Why does rubbing a balloon on your hair make it stick?
For centuries, scientists have tried to understand triboelectric charging, commonly known as static electricity.
General Physics
Aug 29, 2017
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Study: After Hurricane Katrina, personal debt fell for those worst hit—but at a cost
After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans a dozen years ago, there was a sharp and immediate drop in personal debt among residents living in city's most flooded blocks, according to a new Case Western Reserve University ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2017
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Multicolor MRIs could aid disease detection
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have developed a method that could make magnetic resonance imaging—MRI—multicolor. Current MRI techniques rely on a single contrast agent injected into ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 16, 2017
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MRI contrast agents accumulate in the brain
The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) has provided new guidance in the use of contrast agents during MRI scans. Emerging research suggests gadolinium-based contrast agents, injected in a patient's ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 7, 2017
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Studies help understand why some people are so sure they're right
Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western Reserve University may help explain the extreme perspectives, on religion, politics ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2017
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Single protein controls genetic network essential for sperm development
Scientists have found a single protein—Ptbp2—controls a network of over 200 genes central to how developing sperm move and communicate. The protein works by regulating how RNA is processed during each stage of sperm development.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 10, 2017
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Injectable plant-based nanoparticles delay tumor progression
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in collaboration with researchers from Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and RWTH Aachen University (Germany) have adapted virus particles—that normally ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 28, 2017
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Researchers find a chemical solution to shrink digital data storage
Chemists at Case Western Reserve University have found a way to possibly store digital data in half the space current systems require.
Materials Science
Jun 21, 2017
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Drug-delivery method holds promise for controlling crop parasites
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are applying drug-delivery technology to agriculture to control parasitic roundworms more effectively and safely.
Bio & Medicine
May 31, 2017
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Researchers discover three new species of extinct South American marsupials
The discovery of three extinct species and new insights to a fourth indicates a little-known family of marsupials, the Palaeothentidae, was diverse and existed over a wide range of South America as recent as 13 million years ...
Archaeology
Apr 11, 2017
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