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Physics & Astronomy

Final Space Shuttle Launches 5 CU-Boulder Payloads

One experiment, sponsored by the global pharmaceutical companies Amgen and UCB, will test an antibody to sclerostin — a protein that has a negative effect on…

Information Technology

Wireless 'Breadcrumbs' That Won’t Become Toast When Baked…or Soggy When Hosed

Yet, despite the ubiquity of such devices, with few exceptions, today’s firefighters still rely on 20th-century radios, whose outdated analog signals have…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Makes One Millionth Science Observation

“For 21 years Hubble has been the premier space science observatory, astounding us with deeply beautiful imagery and enabling ground-breaking science across a…

Life & Chemistry

Ant Colonies: Unraveling Behavioral Variability in Innovation

They attack other colonies, plunder and rob, kill other colonies’ inhabitants or keep them as slaves: Ants are usually regarded as prototypes of social beings…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UW-Madison Scientists Played Role in Potato Genome Project

The consortium’s work, which is described in the current issue of Nature, turned up more than 39,000 genes and is expected to speed potato research and…

Health & Medicine

Bodyguard for the Brain: Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Insights

In experiments with mice, they switched off the cannabinoid-1 receptor. As a consequence, the animals showed signs of degeneration – as seen in people with…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Discoveries for Brain Diseases Explored in Podcast

Chronicled in a new episode in the American Chemical Society’s award-winning “Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions” podcast series, now online, it involved…

Health & Medicine

New Approach to Combat Antiviral Resistance in Influenza

UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.Using…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Dig Deep Into Wyoming Basin for Global Warming Clues

“And we don’t know where it came from,” says University of New Hampshire’s Will Clyde, associate professor of geology. “This is a big part of the carbon cycle…

Life & Chemistry

Hunting the unseen

A better knowledge about the composition of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons has sparked conjecture about, as yet, unseen particles. A tool…

Life & Chemistry

Ready, Go!

An assembly of transcription elongation factors known as Super Elongation Complex, or SEC for short, helps paused RNA polymerases to come online and start…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Makes Blood-Sucking Deadly for Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes die soon after a blood meal if certain protein components are experimentally disrupted, a team of biochemists at the University of Arizona has…

Life & Chemistry

One-Time Gene Therapy Shields Arteries From Atherosclerosis

A one-dose method for delivering gene therapy into an arterial wall effectively protects the artery from developing atherosclerosis despite ongoing high blood…

Physics & Astronomy

Exoplanet Aurora: Stunning Displays on Distant Hot Jupiters

Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thing. New research shows that aurorae on distant “hot Jupiters” could be 100-1000…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Discover How Some Breast Cancers Alter Their Sensitivity to Estrogen

Using human breast cancer cells and the protein that causes fireflies to glow, a Johns Hopkins team has shed light on why some breast cancer cells become…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Thermopower Efficiency Unveiled

Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have discovered a new relation among electric and magnetic fields and differences in temperature, which may lead…

Life & Chemistry

Using a 'systems biology' approach to look under the hood of an aggressive form of breast cancer

Using a “systems biology” approach – which focuses on understanding the complex relationships between biological systems – to look under the hood of an…

Earth Sciences

Geographic Analysis Reveals Insights Into Coral Disease Spread

Now a University of Florida geographer and his colleagues applied Geographic Information Systems, known as GIS — as well as software previously used to examine…

Health & Medicine

CSHL scientists reveal mechanism behind 'oncogene addiction' in acute leukemia

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has laid bare the mechanism behind a phenomenon called oncogene addiction in mice suffering from a…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Oxygen in Orion Star-Forming Region

The oxygen molecules have been found in the nearby Orion star-forming complex. While atomic oxygen has been long known in warm regions of space, previous…

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