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When the volcano Toba erupted on Sumatra 73,000 years ago, the blast was so powerful that a curtain of ash blocked solar radiation for six years and plunged the world into an 1,800-year ice age that saw temperatures plummet as much as 28 degrees Fahrenheit.

Letter Nature advance online publication 25 November 2009 doi :10.1038/nature08620 ; Received 28 August 2009; Accepted 29 October 2009; Published online 25 November 2009 Rational design of a structural and functional nitric oxide reductase Department of Chemistry, George L. Clark X-Ray Facility and 3M Materials Laboratory, Department of ...

As the recession has filled jobless centers, the call has grown louder for renewable energy, environmentally gentle products and eco-friendly practices -- and for people to make all of that happen.

November 23, 2009 edition The holidays are coming. You've decided to buck the economy and head over the river and through the clouds to Grandmother's house.

A new statistical technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors.

Thomas Jostlein's visit to North Korea was like a trip down the geopolitical rabbit hole.

From the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

More than 1,100 graduate student employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won protection of their tuition waivers and other key improvements in a tentative deal reached with the university last night following a two-day strike.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 Julien Bell: Grad employees' strike victory at University of Illinois Grad employees' strike victory at U of I by Julien Ball Socialist Worker WITH THE chant "The workers united will never be defeated," some 500 jubilant members and supporters of Graduate Employees Organization , AFT/IFT Local 6300, held a rally November ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign will soon be studying water quality effects of injecting carbon dioxide into deep aquifers.

CSF concentrations of brain tryptophan and kynurenines during immune stimulation with IFN- : relationship to CNS immune responses and depression 1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA 2Integrative Immunology and Behavior Program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, ...

Many classrooms at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are sitting empty today as a result of a strike by graduate students who teach or do research.

Psychology professor Art Kramer and his colleagues found that young and old pedestrians are impaired when talking on hands-free cell phones.

The members of a union representing graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced Sunday that contract negotiations with the university have stalled and they plan to go forward with a planned strike Monday at 8 a.m. The sticking point, according to a statement released to the press, was whether or not the school ...

Graduate students who teach and do research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plan to go on strike early Monday.

Andrew Bird is keeping busy, or so reports the BBC 6. All whilst on a lengthy tour, Bird is finding time to score a film, create an art installation, and cover Kermit the Frog's "It's Not Easy Being Green." The film in question is titled Norman.

Because death is the guaranteed physical end for each one of us, it is not something we obsess about in any noticeable way, certainly not collectively.

November 12, 2009 - The Design Automation Conference , the premier conference devoted to electronic design and design automation , has named the members of the 47th DAC Executive Committee .

Phillip A. Sharp, a world leader of research in molecular biology and biochemistry and an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Herbert Tabor/ Journal of Biological Chemistry Lectureship.

A number of researchers have deployed silver nanoparticles through a number of techniques on various substrates including carbon, zeolites and polymers for water disinfection applications.