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Released: 12-Mar-2018 2:05 PM EDT
Two Behaviors Linked to High School Dropout Rates
University of Georgia

The factors that may lead to a student's decision to leave school are complex, but a new study from the University of Georgia sheds light on how two behaviors-aggression and weak study skills-contribute to the problem.

12-Mar-2018 1:00 PM EDT
Cardiopatías genéticas causan menos síndromes de muerte infantil súbita de lo que se pensaba, descubre estudio
Mayo Clinic

Las mutaciones genéticas vinculadas con la cardiopatía han sido consideradas como la causa principal del síndrome de muerte infantil súbita, pero un nuevo estudio de Mayo Clinic con investigadores británicos y daneses descubrió que son culpables de muchas menos de esas muertes de lo que se pensaba.

12-Mar-2018 2:00 PM EDT
Arrested Development: Hubble Finds Relic Galaxy Close to Home
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have identified a very rare and odd assemblage of stars that has remained essentially unchanged for the past 10 billion years. The diffuse stellar island, galaxy NGC 1277, provides valuable new insights into the origin and evolution of galaxies billions of years ago.

7-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EST
Genetic Heart Diseases Cause Fewer SIDS Deaths Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
Mayo Clinic

Genetic mutations linked to heart disease have been considered a leading cause of sudden infant death syndrome, but a new study by Mayo Clinic, British and Danish researchers finds they are to blame for far fewer SIDS deaths than previously thought. The findings are opening new lines of inquiry into possible causes of the syndrome and may help prevent unnecessary genetic testing of surviving family members. The study results appear in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 1:05 PM EDT
Drifting and Bouncing Particles Can Help Maintain Stability in High-Performance Fusion Plasmas
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Physicists at PPPL have recently found that drifting particles in plasma can forestall instabilities that reduce the pressure crucial to high-performance fusion reactions inside these facilities.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 12:30 PM EDT
A Game Changer: Metagenomic Clustering Powered by HPC
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab and Joint Genome Institute researchers took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology—Markov Clustering algorithm—and modified it to run efficiently and at scale on supercomputers. Their algorithm achieved a previously impossible feat: clustering a 70 million node and 68 billion edge biological network in hours.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EDT
SLU Researchers Discover Structure of Protein Associated with Inflammation, Parkinson’s Disease
Saint Louis University Medical Center

The recent finding opens the door to developing new treatments for a wide range of illnesses, from heart disease, diabetes and cancer to neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Pitt, UPMC Researchers Identify Key Viral Replication Step
Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh

Pitt and UPMC researchers showed how a common virus hijacks a host cell’s protein to assemble new viruses.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EDT
Water Troughs Are Key to E. Coli Contamination in Cattle
Cornell University

A major study led by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine researchers reveals for the first time that water troughs on farms are a conduit for the spread of toxic E. coli in cattle, which can then spread the pathogen to people through bacteria in feces.

2-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EST
Parenting Stress Associated with Epigenetic Differences in African American Mothers
New York University

Parenting can be stressful - and this stress may be influencing the DNA methylation of African American mothers, finds a new study led by NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

11-Mar-2018 12:00 PM EDT
Riding the (Quantum Magnetic) Wave
University of Utah

Working together, Miller, Boehme, Vardeny and their colleagues have shown that an organic-based magnet can carry waves of quantum mechanical magnetization, called magnons, and convert those waves to electrical signals. It’s a breakthrough for the field of magnonics (electronic systems that use magnons instead of electrons) because magnons had previously been sent through inorganic materials that are more difficult to handle.

12-Mar-2018 12:00 PM EDT
Method to Grow Large Single-Crystal Graphene Could Advance Scalable 2D Materials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A new method to produce large, monolayer single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long relies on harnessing a “survival of the fittest” competition among crystals. The novel technique, developed by a team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, may open new opportunities for growing the high-quality two-dimensional materials necessary for long-awaited practical applications.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Do Your Share: Perception of Fair Division of Housework Linked to Better Sex Among Married Individuals in Midlife
Florida State University

Husbands, are you helping your spouse with chores around the house? If your wife doesn’t think so that may result in a less satisfying sex life, according to new research by Florida State University. FSU Sociology Professor Anne Barrett and her former student Alexandra Raphael found that when wives reported an unfair arrangement in the amount of housework they were doing, they were also significantly more likely to report lower sexual satisfaction.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Patients Living Longer with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Pose New Challenge for Caregivers
Case Western Reserve University

Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy—one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects males—live into their 30s and beyond, raising challenges in such areas as education, vocation, levels of independence, personal relationships, emotional health, and intimacy. To address these shifting circumstances, as well as reflect promising new treatment options, new guidelines aimed at physicians who care for DMD patients have recently been issued.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Painting a Clear Picture of How Nitrogen Oxides Are Formed
Argonne National Laboratory

For decades, combustion researchers and engine companies have been seeking to understand how these gases are produced during combustion so that they can find ways to reduce them. Now Argonne researchers have synthesized more than a decade’s worth of combustion studies to create a new overarching model of how nitrogen oxides are produced.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Mexico Well Ahead of U.S. in LGBT Rights
University of Vermont

Caroline Beer has spent her career researching comparative data between Latin American countries and the United States that often debunks false stereotypes. Her latest study showing Mexico as more progressive than the U.S. when it comes to LGBT rights, especially in the recognition of same-sex relationships, is no exception.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Why Did Donald Trump Win? New Study Suggests Voter Values Are Key
Texas Tech University

A Texas Tech University psychologist says Trump’s ideals counted more than his party affiliation for those who supported him.

8-Mar-2018 8:15 AM EST
Stress of Open-Heart Surgery Significantly Reduces Patients’ Vitamin D Levels, But Supplementation Before and After Surgery Helps
Intermountain Medical Center

The stress of open-heart surgery significantly reduces patients’ vitamin D levels, but aggressive supplementation with vitamin D3, just before and after surgery, can completely eliminate the observed drop in vitamin D, researchers have found.

7-Mar-2018 7:00 AM EST
Testing for Calcium in the Coronary Arteries Provides Better Way to Predict Heart Attack Events than Stress Testing Alone
Intermountain Medical Center

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have found that incorporating underused, but available, imaging technologies, such as PET/CT scans, more precisely predicts who’s at risk for heart attacks and similar threats — in time to prevent them.

5-Mar-2018 7:00 AM EST
Testing for Calcium in the Coronary Arteries Provides a Better Way to Predict Heart Attack Events than Stress Testing Alone
Intermountain Medical Center

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City have found that incorporating underused, but available, imaging technologies more precisely predicts who’s at risk for heart attacks and similar threats — in time to prevent them.



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