Through much of recorded human history, people around the world have sought inorganic compounds that could be used to paint things blue, often with limited success. Most had environmental or durabilit...
Life Sciences |Polar 5 will be used in three research programmes in the season 2009/10 and it will logistically support the established Antarctic flight network DROMLAN (Dronning Maud Land Air Network) as well as va...
Earth Sciences |SMOS, ESA's water mission, is the first satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and monitor soil moisture on a global scale, thus contributing to better understanding of the Earth...
Physics and Astronomy |Now, for the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far mor...
Earth Sciences |In Russia there are five Laser Innovation Technological Centers (LITC), which are supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The idea behind the LITCs is based on a network of...
Machine Engineering |New census figures indicate that tiger populations in the Russian Far East, which in 2005 numbered nearly 500, have declined significantly due to poaching of tigers for their skins, bones and meat as ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The invention discloses a set of laticifer-specific promoters from Taraxacum koksaghyz (Russian Dandelion), which control rubber gene expression. These enabling tools will allow to 1) improve rubber ...
Technology Offerings |Coastal roads and harbours are traditionally protected from sea erosion by giant blocks of rock or geosynthetic bags filled with material, all locally sourced where possible. In the Arctic and other c...
Earth Sciences |“Now they bring water back on the space shuttle and analyze it on the ground. The problem is there is a big delay. You’d like to be able to maintain iodine or silver [disinfectant] levels in real time...
Life Sciences |The researchers from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, University of Adelaide in Australia and the National University of Singapore have called for the urgent preservation of existing bor...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |Scientists have joined forces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems. The two-year study, led by Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and Ray Hilborn of ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |The invention discloses a set of laticifer-specific promoters from Taraxacum koksaghyz (Russian Dandelion), which control rubber gene expression. These enabling tools will allow to 1) improve rubber q...
Technology Offerings |The funds will go towards financing German and European exports to Russia over the next two years. Under the agreement export financings to Russia that are backed by export credit insurance (Hermes co...
Business and Finance |The map comprises over a thousand individual images, recorded between May 2006 and December 2007. Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras cannot see the surface, but Venus Express used a pa...
Earth Sciences |According to the study, researchers will be able to accurately count and assess tiger populations by identifying individual animals from the unique DNA signature found in their dung. In the pa...
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