A multidisciplinary team of University of Utah Health scientists has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how variations in pollutant-sensing genes in the lungs could influence air pollution’s effects on children who have asthma.
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Visualizing Chemical Reactions
Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas from CO2 and H2 for the first time.
Plant Life Expanding in the Everest Region
Plant life is expanding in the area around Mount Everest, and across the Himalayan region, new research shows.
10 New Bird Taxa Discovered in Islands of Wallacea
Birds are the best known class of animals, and since 1999, only five or six new species have been described each year on average.