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Environmental Conservation

Better protection for Europe’s protected natural areas: A manual shows possible ways

Climate change and its effects on habitats and on the plant and animal worlds is one of the major challenges facing protected areas all over Europe. The…

Earth Sciences

Soil Color Changes: Understanding Micro-Structures in Air

The fundamental mechanism is the remodeling effect of micro-structures because of motion effects and chemical reactions of the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New research could help make 'roll-up' digital screens a reality for all

Previously, they found that the component could be applied to many electronic designs of an analog nature, such as display screens. Through this current study,…

Life & Chemistry

Offshore Dispersant Data: Impact on Marine Wildlife Safety

While this process helps reduce the likelihood of oil exposure to marine wildlife such as seabirds and marine mammals, aquatic toxicity on marine communities…

Life & Chemistry

Traffic-Related Air Pollution’s Impact on Heart Health

“Our goal was to identify modules, or functional units, which are critical to the performance of the biochemical pathways that govern a host of biological…

Information Technology

IT security for the daily life: Withdrawing money at cash machines with 'Google Glass'

But what IT experts celebrate as a new milestone makes privacy groups skeptical. So far, few people have access to the prototype to test how it can be used in…

Studies and Analyses

Alzheimer’s Disease a Much Larger Cause of Death Than Reported

Currently, Alzheimer’s disease falls sixth on the list of leading causes of death in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Trade Fair News

Intralogistics Europe 2014: Key Innovations and Insights

Intralogistics Europe 2014 will take place from 1 to 4 April of this year in conjunction with SITL Europe 2014, as well as the World Transport & Logistics…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Genetic Advances Boost US Soybean Yields Over 80 Years

In a new study that traces the genetic changes in varieties over the last 80 years of soybean breeding, researchers concluded that increases in yield gains and…

Life & Chemistry

Maize Plus Bacteria: Effective Solution for Copper Contamination

He has also shed light on the biochemical pathways that allow plants and bacteria to clean up some of the worst soils on the planet while increasing their…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Latest Robotic Refueling Technology Tests Explained

Concurrently on the ground, NASA is incorporating results from this test and the Robotic Refueling Mission on the International Space Station to prepare for an…

Studies and Analyses

Detecting Atypical Development in Siblings of Autistic Children

Published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the study found that close to half of the younger siblings of…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover Momentum and Spin in Evanescent Light Waves

The study carried out in the Quantum Condensed Matter Research Group (CEMS, RIKEN, Japan) led by Dr. Franco Nori is published today in the journal Nature…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Secrets of Animal Social Behavior

Understanding the way in which social behaviours such as altruism – when animals benefit others at their own expense – develop is a long-standing problem that…

Studies and Analyses

Sleep Deprivation Heightens Heart Disease Risk in Obese Teens

Obese adolescents not getting enough sleep? A study in today's The Journal of Pediatrics, shows they could be increasing their risk for developing diabetes,…

Life & Chemistry

Enzyme Regulates Transport of Genomic Building Blocks

Histone proteins are key building blocks of this architecture and contain crucial information that regulates our genes. Danish researchers show how an enzyme…

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