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  • What Makes Women Obese or Anorexic
    In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology, experts at the University of Colorado in Denver reveal that certain changes in a series of neural pathways can mean the difference between obesity and anorexia in women. Experts with the UCD School of Medicine discovered that areas of the brain involv...

  • Plants Cool Their Leaves by Elongating Their Stems
    Plants that grow in hot environments display a very interesting adaptation to their surroundings. Over millions of years of evolution they have learned to elongate their stems in order to cool down their leaves, ensuring that nutrients continue to flow at optimal levels. The discovery was made by researchers at the University of Br...

  • Protein-Stabilizing Polymers Developed at UCLA
    During transport and storage, proteins are very prone to suffering degradation, or losing their active properties. Excipients such as polyethylene glycol are used to stabilize them, but experts now announce the development of special polymers that could do this more effectively. The materials are capable of stabilizing proteins for lon...

  • New Technique to Measure Pipeline Corrosion
    Scientists at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the creation of a new method of measuring and monitoring pipeline corrosion. This ability will be essential for avoiding disasters similar to the 2010 PG&E explosion. At that time, people living in the Bay Area community of San Bruno reported smelling ...

  • Addressing Sleep Apnea Improves Attention in Children
    Scientists have determined in a new study that children suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to display impaired attention and verbal memory than their peers. Treating apnea was proven to play a direct role in reducing these symptoms. In fact, treating OSA results in significant improvements in both verb...

  • SpaceX Launches Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS
    Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has made history earlier today, when it launched the first privately built spacecraft to the International Space Station. The unmanned cargo ship lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), aboard a Falcon...

  • Deciphering the Mechanical Properties of Stem Cells
    Scientists at the Brown University, in the United States, say that they have recently made a significant discovery related to the mechanical properties of stem cells. After carefully analyzing these properties, the group found that the data could be used to predict the type of cell stem cells would differentiate into. Mesenchymal ...

  • Seagrasses Are Better at Carbon Storage Than Forests
    According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation published in this week's issue of the top journal Nature Geoscience, it would appear that seagrass meadows at the bottom of the sea can store up to twice as much carbon dioxide as the world's tropical and temperature forests (per unit area). In a paper entitled &ldquo...

  • MAVEN Magnetometers Completed at GSFC
    Officials at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), in Greenbelt, Maryland, announce the completion of two magnetometers that will go on the American space agency's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. The purpose of the two flux gate magnetometers will be to measure the intensity of the magnetic field wherever the ...

  • Cassini Sees Saturnine Moon Methone
    The NASA Cassini spacecraft has recently carried out a flyby of the small Saturnine moon Methone, as it was positioning itself for its last pass over the large moon Titan. The orbiter is currently getting ready to shift from an equatorial to a polar orbit, which will enable it to observe Saturn's poles in detail. This change implies that the veh...

  • Europeans Set New Teleportation Record
    Chinese experts were able a few weeks back to set a new world record for the distance over which teleportation is possible. The Asian group announced that it managed to teleport data over a little less than 100 kilometers (60 miles), but now European researchers set a new record. A group of physicists was able to transfer the information stor...

  • New Type of Resistive RAM Developed in the UK
    Researchers at the University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom, announce the development of a Resistive RAM memory (ReRAM) chip made up entirely of pure silicon oxide. This achievement opens up a new avenue of research for creating super-fast computer memory chips, which would operate considerably faster than anything on the...

  • Graphene to Replace Hexavalent Chromium as Steel Coating
    Rust is the worst enemy of many iron- and steel-based products, so coatings need to be used in order to protect them from corrosion. This is usually done with compounds containing a carcinogenic element called hexavalent chromium, but graphene may provide a safer, more efficient solution. Hexavalent chromium is a known carcin...

  • Saturated Fats Intake Leads to Cognitive Decline
    According to the conclusions of a new study, it would appear that consuming a lot of saturated fats – such as found in fatty meats, lard, butter, cheese, cream, coconut oil and palm kernel oil, among other sources – leads to cognitive decline and memory impairment in humans. Investigators at the Brigham and Women’s...

  • Massive Turtle Species Discovered in Colombia
    Experts from the University of Florida (UF) Florida Museum of Natural History (FMNH) announce the discovery of a giant turtle species that was previously unknown to science. The creature was discovered in the same mine that revealed the famous Titanoboa. The latter was the world's largest known snake, reaching lengths of between 12 to ...

