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Siemens Upgrades Hot Rolling Mill Automation in Handan

Chinese Handan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. has placed an order with Siemens Metals Technologies to modernize the process automation system of the hot rolling…

Physics & Astronomy

‘Mirage Earth’ exoplanets may have burned away chances for life

But new research led by an astronomy graduate student at the University of Washington indicates some such planets may have long since lost their chance at…

Life & Chemistry

Gecko Adhesion: Nature’s Effortless Sticky Solution

Geckos, found in places with warm climates, have fascinated people for hundreds of years. Scientists have been especially intrigued by these lizards, and have…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Low-Grade Waste Heat Powers Ammonia Battery Innovation

“The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,” said Bruce E. Logan,…

Life & Chemistry

Reliable RNA analysis now easier with NIST 'dashboard' tool

In a recent paper in the journal Nature Communications,* an international multi-laboratory team demonstrates a new software tool, the “erccdashboard,” to…

Medical Engineering

PET Scans Enhance TB Drug Identification, Pitt Study Reveals

The findings, published online today in Science Translational Medicine, indicate the animal model can correctly predict which experimental agents have the best…

Environmental Conservation

Arabian Sea Humpback Whales: 70,000 Years of Isolation

Scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the Environment Society of Oman, and other organizations…

Architecture & Construction

Authentic Machine-Drawn Restoration Glasses by SCHOTT

The international technology group SCHOTT uses the authentic Fourcault process to manufacture its various architectural glasses for the restoration of historic…

Awards Funding

Siemens Inventors Win Award for Web-Based Railway Maintenance

Web-based maintenance of rail vehicles

Information Technology

Broadband Ultrathin Polarization Manipulators Unveiled at KAIST

Professor Bumki Min from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has led the research and it is…

Materials Sciences

Meta Researchers Transform Gold Nanoclusters into Atomic Nuclei

A*STAR researchers have devised a way to destabilize gold nanoclusters so that they form tiny atomic nuclei that then grow together into perfectly…

Materials Sciences

Molecular Threading: Transforming Metal-Organic Frameworks

The ability to ‘thread’ a molecular ligand through a metal–organic framework (MOF) to alter the pore size of the material — and yet allow the MOF to retain its…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ruthenium Catalyst Enhances Eco-Friendly Chemical Production

An efficient catalyst has opened up an environmentally benign route to a family of molecular building blocks found in many pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, a…

Materials Sciences

Self-Assembly Breakthrough: Gold Nanoparticles in Templates

Gold nanoparticles smaller than 10 nanometers spontaneously self-organize in entirely new ways when trapped inside channel-like templates. A new study shows…

Physics & Astronomy

Laser Technology Detects Toxic Gases from a Distance

Scientists have developed a way to sniff out tiny amounts of toxic gases — a whiff of nerve gas, for example, or a hint of a chemical spill — from up to one…

Information Technology

Milestones in Human-Machine Cooperation: Robo-Mate Exoskeleton

Just a little over a year has passed since BBC News ranked the Robo-Mate exoskeleton at No. 2,right after the announcement of the new iPhone, and major…

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