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Earth Sciences

New Discoveries Unravel Ocean Mysteries from Expedition

A University of Houston (UH) geoscientist and his colleagues are revealing new discoveries about the Earth’s development, following a major international…

Earth Sciences

Geoengineering and Climate Change: Understanding Key Risks

Using a simple physical approach, the study explains how the water cycle reacts to surface warming and that it responds differently to heating by sunlight or…

Earth Sciences

Mid-Latitude Westerlies Influence Glacier Changes in High Asia

Climatologists at TU Berlin discovered a previously unknown connection between glacier variability and temperate zones. In their new publication, Dr. Thomas…

Environmental Conservation

Global E-Waste Map: Insights on National Volumes and Flows

By 2017, all of the year’s end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord…

Life & Chemistry

How Sugar Molecules Impact Embryonic Development

Sugar molecules are crucial to cell adhesion, the specific interaction between cells, and hence to the development of the embryo. This is the conclusion…

Environmental Conservation

New discoveries show biological formation of oxygen in soils

Since then, no other large-scale biological formation of oxygen has been found, until now. New research results show that down in the dark depths of the soil,…

Studies and Analyses

Fast Eye Movements: Indicator of Impulsive Decision-Making

The findings, the researchers say, suggest that the weight people give to the passage of time may be a trait consistently used throughout their brains,…

Earth Sciences

Dust’s Impact on Climate: Unveiling Earth’s Hidden Changes

In spring 2010, the research icebreaker Polarstern returned from the South Pacific with a scientific treasure – ocean sediments from a previously almost…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Theory Promises More Efficient Solar Cells Development

A new theoretical model developed by professors at the University of Houston (UH) and Université de Montréal may hold the key to methods for developing better…

Medical Engineering

Virginia Tech Engineer Advances 5-D Imaging for Heart Health

These dangerous blockages that can lead to heart attacks and strokes are not easily diagnosed due to “the lack of noninvasive imaging techniques to accurately…

Awards Funding

BMBF Funds Research Group on Brain Doping at Mainz University

The transfer of knowledge on pharmacological neuroenhancement has become the focus of a new interdisciplinary research group at Johannes Gutenberg University…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Genes Shape Ant Caste Roles in Insect Societies

Novel or highly modified genes play a major role in the development of the different castes within ant colonies. Evolutionary biologists at Johannes Gutenberg…

Information Technology

Robots with Insect Brains: Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain

Autonomous robots that find their way through unfamiliar terrain? Not so distant future.Researchers at the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, the…

Event News

Building Resilience in Urban Development: From Concept to Action

In contrast to sustainability, the definition of resilience relates to the ability of ecosystems to absorb shocks and disruptions and to maintain central…

Studies and Analyses

Are you competent in competences?

What do companies associate with competence management? How do they think it can benefit them, and how can they make it efficient and effective?Fraunhofer IAO…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Aquatic Insects: Insights into Biodiversity Research

Still today, little is known on how this remarkable diversity arose. Scientists of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), the Naturalis…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linking Brain Structure to Intelligence Discovered

The study is published today in Molecular Psychiatry and may help scientists understand biological mechanisms behind some forms of intellectual impairment. The…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Fly Research Reveals Gene’s Role in Sperm Formation

Heidelberg researchers have been delving into the basic regulatory mechanisms of stem cell differentiation. Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Cholesterol Metabolism in Prostate Cancer

Findings also suggest that a class of drugs previously developed to treat atherosclerosis might be repurposed for treatment of advanced prostate cancer.

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Texas Tech Scientist Questions Beta Agonists in Beef Cattle

Use of certain animal drugs known as beta agonists in cattle production has received considerable national attention.

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