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Life & Chemistry

Scientists Find Organizing Principle for the Sense of Smell

But new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that odors can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, and this turns out to be an organizing…

Physics & Astronomy

Stardust Found in Distant Exoplanetary Systems

Searching for extra-solar planets – which are planets outside of our solar system – is very popular these days. About 700 planets are known at the moment, a…

Information Technology

Enhancing Rescue Efforts with SENEKA’s Innovative Solutions

This makes it all the more important for rescue teams to get a quick overview of the situation at hand. In SENEKA, a Markets Beyond Tomorrow project,…

Physics & Astronomy

A Further Step in the Design of the LAGUNA Large Neutrino Observatory Is Launched

The principal goal of LAGUNA (Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) is to assess the feasibility of a new pan-European research…

Life & Chemistry

Integrating the world’s scientific databases through ontology

Hiroshi MasuyaUnit LeaderTechnology and Development Unit for Knowledge Base of Mouse PhenotypeRIKEN BioResource CenterResearchers at the RIKEN BioResource…

Physics & Astronomy

Future 'comb on a chip': NIST's compact frequency comb could go places

While typical lasers operate at only a single or handful of frequencies, laser frequency combs operate simultaneously at many frequencies, approaching a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Discover How City Shadows Reveal Urban Energy Flow

“Solar radiation that falls on a certain point in the city varies depending on the time of day, the weather conditions, the pollution level and other…

Health & Medicine

Multiple Sclerosis: A New Perspective as a Metabolic Disorder

Framing MS as a metabolic disorder helps to explain many puzzling aspects of the disease, particularly why it strikes women more than men and why cases are on…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Finds Farthest Galaxy Protocluster at 13.1 Billion Light-Years

In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble found five tiny galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Study Reveals One Planet Per Star in Milky Way

There is on average at least one planet orbiting every star in the Milky Way. This remarkable conclusion comes from an international team of astronomers,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Running Robots

According to University of Delaware assistant professor Ioannis Poulakakis, a large fraction of the Earth’s surface remains inaccessible to conventional…

Life & Chemistry

Ocean Warming Forces Elephant Seals to Dive Deeper

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating in a joint study with biologists and…

Health & Medicine

New Method Simplifies Treatment for Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer

The reason that internal tumours are not treated with the method is that the technology does not exist to check that the precise amount of light is…

Physics & Astronomy

Hercules Galaxy Cluster: Exploring Cosmic Wonders Up Close

The Hercules galaxy cluster (also known as Abell 2151) lies about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It is unlike other nearby…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer epigenetics: breakthrough in ID’ing target genes

Cancer is usually attributed to faulty genes, but growing evidence from the field of cancer epigenetics indicates a key role for the gene “silencing” proteins…

Health & Medicine

Princeton Researchers Uncover Neural Patterns in Memory Formation

By following the brain activity of mice as they navigated a virtual reality maze, the researchers found that populations of neurons fire in distinctive…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Gravity: New Insights from Mirror Experiments

At this scale, new phenomena could arise. However, the Planck-scale is so remote from current experimental capabilities that tests of quantum gravity are…

Studies and Analyses

Ingesting Placenta: Can Afterbirth Offer Health Benefits?

A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta –…

Life & Chemistry

Magnetic Navigation: Pigeon Beak Cells Unraveled

However, research published today in Nature shows that this is not the case. The study shows that iron-rich cells in the pigeon beak are in fact specialised…

Life & Chemistry

Carnegie Mellon fluorescent biosensor reveals mechanism critical to immune system amplification

The immune cells, called dendritic cells, are harnessed by cancer vaccines and other therapeutics used to amplify the immune system. The finding, published…

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