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Physics & Astronomy

Plans Shape Up for a Revolutionary New Observatory to Explore Black Holes and the Big Bang

A new era in astronomy will come a step closer when scientists from across Europe present their design study today for an advanced observatory capable of…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Memory: Insights from Eggs, Butter, and Milk

“Cognitive psychologists are trying to be like physicists and chemists, which means doing controlled laboratory experiments, getting numbers out of them and…

Life & Chemistry

Weill Cornell Drug Fights Aggressive Childhood Leukemia

In a significant breakthrough, investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of California, San Francisco, have been able to overcome…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Pick Top 10 New Species

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of taxonomists from around the world – scientists responsible…

Health & Medicine

Healthy Gut Flora: Lactobacillus Plantarum HEAL19 Fights Obesity

Daily intake of a lactic acid bacteria, which has been given the name Lactobacillus plantarum HEAL19, appears to be able to prevent obesity and reduce the…

Earth Sciences

West Coast Radar Network is World's Largest

The network has grown over the last decade from a few radars to what is now considered the largest network of its kind in the world consisting of 78 sites in…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Finds Blue Straggler Stars in Milky Way's Hub

The size and nature of the blue straggler population detected in the bulge will allow astronomers to better understand if the bulge is exclusively old stars,…

Information Technology

GPS Stations Uncover Hidden Nuclear Tests Through Ionosphere Insights

Even underground nuclear tests leave their mark on the part of the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere, the researchers discovered, when they examined GPS…

Environmental Conservation

World Cooperation in Antarctica: A Model for Climate Solutions

Since the end of the Second World War science has become an important tool of diplomacy, not only for issues involving environmental management, but for peace…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Ray Telescope Reveals Early Universe’s Hungry Black Holes

This discovery from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that very young black holes grew more aggressively than previously thought, in tandem with the…

Life & Chemistry

Exposing the potential of sugar chains for the diagnosis and treatment of disease

Author:Naoyuki Taniguchi Team Leader, Disease GlycomicsTeam Group Director, Systems Glycobiology Research GroupRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteProtruding from…

Life & Chemistry

New Genes Linked To Neurodegenerative Disorders Uncovered

The findings provide a “testable translational hypothesis” as to the development and progression of PSP and may also provide clues into other more common brain…

Information Technology

Einstein and Fourier Inspire Breakthrough in Computer Vision

The techniques, called heat mapping and heat distribution, apply mathematical methods to enable machines to perceive three-dimensional objects, said Karthik…

Health & Medicine

Parathyroid Glow Discovery Reduces Endocrine Surgery Risks

This unique fluorescent signature was discovered by a team of biomedical engineers and endocrine surgeons at Vanderbilt University, who have used it as the…

Life & Chemistry

Lithium profoundly prevents brain damage associated with Parkinson's disease

Lithium profoundly prevents the aggregation of toxic proteins and cell loss associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in a mouse model of the condition. Preclinical research is now underway at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging to determine correct dosages for a drug that continues to be the gold standard for the treatment of bipolar disorder. The Buck is currently working toward initiating a Phase IIa clinical studies of lithium in humans in conjunction with standard PD drug therapy. The research appears in the June 24 online edition of the Journal of Neuroscience Research….

Information Technology

LiquidText Software Supports Active Reading through Fingertip Manipulation of Text

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed software that facilitates an innovative approach to active reading. Taking advantage of…

Health & Medicine

Monkeys Reveal New Insights into MS-Like Disease

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a naturally occurring disease in monkeys that is very much like multiple sclerosis in humans…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Scientists Create Sensitive Skin for Enhanced Robot Navigation

This will not only help robots to better navigate in their environments, it will also enable robot self-perception for the first time. A single robotic arm has…

Studies and Analyses

Extended Sleep Boosts Performance in Collegiate Basketball Players

A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP shows that sleep extension is beneficial to athletic performance, reaction time, vigor, fatigue and mood in…

Life & Chemistry

Stopping malignancy in its tracks

An unusual chemical compound isolated from a mud-dwelling fungus found in a soil sample collected in Daejeon, South Korea, could lead to a new family of…

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