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Power and Electrical Engineering

New Insights on Battery Longevity and Performance

A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power,…

Health & Medicine

Hypersensitivity in Fibromyalgia: Understanding the Pathology

Fibromyalgia is a chronic, musculoskeletal syndrome characterized by widespread pain, affecting roughly two percent of the world population, say experts….

Health & Medicine

Targeting Bladder Cancer: New Insights Into Gene Alterations

More often, many genes are altered together to drive the disease. So the challenge becomes sorting out which altered genes are the most to blame in which…

Studies and Analyses

New Strategies to Dissuade Smokers: Focus on Positivity

The answer depends on how confident you are in your ability to quit, according to a study led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center…

Health & Medicine

Schizophrenia: A Closer Look at Multiple Genetic Disorders

About 80 percent of the risk for schizophrenia is known to be inherited, but scientists have struggled to identify specific genes for the condition. Now, in a…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin E intake critical during 'the first 1,000 days'

A lifelong proper intake of vitamin E is also important, researchers said, but often complicated by the fact that this nutrient is one of the most difficult to…

Health & Medicine

Dead on against Tremors – Imaging technique improves tremor surgery

The idea of having a doctor operate on your open brain while you are wide awake does not sound pleasant. Unfortunately, however, deep brain stimulation in a…

Life & Chemistry

Light-Sensitive Ion Channels Enhance Learning Aid Effectiveness

They are more than 10,000 times more effective than their naturally occurring variant: Light-sensitive ion channels developed and tested by Würzburg plant…

Life & Chemistry

From worm muscle to spinal discs – An evolutionary surprise

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have found that, unexpectedly, this skeleton most likely evolved from a…

Physics & Astronomy

Japanese Team Develops Solid Matter Single-Photon Sources

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials…

Materials Sciences

New Algorithm Measures Average Distance of Low-Speed Electrons

A research team consisting of postdoctoral researcher Da Bo, former postdoctoral researcher Hiroshi Shinotsuka, group leader Hideki Yoshikawa and special…

Power and Electrical Engineering

A*STAR’s SIMTech to Build Local Capabilities for Printed Electronics

Printed electronics allows manufacturers to print electrical devices on materials such as plastic and it is expected to pave the way for the adoption of…

Health & Medicine

Ozone Nano-Bubble Water: A New Approach to Gum Infections

The study published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, by Shinichi Arakawa and colleagues at Tokyo Medical and Dental University and…

Physics & Astronomy

A map of Rosetta's comet

High-resolution images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko reveal a unique, multifaceted world. ESA's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination about a…

Health & Medicine

Yogic Breathing Promises Relief for PTSD Symptoms

A new study from the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers hope for those suffering from…

Life & Chemistry

New research sheds light on microbes’ evolution

Two North­eastern Uni­ver­sity researchers and their inter­na­tional col­leagues have cre­ated an advanced model aimed at exploring the role of neu­tral…

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