http://www.innovations-report.com The Forum for Innovations, Science, Research, Industry and Business en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/future_reefs_belong_pulsating_soft_corals_214401.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] The feathery polyp tentacles of the xeniid soft corals open and shut like birds' wings. These soft corals make pulsating movements – a rarity among sessile sea organisms. For a long time it was not kn... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/future_reefs_belong_pulsating_soft_corals_214401.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/drought_makes_borneo_s_trees_flower_time_214392.html [Life Sciences] Evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich have identified two genes that indicate when the plants are about to flower. By monitoring these genes specifically, scientists are better able to... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/drought_makes_borneo_s_trees_flower_time_214392.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/conservationists_release_manual_protecting_great_214389.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] While most conservation efforts are focused on protecting great apes and other species in Central Africa's protected areas, a significant area of the region's rainforest used by gorillas and... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/conservationists_release_manual_protecting_great_214389.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/satellites_storm_system_created_moore_okla_tornado_214386.html [Earth Sciences] The tornado that struck Moore on the afternoon of Monday, May 20, was an F-4 tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale, according to the National Weather Service. F-4 tornadoes have sustained winds from 16... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/satellites_storm_system_created_moore_okla_tornado_214386.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/researchers_find_genetic_tie_improved_survival_time_214384.html [Life Sciences] The study found that a particular genetic variation helps predict survival in some cases of pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic progressive disease with a median survival of three years. As a result of the ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/researchers_find_genetic_tie_improved_survival_time_214384.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/changing_cancer_039_s_environment_halt_spread_214385.html [Health and Medicine] By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/changing_cancer_039_s_environment_halt_spread_214385.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/a_pan_european_study_signs_motor_disorders_years_214380.html [Studies and Analyses] For the first time, an international group of researchers led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Bonn University Hospital has proven the existence of such signatures fo... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/a_pan_european_study_signs_motor_disorders_years_214380.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/unique_method_creates_correct_mirror_image_molecule_214375.html [Life Sciences] In pharmaceuticals, it is important that the correct form of the molecule is used. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have been able to produce the one mirror image by using crystals with spe... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/unique_method_creates_correct_mirror_image_molecule_214375.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/biomarkers_discovered_inflammatory_bowel_disease_214373.html [Life Sciences] This finding, the first of its kind and led by UC's Bruce Yacyshyn, MD, is being presented via podium presentation by staff from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Digestive Disease Week ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/biomarkers_discovered_inflammatory_bowel_disease_214373.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/biodegradable_stent_proves_inferior_drug_eluting_214371.html [Health and Medicine] The Orsiro stent, which is a novel stent platform eluting sirolimus from a biodegradable polymer, demonstrated non-inferiority to the Xience Prime everolimus-eluting stent for the primary angiographic... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/biodegradable_stent_proves_inferior_drug_eluting_214371.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/study_reveals_fishing_gear_slow_death_whales_214372.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] The scientists in this entanglement response suction-cupped a cellphone-size device called a Dtag to a two-year-old female North Atlantic right whale called Eg 3911. The Dtag, developed at Woods Hole ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/study_reveals_fishing_gear_slow_death_whales_214372.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/study_links_chemicals_widely_found_plastics_214370.html [Health and Medicine] Plastic additives known as phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) are odorless, colorless and just about everywhere: They turn up in flooring, plastic cups, beach balls, plastic wrap, intravenous tubing an... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/study_links_chemicals_widely_found_plastics_214370.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/amazon_river_exhales_virtually_carbon_rain_forest_214363.html [Earth Sciences] Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exh... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/amazon_river_exhales_virtually_carbon_rain_forest_214363.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/blowing_wind_compressing_air_renewable_energy_214361.html [Power and Electrical Engineering] Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration identified two unique methods for this energy storage approach and two eastern Washi... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/blowing_wind_compressing_air_renewable_energy_214361.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/world_space_stethoscope_valuable_earth_214362.html [Physics and Astronomy] Space is serene, because no air means no sound. But inside the average spacecraft, with its whirring fans, humming computers and buzzing instruments, is about as raucous as a party filled with laughin... