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MEDICINE & HEALTH

Scientists delineate pathway that helps us make antibodies

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA AT AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY

Parkinson’s treatment delivers a power-up to brain cell ‘batteries’

IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

More Medicine & Health

BIOLOGY

Could internet activity provide accurate in plant and animal conservation?

AMERICAN ASSOCIATES, BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV

Study reviews the potential impacts of future heat waves on humans and wildlife

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY

More Biology

TECH & ENGINEERING

Virtual time-lapse photos can capture ultrafast phenomena

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

Speedy ‘slingshot’ cell movement observed for the first time

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

More Tech & Engineering

SOCIAL & BEHAVIOR

Taking arts classes leads to better academic performance, Mason research shows

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

The nearer the friends, the stronger the regional identity

FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA

More Social & Behavior

CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS

UNH researchers create a hydrogel contact lens to treat serious eye disease

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

Tied in knots: New insights into plasma behavior focus on twists and turns

DOE/PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY

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ARCHAEOLOGY

From Stone Age chips to microchips: How tiny tools may have made us human

EMORY HEALTH SCIENCES

Teenage T. rex was already chomping on prey, new UW Oshkosh research shows

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH

More Archaeology

SPACE & PLANETARY

Asteroid Bennu, target of NASA’s sample return mission, is rotating faster over time

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION

At 3,836 mph, which way does the air flow?

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

More Space & Planetary

AGRICULTURE

Cardiorespiratory fitness of farmed Atlantic salmon unaffected by virus

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

What do gardens bring to urban ecosystems?

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRONOMY

More Agriculture

EARTH SCIENCE

Tropical Cyclone Idai seen in Mozambique channel by NASA’s Terra Satellite

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Scientists go to extremes to reveal make-up of Earth’s core

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

More Earth Science

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Climate Change: Heat-induced heart attack risk on the rise

HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MÜNCHEN – GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Coal power stations disrupt rainfall: global study

FLINDERS UNIVERSITY

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MATHEMATICS

Probability of catastrophic geomagnetic storm lower than estimated

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

More Mathematics

EDUCATION

Experiences of nature boost children’s learning

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Teachers ‘scarred’ by legacy of 1988 anti-LGBT+ law

ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

Immigration is beneficial to economies, even after 100 years

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS USA

How two or more trips to the bathroom at night cost the US economy $44.4 billion a year

RAND CORPORATION

More Business & Economics

POLICY & ETHICS

Autonomous vehicles could be an environmental boon or disaster, depending on public policy

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, ENGINEERING SCHOOL

How the global gag rule stifles free speech

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

More Policy & Ethics

SCIENCE BUSINESS NEWS

ASA, other leaders maintain USDA’s upheaval of research arm unwise, counterproductive

AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

Particulate matter pollutes the air above Africa

KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE (KIT)

More Science Business News

GRANTS

Kessler Foundation awarded federal grant to study wearable robotic in spinal cord injury

KESSLER FOUNDATION

LifeTime is delighted to receive EU funding

CENTER FOR GENOMIC REGULATION

More Grants

AWARDS

Renowned UMass Amherst researchers honored by Institute of Food Technologists

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST

Tokyo Tech professor Fujie selected as ‘Emerging Investigators 2019’ by Biomaterials Science

TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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BOOKS

Bentham Science publishes eighth volume in clinical drug research — Alzheimer disorders

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS

Extraordinary president, ordinary presidency

UNIVERSITY OF KENT

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