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Scientists unveil new strategies to balance farming and ecological protection in Northeast China
A new study published in Agricultural Ecology and Environment identifies the key conflicts between agricultural expansion and ecological protection in…
Researchers develop promising drug for aggressive breast cancer
A new molecule developed by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University offers a promising avenue to treat…
MIT study finds targets for a new tuberculosis vaccine
CAMBRIDGE, MA — A large-scale screen of tuberculosis proteins has revealed several possible antigens that could be developed…
Teaching robots to map large environments
Cambridge, MA – A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate…
MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene
Cambridge, Mass. — Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that “boards” a…
Study identifies 14 risk factors for long ICU stays in children after heart surgery
A recent study conducted at China’s National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases has identified 14 independent risk factors associated…
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IAEA helps European countries prepare for emerging cattle disease
Traditionally common to Africa and Asia, lumpy skin disease emerged in Turkey in 2013 and has since rapidly spread through south-eastern Europe. The disease has been detected to date in six European countries – Greece, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro – with new cases being reported weekly.
WARF, UW-Madison again rank in top 10 universities for U.S. patents
An annual report issued last month ranks the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private nonprofit foundation that manages intellectual property on behalf of the University of Wisconsin—Madison, as 7th…
The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles
In a paper published by the journal JHEP, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
Summer school shines
Young scientists from all over the world have gathered for their two-week summer school course at ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy.
