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Released: 14-Dec-2016 1:05 PM EST
Smart Pitching: UAB Engineer Investigates Dead Arms and the Rise of the Teenage Tommy John Surgery
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Glenn Fleisig compiles biomechanical analysis from thousands of baseball players to find out what's behind the epidemic.

Released: 14-Dec-2016 12:05 PM EST
Rain Out, Research In
American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

In a new study, researchers describe a fully-automated, portable, and energy-independent rainout shelter. This new design will allow researchers to more effectively field test crop varieties for their tolerances to water stress.

Released: 14-Dec-2016 11:05 AM EST
Penn State Receives Funding to Demonstrate Low-Carbon Footprint Path
Penn State College of Engineering

Penn State University, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and other technology providers and with funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), is demonstrating a cost-effective technology path to increase the use of renewable-energy power generation in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Marcellus shale gas will be used to fuel a gas-fired turbine power generator in combination with solar cell and battery energy storage systems.

Released: 14-Dec-2016 11:05 AM EST
Researchers Create New Way to Trap Dangerous Gases
University of Texas at Dallas

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has developed a novel method for trapping potentially harmful gases within microscopic organo-metallic structures. These metal organic frameworks, or MOFs, are made of different building blocks composed of metal ion centers and organic linker molecules. Together they form a honeycomb-like structure that can trap gases within each comb, or pore.

Released: 14-Dec-2016 10:00 AM EST
Researchers Studying Neurodegenerative Diseases, Painkillers, Animal Testing Alternatives, and More Recognized with 2017 SOT Awards
Society of Toxicology

The 2017 SOT Awards recipients have studied the role of pesticide exposure on neurodegenerative diseases, connections between chemicals and the susceptibility to allergies and asthma, risk assessment, alternative test methods and strategies, and more, in their efforts to improve public, animal and environmental health.

   
Released: 14-Dec-2016 8:05 AM EST
Celebrity Chefs Have Poor Food Safety Practices
Kansas State University

Celebrity chefs are cooking up poor food safety habits, according to a Kansas State University study. Kansas State University food safety experts Edgar Chambers IV and Curtis Maughan, along with Tennessee State University's Sandria Godwin, recently published "Food safety behaviors observed in celebrity chefs across a variety of programs" in the Journal of Public Health.

   
14-Dec-2016 7:00 AM EST
International Collaboration Receives Grant to Advance Improvements in Cassava Harvests and Nutrition for Smallholder Families in Sub-Saharan Africa
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Scientists under VIRCA Plus are developing improved cassava varieties to enhance the livelihoods and health status of African farm families.

Released: 14-Dec-2016 5:00 AM EST
University of Minnesota Research Shows That People Can Control a Robotic Arm with Only Their Minds
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have made a major breakthrough that allows people to control a robotic arm using only their minds. The research has the potential to help millions of people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 10:05 PM EST
Improving Catalysis Science with Synchrotrons
Department of Energy, Office of Science

the global economy and have been the subject of research for decades. Despite their unique advantages, x-ray synchrotron spectroscopy techniques were not widely employed by those delving into the intricacies The Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium was established to address this situation by providing scientists a means to study catalysts at work under realistic conditions and developing new techniques to characterize catalysts.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 9:05 PM EST
Rutgers Faculty Member Honored by National Academy of Inventors
Rutgers University's Office for Research

Richard Riman, distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at Rutgers, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He holds more than 10 U.S. patents and patents pending for the “low-temperature solidification” process he invented.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Water: Finding the Normal Within the Weird
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

RICHLAND, Wash. – Water has many unusual properties, such as its solid form, ice, being able to float in liquid water, and they get weirder below its freezing point. Supercooled water — below freezing but still a liquid — is notoriously difficult to study. Some researchers thought supercooled water behaved oddly within a particularly cold range, snapping from a liquid into a solid, instantaneously crystallizing at a particular temperature like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Turfgrass Research Focuses on Irrigation Efficiency, Drought Tolerance
New Mexico State University (NMSU)

Subsurface drip irrigation is the newest method in turfgrass efficiency. Two projects will test these research findings: A subsurface drip irrigation system in several tee boxes at a golf course, and a city park, where a subsurface drip irrigation system has been installed on half of the park.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
First Detection of Boron on the Surface of Mars
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Boron has been identified for the first time on the surface of Mars, indicating the potential for long-term habitable groundwater in the ancient past.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 3:05 PM EST
Scientists Examine ‘Perfect Storms’ Fueling Vast Tropical Biodiversity
University of Chicago

Biodiversity on earth is greatest in the tropics with the number and variety of species gradually diminishing toward the poles. Understanding exactly what shapes this pattern, known as the latitudinal diversity gradient, is not just key to knowing the nature of life on Earth, but it also could help scientists slow biodiversity loss and protect areas of the globe that generate a disproportionate variety of species.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
Studies of Vulnerable Populations Get a 'Bootstrapped' Boost From Statisticians
University of Washington

In a paper published online Dec. 7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Washington researchers report on a statistical approach called "tree bootstrapping" can help social scientists study hard-to-reach populations like drug users.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
Breakup of Supercontinent Pangea Cooled Mantle and Thinned Crust
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)

The oceanic crust produced by the Earth today is significantly thinner than crust made 170 million years ago during the time of the supercontinent Pangea, according to University of Texas at Austin researchers.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 2:05 PM EST
WCS Campaign To Stop Nigeria’s Superhighway Delivers More Than 100,000 Petition Signatures To Nigerian Ambassador
Wildlife Conservation Society

A global campaign recently launched by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) to stop or reroute a proposed superhighway in Nigeria’s Cross River State has succeeded in securing 100,081 petition signatures in support of the effort.

Released: 13-Dec-2016 12:05 PM EST
‘Western’ Maternal Diet Appears to Raise Obesity Risk in Offspring
Scripps Research Institute

Diet composition around the time of pregnancy may influence whether offspring become obese, according to a new study using animal models at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

   


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