University team beats out DOE lab in competition to build a rare-isotope facility
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Study blames mental stress, lack of exercise
Brain hormone helps trigger puberty
Amish provide clues to genetics of heart disease
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Biofuels, nuclear energy and coal are the worst choices for energy alternatives to petroleum products and wind, solar, geothermal, tides and waves are the best, according to results from the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy-related solutions that assesses not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also [...]
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Scientists have discovered that a certain type of collagen, collagen VI, protects brain cells against amyloid-beta proteins, which are widely thought to cause Alzheimer’s disease.
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A trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots are designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers. The autonomous robots are designed to climb scaffolding and buildings by wrapping around a poll or beam and then rolling upward via an oscillating joint motion.
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PD-1 is an immune system receptor that hampers the ability of anti-viral killer cells to fight against chronic viral infections, including HIV, HCV and TB. Using an antibody that blocks PD-1, researchers safely and significantly improved both killer T-cell and antibody immune responses against simian immunodeficiency virus in severely infected rhesus macaque monkeys, leading to [...]
For 50 years, theoretical chemists have puzzled over the problem of predicting many-electron chemistry with only two electrons, which many thought intractable and perhaps impossible to solve. One scientist will present a new approach to tuning his solution to the problem for exceptional computational accuracy and efficiency in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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Approximately 38 percent of adults in the United States aged 18 years and over and nearly 12 percent of U.S. children aged 17 years and under use some form of complementary and alternative medicine, according to a new nationwide government survey.