  • Advanced Ceramic Membrane for Carbon Capture Created
    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) have been under research for years, but their high costs have thus far prevented their widespread implementation. Now, a system created by experts in the US could make it easier for fossil fuel-powered electrical plants to reduce their emissions. Greenhouse gases have been demonstrated to cause gl...

  • Mercury Pollution Found in the Arctic
    The Arctic Ocean and surrounding areas are polluted with mercury from a number of sources, scientists at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) found in a new study. The dangerous chemical is brought to the area by atmospheric forces such as winds, as well as by intricate river flow patterns in the Arctic regio...

  • How Chemotherapy Boosts Bone Cancer Growth
    A team of experts at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry has recently discovered that administering chemotherapy drugs to people in the earliest stages of bone marrow cancer can actually have a very negative effect on their health. According to SD Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine professor, Laurie McCauley, a drug u...

  • Life Recovering 30 Years After Mount St. Helens Eruption
    Using data from the Landsat satellite constellation, experts at the American space agency have recently created a new time-lapse video of Mount St. Helens and the surrounding areas, showing how life recovered following the volcano's massive, May 18, 1980 eruption. The event saw the entire northern face of the mountain being d...

  • A Quick Look at the NASA FINESSE Spacecraft
    Mark Swaim, an expert at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, is the principal investigator of the newly proposed Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE) spacecraft. The satellite's mission will be to analyze exoplanetary atmospheres. This is the first mission ever proposed for this sp...

  • KSC Ready to Assemble the First Orion MPCV
    The Operations and Checkout (O&C) building at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, is now ready to support the assembly of the first Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). The capsule is scheduled to carry out its maiden flight in about two years. Orion will be capable of exploring deeper into space than the Apollo-era capsu...

  • Thunderstorm Clouds, Pollution Boost Atmospheric Warming
    For some time, climatologists have counted clouds as part of the natural phenomena and processes that contribute to cooling the planet. Now, a computational study demonstrates that summer thunderstorm clouds actually contribute to warming the atmosphere, especially in polluted environments. In a paper published in the May 10 ...

  • How Living Cells Control Their Growth Process
    Scientists involved in studies of how living cells grow observed a long time ago that cells are able to figure out when and where to develop. Determining how this is possible has been a long-standing goal, but researches have thus far yielded few results. A new study finally makes some headway. Working together with biologists at the U...

  • Teens Just As Affected by Mania As Adults
    Experts from the National Institute of Mental Health, a part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), discovered in a new investigation that mania is just as present in teens as it is in adults. Previously, experts thought that a discrepancy existed between the two age groups. The reality is harsher than that. The work suggests that ...

  • Asteroids Shaped Both Earth and the Moon
    Scientists have determined that most of the space impactors that struck Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus, during a time in our solar system's history known as the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB), were asteroids. The LHB was a tumultuous period that followed shortly after the emerging solar system's main period of accretion. It was char...

  • SpaceX Ready for Historic Launch Tomorrow
    On Saturday, May 19, a single, private spaceflight company may determine the future of this emerging industry. If the corporation succeeds, then the way will be paved for other, similar entities to send cargo to the International Space Station under NASA contracts. Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is currentl...

  • Goal Planning May Actually Be Harmful to Your Success
    A collaboration of scientists from China and the United States determined in a new study that people who plan for their goals excessively are more likely to fail in achieving them than those who only work towards their planned ends, without obsessing about them. In other words, planning the exact route to take in achieving your ...

  • Exoplanet Is Being Vaporized by Its Parent Star
    Using funds from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, investigators have recently detected an extrasolar planet that appears to be evaporating under the intense heat of its parent star. The work was carried out by experts at the Cambridge-based Massachus...

  • Rare Genetic Variations Are Not That Rare After All
    University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) investigators have recently finished conducting a large-scale genetic survey of the population. Their work led to several interesting conclusions, including the fact that thought-to-be-rare genetic variations are not that uncommon after all. Details of their study appear in the May 1...

  • Analyzing One of the Longest Chains of Life
    A group of investigators at the Stanford University says that it has recently discovered the longest land-sea ecological chain in the world. Often invisible, these chains connect habitats and species around the world, and many of them are currently threatened with extinction. Perhaps the most obvious trait of these chains is their intric...


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