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/world_space_stethoscope_valuable_earth_214362.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/soft_matter_offers_ways_study_materials_arrange_214364.html [Materials Sciences] The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a millimeter in overall size, the droplets ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/soft_matter_offers_ways_study_materials_arrange_214364.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/trade_fair_news/functional_films_displays_future_214320.html [Trade Fair News] Displays that are flexible and paper thin at the same time?! What might still seem like science fiction will be a major topic at the SID Display Week 2013 that currently takes place in Vancouver in Ca... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/trade_fair_news/functional_films_displays_future_214320.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/successful_results_developing_oral_vaccin_diarrhea_214343.html [Health and Medicine] Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) bacteria are the primary cause of diarrhea in children living in low and middle income countries result in 400 million diarrheal episodes and approximately 300 ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/successful_results_developing_oral_vaccin_diarrhea_214343.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/research_improves_dry_lubricant_machinery_biomedical_214307.html [Materials Sciences] Nearly everyone is familiar with the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), otherwise known as Teflon, the brand name used by the chemical company DuPont. Famous for being “non-sticky” and water repellent, P... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/research_improves_dry_lubricant_machinery_biomedical_214307.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/14_closely_related_crocodiles_existed_5_million_214336.html [Life Sciences] Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have found evidence of an abundance of closely related crocodiles that remains unparalleled to this day. As they were highly specialized, the crocodiles o... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/14_closely_related_crocodiles_existed_5_million_214336.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/statistics/institutions_higher_education_spent_euro_44_billion_214342.html [Statistics] As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was 6.1% more than in 2010 (Euro 41.2 billion).The rise in expenditure is due to a large number of factors, for instance the grea... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/statistics/institutions_higher_education_spent_euro_44_billion_214342.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/theory_genesis_osteoarthritis_successful_therapy_214315.html [Life Sciences] Scientists at Johns Hopkins have turned their view of osteoarthritis (OA) inside out. Literally. Instead of seeing the painful degenerative disease as a problem primarily of the cartilage that cushion... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/theory_genesis_osteoarthritis_successful_therapy_214315.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/invasive_species_quot_field_advantage_quot_weaker_214316.html [Studies and Analyses] The away-field advantage hypothesis hinges on this idea: Successful invaders do better in a new place because the environment is more hospitable to them. They escape their natural enemies, use novel w... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/invasive_species_quot_field_advantage_quot_weaker_214316.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/dna_guided_assembly_yields_ribbon_nanostructures_214309.html [Materials Sciences] Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA "linker" strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneou... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/dna_guided_assembly_yields_ribbon_nanostructures_214309.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/coral_reef_fishes_prove_invaluable_study_214310.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] After reviewing recent research based on the study of habitat-specialist coral reef fishes, Boston University post-doctoral researcher Marian Y. L. Wong and Peter M. Buston, assistant professor of bio... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/coral_reef_fishes_prove_invaluable_study_214310.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/device_antimicrobial_door_opening_214331.html [Technology Offerings] The present invention relates to a device for antimicrobial operation of doors or switches which consists of a bent, hooked piece at the distal end. It serves as device to reduce the microbial spreadi... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/device_antimicrobial_door_opening_214331.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/metallic_alloy_components_high_stress_temperature_214330.html [Technology Offerings] The innovative idea is to add a tiny amount of B (and Zr) in ppm levels (200 - 2000 ppm by weight) for strengthening the grain boundaries in Co-Re alloys and mitigating the environmental embrittleness... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/metallic_alloy_components_high_stress_temperature_214330.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/low_energy_disintegration_organic_materials_high_214329.html [Technology Offerings] A key issue for the utilization of organic materials is their disintegration and the associated release of valuable contents. Hence, an energy efficient direct pulping of the surface and cells of orga... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/technology_offerings/low_energy_disintegration_organic_materials_high_214329.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/graphene_study_confirms_40_year_physics_prediction_214308.html [Studies and Analyses] Graphene Study Confirms 40-Year-Old Physics Prediction A team of researchers from Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Tohoku Universi... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/graphene_study_confirms_40_year_physics_prediction_214308.