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Health & Medicine

Montmorency Tart Cherry Juice Lowers Uric Acid and Inflammation

A new study published in the Journal of Functional Foods is the first to report consumption of Montmorency tart cherries caused changes in uric acid…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Competitive Pricing in Germany’s Photovoltaic Industry

With 8 to 10 Cents per kilowatt hour, the production cost of photovoltaic electricity in Germany ranges below electricity cost from gas-fired or coal-fired…

Health & Medicine

New molecule fights oxidative stress; May lead to therapies for cancer and Alzheimer's

“Oxidative stress can cause damage to the building blocks of a cell, resulting in excessive cell proliferation, in the case of cancer or cell death, in the…

Process Engineering

Laser Technology Enhances Joining of Ultra-High-Strength Steels

Within the scope of the research project SECOMAL, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT in Aachen has determined process parameters and process…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Waters Change: A Steep Sea Level Rise Ahead

The research published in Nature Communications found that in the past, when ocean temperatures around Antarctica became more layered – with a warm layer of…

Interdisciplinary Research

Robot researcher combines nature to nurture ‘superhuman’ navigation

Dr Michael Milford from QUT's Science and Engineering Faculty says the new study uses new computer algorithms to enable robots to navigate intelligently,…

Life & Chemistry

Characterizing Key Reactive Intermediates in Chemical Reactions

Chemical reactions rarely go from starting materials to final products in one single step, but instead they progress through a number of intermediates. In many…

Medical Engineering

MIT Engineers Create High-Speed Drug Screening for Animals

MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals, making it easier to discover promising new…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Mutation Discovery Sparks New Cancer Drug Development

Scientists at the University of Michigan and the U-M Health System recently discovered a protein mutation that causes the devastating disease dyskeratosis…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Grass-Inspired Innovation Boosts Organic Solar Cells Efficiency

Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an international research team led by Alejandro…

Science Education

Cultural Insights in Science Communication and Nature Preservation

Do we think of nature as something that we enjoy when we visit a national park and something we need to “preserve?” Or do we think of ourselves as a part of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Solutions to Urban Power Outages After Storms

Imagine a massive storm cell hits a major city in the United States, taking out a power substation leaving 20,000 people without electricity. Even with 24-hour…

Information Technology

CIE + Cisco Innovation Challenge: Shaping Big Data and Cloud

The Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) and Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (Cisco EIR) have created the “CIE + Cisco Innovation Challenge” to support…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UT Dallas Tech Promises Longer Battery Life for Mobile Devices

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas have created technology that could be the first step toward wearable computers with self-contained power…

Physics & Astronomy

Harvard Researchers Enhance Thin Films Using Optical Interference

Applying a well-known optical phenomenon called thin-film interference, a group of researchers at Harvard University has demonstrated the ability to “paint”…

Environmental Conservation

Rating the Planet’s Oceans

The most comprehensive assessment conducted by the Ocean Health Index rates the Earth’s oceans at 67 out of 100 in overall health. In addition, for the…

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