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Bionorica Phytoneering Award 2015: Honoring Innovation in Botanicals

The award given biannually by the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) and Bionorica SE, a leading company in the area of…

Corporate News

Siemens Delivers Compressor Solution for U.S. LNG Project

Siemens has been awarded a contract for supplying the initial ten compressor trains for a major Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in the USA. Siemens'…

Materials Sciences

Southampton Scientists Discover New Method for Water Isomer Detection

Water molecules exist in two forms or 'isomers', ortho and para, that have different nuclear spin states. In ortho-water, the nuclear spins are parallel to one…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Diffraction: Unlocking New Frontiers in Technology

The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies…

Earth Sciences

Global Mix-Master: Howie Scher’s Arctic Encounter Inspires Innovation

Trekking across the high Canadian Arctic almost 20 years ago, Howie Scher had an unexpected encounter that helped fix the course of his career.

Corporate News

Siemens Powers California Reservation with Innovative Microgrid

The assets to be integrated into the microgrid system include a photovoltaic plant with a power output of 0.5 megawatts (MW), a biomass fuel cell system and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Barley Genome Sequencing Reaches New Milestone

Barley, a widely grown cereal grain commonly used to make beer and other alcoholic beverages, possesses a large and highly repetitive genome that is difficult…

Earth Sciences

Helium Anomaly Could Signal Mount Ontake Eruption Risk

Possibility of long-term risk mitigation

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Fraunhofer IBMT Showcases Ultrasound Tech at IAA 2015

The use of ultrasound in vehicles of all kinds is one of the focuses of the department of ”Technical Ultrasound“ at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical…

Earth Sciences

NASA Uncovers Vegetation’s Role in Mitigating Urban Heat

Impervious surfaces' biggest effect is causing a difference in surface temperature between an urban area and surrounding vegetation. The researchers, who used…

Life & Chemistry

Time-Lapse Study Reveals Canaries’ Song Learning Secrets

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen now compared songs from male canaries that hatched at the beginning and at the end of the…

Materials Sciences

3D-Printed Microscopic Fish: A New Era in Innovation

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped…

Life & Chemistry

Microbes in Dust Reveal Home Geography and Occupant Gender

The new findings, which were published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, highlight the impressive amount of microbial diversity in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Logic Gates: The Future of Computing

Logic gates perform operations on input data to create new outputs. In classical computers, logic gates take the form of diodes or transistors. But quantum…

Life & Chemistry

UMD Study Discovers Off Switch for Biofilm Formation

Bacteria are best known as free-living single cells, but in reality their lives are much more complex. To survive in harsh environments, many species of…

Life & Chemistry

The mending tissue — Cellular instructions for tissue repair

A collaborative study led by scientists at the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has described a universal mechanism…

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