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/early_earth_iron_helped_rna_catalyze_electron_214314.html [Life Sciences] The study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth. Because electron transfer, the moving of an electron from one chemical species... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/early_earth_iron_helped_rna_catalyze_electron_214314.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/era_fisheries_policy_needed_secure_nutrition_214305.html [Studies and Analyses] Securing the critical contribution of wild fish stocks to food and nutrition security in the developing world depends on better governance and management of the fisheries sector. Fish is a key... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/era_fisheries_policy_needed_secure_nutrition_214305.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/low_grade_cotton_offers_ecologically_friendly_clean_214311.html [Materials Sciences] Seshadri Ramkumar, lead author of the study and manager of the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), said he and his colleagues found ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/low_grade_cotton_offers_ecologically_friendly_clean_214311.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/storms_uranus_neptune_confined_upper_atmosphere_214303.html [Physics and Astronomy] Similar to the giant gas planets Jupiter and Saturn, their smaller cousins, Uranus and Neptune, have long been known to harbor swirling clouds and violent winds churning up their atmospheres. Massive ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/storms_uranus_neptune_confined_upper_atmosphere_214303.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/cracking_ice_code_214317.html [Earth Sciences] John Isbell is on a quest to coax that information from the geology of the southernmost portions of the Earth. It won't be easy, because the last transition from “icehouse to greenhouse” occurred betw... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/cracking_ice_code_214317.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/answers_sleep_disorder_paradigm_treatment_mechanism_214304.html [Health and Medicine] ATAXIN-2 is a protein encoded by the ATXN2 gene conserved among different animal species. Mutations in human ATAXIN-2 gene have been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as spinocerebellar at... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/answers_sleep_disorder_paradigm_treatment_mechanism_214304.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/ant_study_future_robot_teams_work_underground_214306.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] By studying fire ants in the laboratory using video tracking equipment and X-ray computed tomography, researchers have uncovered fundamental principles of locomotion that robot teams could one day use... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/ant_study_future_robot_teams_work_underground_214306.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/resistance_line_antibiotic_makes_bacteria_resistant_214300.html [Life Sciences] Cross-resistance to colistin and host antimicrobials LL-37 and lysozyme, which help defend the body against bacterial attack, could mean that patients with life-threatening multi-drug resistant infect... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/resistance_line_antibiotic_makes_bacteria_resistant_214300.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/039_whodunnit_039_irish_potato_famine_solved_214299.html [Life Sciences] It is the first time scientists have decoded the genome of a plant pathogen and its plant host from dried herbarium samples. This opens up a new area of research to understand how pathogens evolve and... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/039_whodunnit_039_irish_potato_famine_solved_214299.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/early_life_traffic_related_air_pollution_exposure_214293.html [Studies and Analyses] The research is detailed in a study being published Tuesday, May 21, in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Heal... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/early_life_traffic_related_air_pollution_exposure_214293.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/child_maltreatment_increases_risk_adult_obesity_214292.html [Health and Medicine] The findings come from the combined analysis of data from 190,285 individuals from 41 studies worldwide, published this week in Molecular Psychiatry.Severe childhood maltreatment (physical, se... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/child_maltreatment_increases_risk_adult_obesity_214292.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/process_engineering/a_type_laser_214290.html [Process Engineering] Its operation principle is completely different from conventional devices, which opens up the possibility of a significantly reduced energy input requirement. The researchers report their work in the ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/process_engineering/a_type_laser_214290.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/clouds_head_214287.html [Health and Medicine] They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the networking of different neural circuits. Scientists funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) propose that... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/clouds_head_214287.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/team_finds_mechanism_linking_key_inflammatory_marker_214283.html [Life Sciences] Scientists call this Jekyll-and-Hyde molecule NF-kappa B. In healthy cells, it is a powerful “first responder,” a vital part of the body's immune and inflammatory responses. It spends most of its life... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/team_finds_mechanism_linking_key_inflammatory_marker_214283.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/promising_treatment_progeria_reach_214274.html [Health and Medicine] A new study performed at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, indicates that the development of progeria in mice was inhibited upon reducing the production of this enzyme. ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/promising_treatment_progeria_reach_214274.