The new changes, approved at a recent meeting of the International Code Council (ICC), apply to the nation's most tornado-prone regions. Enhanced protection…
A new genus of plant bug and four new species have been discovered in Australia. The newly discovered insects, which belong to the family Miridae and the…
Greenland's glaciers are retreating quickly, and a new study shows in historical terms just how quickly: over the past century, at least twice as fast as any…
Peering into the seething soup of primordial matter created in particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC, https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/)-an…
This makes it a material of choice for use in the transportation and machinery industries, which rely on cast iron's resistance to wear, deformation, and…
Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the atmosphere. They include relatively simple…
The common perception that the bodies of all living beings age, is wrong. This has now been proved by scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic…
Metastases occur when tumour cells detach from the primary tumour and migrate to distant sites through the connective tissue of organs.
Prof. Dr. Sonja Utz studied whether social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) users can retrieve professional informational benefits from social media use….
The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing approximately EUR 11 million over the next four years to fund a new collaborative research center on…
We are exposed to low levels of the heavy metal cadmium, daily. This occurs primarily through food, but smokers are also exposed from cigarette smoke. Cadmium…
Children suffering from a cancer of the nervous system could benefit from a potential new treatment, thanks to an international team led by researchers at the…
But how can a scientific publication be transformed into a video lasting three to five minutes? Science described comprehensibly in short videos – this is…
Earthquakes along those faults typically do not exceed earthquake magnitudes around M8 but occur at shallow depth thus posing a major threat to nearby…
The level of radioactive cesium isotopes in the sample, 11 Becquerel's per cubic meter of seawater (about 264 gallons), is 50 percent higher than other samples…
Siemens is strengthening its collaboration with Norwegian company Statoil on floating offshore wind turbines. For the 30 megawatt (MW) Hywind Scotland Project,…
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