different environmental…

Health & Medicine

Regular Multivitamin Use Lowers Preeclampsia Risk by 45%

Overall, women who used multivitamins regularly showed a 45 percent reduction in preeclampsia risk, according to the study. However, results were even more…

Life & Chemistry

EPFL Unveils New Protein Expression Core Facility

Producing proteins is a time-consuming, painstaking process, particularly from mammalian cell lines, and the investment required in terms of time, expertise,…

Health & Medicine

Remote Medical Expertise: DICOEMS Transforms Emergency Care

The DICOEMS project has developed a wireless technology platform enabling doctors in hospital emergency rooms to remotely manage treatment of accident and…

Life & Chemistry

New genetic model for Parkinson's disease

”The course of disease in these mice is strikingly similar to human disease”, says Dr. Lars Olson.In the mouse model generated by the research team, a gene…

Physics & Astronomy

Huygens Observations: New Insights and Published Findings

The results of those observations are now being collected together and published for the first time. The work gives valuable additional context within which to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

African Water Authorities Get Trained in Space Tools

ESA’s TIGER Initiative was launched in 2002 following the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. The primary objective of TIGER is to help…

Earth Sciences

Slippery Stretching: Unveiling Ocean Floor Formation Secrets

Most new ocean floor is made when undersea volcanic activity splits the crust and molten rock fills the gaps. However some new ocean floor develops when rock…

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