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/anabolic_steroids_affect_future_mental_health_214275.html [Health and Medicine] This is the main conclusion of a new study on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of Gothenburg recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Twenty per c... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/anabolic_steroids_affect_future_mental_health_214275.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/competition_quantum_world_214276.html [Physics and Astronomy] They are the first scientists that simulated the competition between two rival dynamical processes at a novel type of transition between two quantum mechanical orders. They have published the results ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/competition_quantum_world_214276.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/method_proposed_detecting_gravitational_waves_ends_214262.html [Physics and Astronomy] A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/method_proposed_detecting_gravitational_waves_ends_214262.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/scientists_shape_global_topographic_map_saturn_s_214261.html [Physics and Astronomy] Titan is Saturn's largest moon – at 1,600 miles (2,574 kilometers) across it's bigger than planet Mercury – and is the second-largest in the solar system. Scientists care about Titan because it's the ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/scientists_shape_global_topographic_map_saturn_s_214261.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/black_hole_powered_jets_plow_galaxy_214256.html [Physics and Astronomy] This multi-wavelength view shows 4C+29.30, a galaxy located some 850 million light years from Earth. The radio emission comes from two jets of particles that are speeding at millions of miles per hour... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/black_hole_powered_jets_plow_galaxy_214256.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/tokyo_institute_technology_research_insight_cell_214254.html [Life Sciences] Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology report details on the biological mechanisms through which cells degrade own cellular material, allowing them to survive starvation conditions. Prot... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/tokyo_institute_technology_research_insight_cell_214254.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/gps_solution_minute_tsunami_alerts_214250.html [Earth Sciences] For the devastating Japan 2011 event, the team reveals that the analysis of the GPS data and issue of a detailed tsunami alert would have taken no more than three minutes. The results are published on... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/gps_solution_minute_tsunami_alerts_214250.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/primary_care_strengthening_health_system_039_s_port_214246.html [Health and Medicine] “Primary care in the driver's seat” was the title for a discussion in Vienna between experts on international trends in primary care. The symposium was organised by the Main Association of Austri... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/primary_care_strengthening_health_system_039_s_port_214246.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_eastern_pacific_tropical_storm_alvin_214244.html [Earth Sciences] NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Alvin just as it reached tropical storm status on May 15 at 2047 UTC (4:47 p.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboar... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_eastern_pacific_tropical_storm_alvin_214244.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/geophysics_contribute_disaster_planning_214243.html [Earth Sciences] Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering – especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in the devel... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/geophysics_contribute_disaster_planning_214243.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/stacking_2_d_materials_produces_surprising_results_214242.html [Materials Sciences] Graphene has dazzled scientists, ever since its discovery more than a decade ago, with its unequalled electronic properties, its strength and its light weight. But one long-sought goal has proved elus... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/materials_science/stacking_2_d_materials_produces_surprising_results_214242.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_satellite_data_helps_pinpoint_glaciers_039_role_214245.html [Earth Sciences] The new research found glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, repositories of 1 percent of all land ice, lost an average of 571 trillion pounds (259 trillion kilograms) of mass ev... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_satellite_data_helps_pinpoint_glaciers_039_role_214245.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/llnl_scientist_finds_topography_eastern_seaboard_214236.html [Earth Sciences] Sedimentary rocks from Virginia through Florida show marine flooding during the mid-Pliocene Epoch, which correlates to approximately 4 million years ago. Several wave-cut scarps (rock exposures), whi... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/llnl_scientist_finds_topography_eastern_seaboard_214236.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/world_s_smallest_droplets_214225.html [Physics and Astronomy] That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most p... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/world_s_smallest_droplets_214225.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/asian_lady_beetles_biological_weapons_european_214227.html [Life Sciences] Once introduced for biological pest control, Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis populations have been increasing uncontrollably in the US and Europe since the turn of the millennium.The speci... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/asian_lady_beetles_biological_weapons_european_214227.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/sea_level_rise_melting_mountain_glaciers_214229.html [Earth Sciences] However, the meltwater of glaciers contributed almost as much to the rise in sea level in the period 2003 to 2009 as the two ice sheets: about one third. This is one of the results of an international... