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Health & Medicine

New Active Substance Targets Hospital Pathogens Effectively

Every third person, according to expert estimates, carries the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus in their nose – which is not dangerous in the case of healthy…

Corporate News

Siemens Brings H-Class Power Plant Technology to Mexico

Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply two SGT6-8000H gas turbines and two generators to Mexico. The components are to be installed at the Empalme I…

Information Technology

Biodegradable Computer Chips: A New Era in Electronics

Portable electronics – typically made of non-renewable, non-biodegradable and potentially toxic materials – are discarded at an alarming rate in consumers'…

Physics & Astronomy

Merging Galaxies Reveal New Insights on Supermassive Black Holes

In the most extensive survey of its kind ever conducted, a team of scientists have found an unambiguous link between the presence of supermassive black holes…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Low-Altitude Aerial Imaging Detects Avocado Disease Early

Reza Ehsani, an associate professor in agricultural and biological engineering at the UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred, used a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough Technique Advances Single-Molecule Device Design

Under the direction of Latha Venkataraman, associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, researchers have designed a new technique to create…

Physics & Astronomy

New Technique Boosts NanoMRI Imaging Speed and Clarity

NanoMRI is a scanning technique that produces nondestructive, high-resolution 3-D images of nanoscale objects, and it promises to become a powerful tool for…

Life & Chemistry

Stress triggers key molecule to halt transcription of cell's genetic code

Researchers at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and elsewhere have shown that a molecule called elongin A plays two roles in this process. When cells…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Toolset Empowers Farmers to Enhance Water Quality

Writing in the current issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, the team describes its Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF): a systematic…

Health & Medicine

How Tumor Surroundings Influence Cancer Progression

Our environment can have a major impact on how we develop, and it turns out it's no different for cancer cells. In work published today in Neoplasia, a team of…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Sodium-Oxygen Battery Reaction Mechanism

Researchers from the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, led by Professor Linda Nazar who holds the Canada Research Chair in Solid State Energy Materials,…

Life & Chemistry

Longhorned Beetles’ Unique Mating Timing Revealed

For these beetles to find a mate of the right species, timing is everything, according to research from a University of Arizona-led team.

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering Cosmic Methusalems: End of the Dark Ages Unveiled

An international team, including researchers from the Centre for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH), has discovered three “cosmic Methusalems” from the…

Information Technology

New Research Field Launches at Stuttgart and Constance Universities

In its meeting on 21st May 2015 the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the establishment of a new transregional special research field (SFB/Transregio)…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Interglacial Insights: New Research Unveiled

Scientists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre working together with their Canadian…

Architecture & Construction

Urban Quality: Strategies for Sustainable Suburban Growth

To stop urban sprawl and protect landscapes, suburban areas in Switzerland need to develop inwards. This strategy is widely accepted and has political backing….

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