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Power and Electrical Engineering

New Developments in Laser Optics: Frontiers of Optical Science

Source: International Public Relations, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo

Life & Chemistry

Protons Drive YiiP Protein to Regulate Zinc Levels

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University report they have deciphered the inner workings of a protein called YiiP that prevents the lethal buildup of zinc…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Footballs: Enhancing Your World Cup Experience

Detergent molecules comprise two distinct parts: one that prefers to form bonds with water (hydrophilic) and the other that likes oily substances…

Health & Medicine

Maternal Pesticide Exposure Linked to Health Risks, Study Finds

The large, multisite California-based study examined associations between specific classes of pesticides, including organophosphates, pyrethroids and…

Studies and Analyses

Air Pollution Controls Reduce Death Rates in North Carolina

Using mortality trends from state public health data, along with monthly measurements from air-monitoring stations across North Carolina from 1993-2010, the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Program Your Robot with Simple Conversations: A New Approach

Before you can tell your household robot “Make me a bowl of ramen noodles,” you'll have to teach it how to do that. Since we're not all computer programmers,…

Physics & Astronomy

Higgs Boson Direct Decay Into Fermions: New Evidence Unveiled

For the first time, scientists from the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have succeeded in finding evidence for the direct decay of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Study Reveals Solar Power’s Untapped Potential

Concentrating solar power (CSP) could supply a substantial amount of current energy demand, according to the study published in the journal Nature Climate…

Health & Medicine

New Research Unlocks Alarm Response in Immune Cells

An international team of researchers under the direction of scientists from the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University Hospital of Bonn has discovered…

Life & Chemistry

Limb regeneration: Do salamanders hold the key?

For the first time, researchers have found that the 'ERK pathway' must be constantly active for salamander cells to be reprogrammed, and hence able to…

Life & Chemistry

Seeing the inner workings of the brain made easier by new technique from Stanford scientists

Last year Karl Deisseroth, a Stanford professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, announced a new way of peering into a brain –…

Life & Chemistry

Computer-designed protein triggers self-destruction of Epstein-Barr-infected cancer cells

A protein molecule, “BINDI,” has been built to trigger self-destruction of cancer cells infected with the Epstein-Barr virus.

Life & Chemistry

The genes tell crows to choose partners that look alike

What is the driving engine behind biodiversity? One and a half centuries years ago, Charles Darwin recognized that species are subject to evolutionary change….

Physics & Astronomy

Gas Streamer Discovered Near Supermassive Black Hole NGC 5548

The international team of researchers detected a clumpy gas stream flowing quickly outwards and blocking 90 percent of the X-rays emitted by the black hole….

Materials Sciences

New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed

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Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers pierce galactic clouds to shine light on black hole development

An international team of scientists including a Virginia Tech physicist have discovered that winds blowing from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy…

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