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/sea_level_rise_melting_mountain_glaciers_214229.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/nasa_sees_activity_continue_sun_214220.html [Physics and Astronomy] This flare is classified as an X1.2 flare and it is the 18th X-class flare of the current solar cycle. The flare caused a radio blackout – categorized as an R3, or strong, on NOAA's space weather scal... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/nasa_sees_activity_continue_sun_214220.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/scientists_develop_039_green_039_pretreatment_214215.html [Life Sciences] "We pretreat the biomass with switchable butadiene sulfone in the presence of water to break down the plant cell wall, which consists of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the source of biofue... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/scientists_develop_039_green_039_pretreatment_214215.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/robotic_transplant_option_obese_kidney_patients_214214.html [Medical Engineering] UI Health surgeons provide new hope to obese patients previously denied access to kidney transplantation. The findings should allow more obese patients to receive kidney transplants. P... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medical_technology/robotic_transplant_option_obese_kidney_patients_214214.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/tropical_air_circulation_drives_fall_warming_214210.html [Earth Sciences] But new University of Washington research shows that the Southern Hemisphere's fall months – March, April and May – are the only time when there has been extensive warming over the entire peninsula, a... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/tropical_air_circulation_drives_fall_warming_214210.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/4_genes_indentified_influence_levels_039_bad_039_214209.html [Life Sciences] "Our findings are important because they provide new targets for the development of novel drugs to reduce heart disease risk in humans," said Laura Cox, Ph.D., a Texas Biomed geneticist.... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/4_genes_indentified_influence_levels_039_bad_039_214209.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_heavy_rainfall_cyclone_mahasen_made_214207.html [Earth Sciences] When NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Cyclone Mahasen on May 16 at 0406 UTC (12:04 a.m. EDT), the TRMM Microwave imager showed the heaviest rainfall was occurrin... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_heavy_rainfall_cyclone_mahasen_made_214207.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_eastern_pacific_tropical_depression_open_214206.html [Earth Sciences] The first tropical depression formed around 11 a.m. EDT on May 15. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Depression 1-E (TD1E) at 0823 UTC (4:23 a.m. EDT) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/nasa_sees_eastern_pacific_tropical_depression_open_214206.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/study_insight_nesting_behavior_dinosaurs_214208.html [Life Sciences] A university study into the incubation behavior of modern birds is shedding new light on the type of parental care carried out by their long extinct ancestors.The study, by researchers at Geor... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/study_insight_nesting_behavior_dinosaurs_214208.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/rub_physicists_magnetic_dipoles_interact_nanoscale_214205.html [Physics and Astronomy] Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expect... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/rub_physicists_magnetic_dipoles_interact_nanoscale_214205.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/study_finds_plasmin_delivered_a_bubble_effective_tpa_214195.html [Health and Medicine] The novel delivery method involved trapping plasmin into bubble-like liposomes, delivering them to the clot intravenously and bursting it via ultrasound. That method is necessary, says UC associate pr... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/study_finds_plasmin_delivered_a_bubble_effective_tpa_214195.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/developmental_genetics_space_time_214194.html [Life Sciences] Albert Erives, associate professor in the University of Iowa Department of Biology, and his graduate student, Justin Crocker, currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/developmental_genetics_space_time_214194.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/uc_santa_barbara_scientist_studies_methane_levels_214193.html [Earth Sciences] Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, stronger than carbon dioxide on a 20-year timescale, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, though on a century timescale, carbon dioxide is fa... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/uc_santa_barbara_scientist_studies_methane_levels_214193.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/skin_cancer_linked_lower_risk_alzheimer_s_disease_214192.html [Studies and Analyses] The study involved 1,102 people with an average age of 79 who did not have dementia at the start of the study. The participants were followed for an average of 3.7 years. At the start of the study, 10... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/skin_cancer_linked_lower_risk_alzheimer_s_disease_214192.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/iowa_state_engineers_design_test_taller_high_214191.html [Power and Electrical Engineering] Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the College of Engineering's wi... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/iowa_state_engineers_design_test_taller_high_214191.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/untangling_tree_life_214190.html [Life Sciences] The genomics revolution has given them mountains of DNA data that they can sift through to reconstruct the evolutionary history that connects all living beings. But the unprecedented quantity has also... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/untangling_tree_life_214190.