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Materials Sciences

How Spiders Spin Silk: New Insights from Swedish Researchers

Now, Anna Rising and Jan Johansson at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Karolinska Institutet show how the silk formation process is…

Earth Sciences

Sea-Level Spikes: A Growing Threat to Coastal Communities

The new research suggests that these sea-level anomalies could be more of a threat to coastal homes and businesses than previously thought, and could become…

Life & Chemistry

Boosting Insect Aggression Through Brain Metabolism Changes

The new research follows up on previous work from the laboratory of University of Illinois entomology professor and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene…

Life & Chemistry

Biology Made Simpler With "Clear" Tissues

In general, our knowledge of biology—and much of science in general—is limited by our ability to actually see things. Researchers who study…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Process Unlocks New Fuel and Chemical Compounds

Researchers from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), which is headquartered at UW-Madison and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy,…

Health & Medicine

Biology Made Simpler With “Clear” Tissues – Innovations Report

“We need to follow up with cancer survivors long after their diagnoses to see whether they are still smoking and offer appropriate counseling, interventions,…

Social Sciences

Crime Victims' Institute tracks the state of stalking in Texas

According to CDC estimates, 15.6 percent of the female population in Texas will experience stalking, slightly less than the 16.2 percent national average of…

Health & Medicine

Funding Unconventional Science: Navigating Risky Research Ideas

Scientists with extremely unusual and risky research ideas that may also run counter to conventional thinking struggle these days to obtain money for their…

Earth Sciences

Angiosperm Plants and Mammal Dung: Fueling Beetle Evolution

Dr. Dirk Ahrens, Dr. Julia Schwarzer and their colleague Prof. Alfried Vogler reconstructed a phylogeny of scarab beetles, which include stag beetles, dung…

Corporate News

Boosting Cost-Effectiveness in Wind Turbine Manufacturing

Siemens focus on a seamless interplay and end-to-end integration of components and systems, and can offer, for example, an integrated protection concept made…

Corporate News

Siemens Electric Arc Furnace Launches at Baku Steel

Azerbaijani steel producer Baku Steel has put into operation an electric arc furnace supplied by Siemens Metals Technologies. The new furnace is part of an…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Captures Unique View of Typhoon Halong

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Halong on Aug. 4 at 12:47 a.m. EDT, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard provided infrared…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Bursts of Thunderstorms in Tropical Depression Genevieve's Center

A false-colored infrared image created at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California used data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)…

Earth Sciences

NASA Observes Tropical Storm Nakri’s Brief Journey

On Saturday, August 2, at 9 p.m. EDT, Nakri's maximum sustained winds were near 40 knots (46 mph/74 kph).

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Typhoon Halong's Eye Wink

On August 2 at 01:45 UTC (August 1 at 9:45 p.m. EDT) NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of a wide-eyed Super Typhoon Halong moving through the…

Communications Media

No-Power Wi-Fi: A New Era for Internet of Things Connectivity

This not-so-distant “Internet of Things” reality would extend connectivity to perhaps billions of devices. Sensors could be embedded in everyday objects to…

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