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Researchers find some forests crucial for climate change mitigation, biodiversity
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study by Oregon State University researchers has identified forests in the western...
Megadroughts fueled Peruvian cloud forest activity
Sediment samples show recovery from some ecosystem damage possibleCredit: Florida Tech MELBOURNE, FLA. -- New research led by scientists from...
New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications
Credit: Cell Stem Cell/the Park lab Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal...
New tool to assess digital addiction in children
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 9, 2019--A new study developed and validated a tool for...
Tackling air pollution: researchers present emissions inventory for Nepal
Credit: © Authors 2019. Data on emission amounts and sources have an important role to play in shaping policy on...
The Antarctic: study from Kiel provides data about the structure of the icy continent
European Space Agency publishes a 3D model of the AntarcticCredit: © Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions) The Antarctic is one...
Microplastic to be mapped in the North Atlantic Ocean
Credit: SDU Every day, thousands of tons of microplastic are washed from the EU coastline into the North Atlantic Ocean....
Regional trends in overdose deaths reveal multiple opioid epidemics, according to new study
Credit: David Peters AMES, Iowa - The United States is suffering from several different simultaneous opioid epidemics, rather than just...
What can we learn from bonobos and chimpanzees?
A personal account of bonobo and chimpanzee behaviour by a renowned Japanese primatologist explains what and why we should learn...
New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry
Discovery may inspire development of better industrial catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven...
Storing data in everyday objects
Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA....
City research draws on Formula 1 technology for the construction of skyscrapers
Civil engineering academic is developing new vibration-control devices based on Formula 1 technology for skyscrapersCredit: City, University of London City,...
Creating switchable plasmons in plastics
Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonicsCredit: Illustration: Conceptualized Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory...
NASA examines Tropical Cyclone Belna’s water vapor concentration
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean, water vapor data provided information about the...
Secret behind diabetes drug’s benefits revealed
Metformin shows benefits on aging and a number of diverse diseasesCredit: Photo courtesy McMaster University Hamilton, ON (December 9, 2019)...
Detours may make batteries better
Rice University scientists show point defects in cathode crystals may speed lithium absorptionCredit: Kaiqi Yang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 9,...
Scientists show thin metal mesh loaded with T cells shrinks solid tumors
Within weeks, CAR T cells targeting ovarian cancer cleared tumors in 70% of treated mice, shows study in Nature Biomedical...
Rice University launches bold climate change initiative with Shell
'Game-changing' idea: Don't burn hydrocarbons, split them into hydrogen energy and valuable carbon materialsCredit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON...
Increasing food intake by swapping mitochondrial genomes
Credit: Maria Litovchenko & Roel Bevers (EPFL) Many of the characteristics that make people so different from each other, are...
Medicaid expansion doubled access to primary care, increased attention to health risks
Less reliance on emergency care, more discussions about healthy behaviors and use of preventive care seen in survey of low-income...