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/energy_pattern_observed_national_high_magnetic_field_214179.html [Physics and Astronomy] Two research teams at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) broke through a nearly 40-year barrier recently when they observed a never-before-seen energy pattern. The butterfly-... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/energy_pattern_observed_national_high_magnetic_field_214179.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/brain_rewires_damage_injury_life_scientists_discover_214178.html [Life Sciences] The research, conducted by UCLA's Michael Fanselow and Moriel Zelikowsky in collaboration with Bryce Vissel, a group leader of the neuroscience research program at Sydney's Garvan Institute ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/brain_rewires_damage_injury_life_scientists_discover_214178.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/hirise_mars_camera_reveals_hundreds_impacts_year_214174.html [Physics and Astronomy] Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/hirise_mars_camera_reveals_hundreds_impacts_year_214174.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/nasa_completes_part_webb_telescope_039_s_eye_surgery_214172.html [Physics and Astronomy] It's high-stakes surgery that has taken years of preparation. This science instrument must fit precisely into the ISIM, or Integrated Science Instrument Module (the black frame on the right to wh... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/nasa_completes_part_webb_telescope_039_s_eye_surgery_214172.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/innovation_spectroscopy_improve_greenhouse_gas_214171.html [Earth Sciences] The team, which recently published its findings in the journal Nature Photonics, says the technique also could work for other jobs that require gas detection, including the search for hidden explosive... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/innovation_spectroscopy_improve_greenhouse_gas_214171.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/report_identifies_strategies_achieve_net_energy_214170.html [Power and Electrical Engineering] This disparity in useful energy data is just one of several information gaps that must be bridged as the United States transitions towards residences that generate as much energy as they use over the ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/energy_engineering/report_identifies_strategies_achieve_net_energy_214170.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/jekyll_hyde_breathing_auto_emissions_turns_hdl_214169.html [Health and Medicine] In addition to changing HDL from "good" to "bad," the inhalation of emissions activates other components of oxidation, the early cell and tissue damage that causes inflammation, le... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/jekyll_hyde_breathing_auto_emissions_turns_hdl_214169.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/parp_inhibitor_shows_activity_pancreatic_prostate_214167.html [Health and Medicine] In the largest clinical trial to date to examine the efficacy of PARP inhibitor therapy in BRCA 1/2 carriers with diseases other than breast and ovarian cancer, the oral drug olaparib was found to be ... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/parp_inhibitor_shows_activity_pancreatic_prostate_214167.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/long_term_outcomes_patients_advanced_coronary_artery_214168.html [Studies and Analyses] Refractory angina patients endure ongoing chest pain despite optimal medical management and for them, standard revascularization techniques, such as surgery or stenting, is no longer an option. Tradit... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/long_term_outcomes_patients_advanced_coronary_artery_214168.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/canada_addess_real_climate_change_challenge_214166.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] To reach Canada's goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 17 per cent below the 2005 level by the year 2020, federal and provincial governments, led by the Prime Minister and provincia... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/canada_addess_real_climate_change_challenge_214166.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/clam_fossils_divulge_secrets_ecologic_stability_214158.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] Trained to examine species abundance – the head counts of specimens – paleontologists test the stability of Earth's past ecosystems. The research shows that factors such as predation and organism... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/clam_fossils_divulge_secrets_ecologic_stability_214158.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/vitamin_c_lower_uric_acid_levels_gout_patients_214157.html [Studies and Analyses] Vitamin C supplementation, alone or in combination with allopurinol, appears to have a weak effect on lowering uric acid levels in gout patients according to the results published in the American Coll... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/vitamin_c_lower_uric_acid_levels_gout_patients_214157.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/chain_zigzag_rub_physicists_magnetic_dipoles_214151.html [Physics and Astronomy] Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expect... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/chain_zigzag_rub_physicists_magnetic_dipoles_214151.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/natural_039_keystone_molecules_039_punch_weight_214156.html [Ecology, The Environment and Conservation] Naturally occurring "keystone" molecules that have powerful behavioral effects on diverse organisms often play large but unrecognized roles in structuring ecosystems, according to a theory p... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/environment_sciences/natural_039_keystone_molecules_039_punch_weight_214156.html en http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/observation_sound_a_quantum_gas_214147.html [Physics and Astronomy] Physicists from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Trento, Italy, have now proven the propagation of such a temperature wave in a quantum gas... http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/physics_astronomy/observation_sound_a_quantum_gas_214147.html en