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Working memory differs by parents' education; effects persist into adolescence

Previous research with young children has documented socioeconomic disparities in performance on tasks of working memory. Now a new longitudinal study has…

Power and Electrical Engineering

High Performance Energy Districts: The CITyFiED Project Launch

A project to demonstrate optimised energy systems for high performance energy cities has just commenced. CITyFiED is a 5-year endeavour co-funded by the EU and…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Captures Tornado Track Near Conway, Ark.

The top image, acquired on April 28 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows what appears to be a tornado…

Earth Sciences

New Study Links Fault Maturity to Quake Magnitude Risks

Identifying the likely maximum magnitude for the NAFZ is critical for seismic hazard assessments, particularly given its proximity to Istanbul.

Life & Chemistry

New Lab-on-a-Chip Device Tackles Miniaturization Challenges

The novel technique developed by the UNSW team involves printing a pattern of miniscule droplets of a special solvent onto a gold-coated or glass surface.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unlocking Potential: Carbon-Based Electronics in Innovation

Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Direct Current: A New Approach to Power Transmission Efficiency

Even though today most of the electricity transmission lines are alternating current ones, in some cases direct current lines are also used. And researchers…

Event News

Boosting Material Efficiency in Tomorrow’s Cars

However, where – in which components and material compounds – and in which quantities can they be found? How can they be identified and recovered at the end of…

Materials Sciences

Fiber Optics Transforming Electronic Components for Faster Data

Fiber optics increased the speed and quantity of information that can be transmitted through the Internet by transforming electrical signals into pulsating…

Materials Sciences

Researchers Track Movement of Ripples in Freestanding Graphene

An international team of scientists, led by physicists at the University of Arkansas, has tracked the dynamic movement of ripples in freestanding graphene at…

Physics & Astronomy

“Virtual Periscope” Sees Above-Surface/Airborne Objects From Underwater View

“Up periscope!” may become a submarine commander's outdated order, thanks to a team of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers who have developed a…

Corporate News

GMP Expands OMICRON’s Laser Sales in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Laser specialist OMICRON based in Rodgau, Germany, expands its international distribution network by adding another representative in Europe. The distribution…

Environmental Conservation

Wildlife Decline Linked to Rise in Rodent-Borne Diseases

A team of Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have discovered a possible link between the two. They found that in East Africa, the loss of large wildlife…

Health & Medicine

Fluorescent Tool Unveils Real-Time Biodegradation of Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles have been heralded as a potential “disruptive technology” in biomedicine, a versatile platform that could supplant conventional technologies,…

Physics & Astronomy

Glassy Manganites: A Promising Material for Future Electronics

Manganites – compounds of manganese oxides – show great promise as “go-to” materials for future electronic devices because of their ability to instantly switch…

Life & Chemistry

New Polymer Membranes Halt Aging and Enhance Gas Separation

Putting a stop to aging has now been made possible for highly porous polymer membranes whose efficiency in the separation of gases falls off fast when parts of…

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