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New School Meal Standards Boost Fruit and Vegetable Intake

New federal standards launched in 2012 that require schools to offer healthier meals have led to increased fruit and vegetable consumption, according to a new…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Polymer Behavior Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Atomic force microscopy is a method normally used for imaging matter with very high resolution. The sharp tip of the microscope is used to scan the surface…

Materials Sciences

Ultra-Fast Laser Spectroscopy Unveils Iron-Based Material Secrets

Physicist Jigang Wang and his colleagues recently used ultra-fast laser spectroscopy to examine and explain the mysterious electronic properties of iron-based…

Earth Sciences

GOES-West Satellite Captures Storm Approaching California

The storm was captured using visible data from NOAA's GOES-West or GOES-15 satellite on Feb. 28 at 1430 UTC/6:30 a.m. PST was made into an image by NASA/NOAA's…

Architecture & Construction

CFD Innovations: Every Detail Covered by Fraunhofer Scientists

Scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP want to understand every little detail, and so have every millimeter covered. Because they…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Captures Great Freeze Over Great Lakes

Author Craig Childs is not describing an Arctic lake. He's describing the bitterly cold and frozen scene on Lake Superior, during his February 2014 trek on the…

Medical Engineering

New Nanoscale Method Uses Light to Target Cancer Cells

The research findings by UCLA's Jeffrey Zink, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Fuyu Tamanoi, a professor of microbiology, immunology and…

Health & Medicine

New Sensor Detects Antibiotic Levels for Personalized Treatment

The study, published today in Nature Nanotechnology, describes the exploitation of a sensor for measuring the concentration of effective antibiotics in blood,…

Awards Funding

ESMT Earns Two Prestigious Case Centre Awards 2014

Together with Harvard Business School and INSEAD, ESMT is one of only three business schools honored with two prizes this year. As one of the world’s largest…

CeBIT 2014

Empowering Learning: Apply Knowledge with ‘askMe!’ Tool

”askMe!” allows students to apply the theoretical knowledge they have acquired to practical situations, and to transfer this knowledge to other areas of…

Trade Fair News

Knowledge Transfer Success at University of Stuttgart

At Europe’s largest trade fair for intralogistics LogiMAT, taking place from 25th until 27th February 2014 in Stuttgart, the double-skid system produced by…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Identifies Protective Mutations Against Type 2 Diabetes

An international team led by researchers at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified mutations in a gene that can reduce the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Plants Harness Energy Rapidly to Combat Light Intensity

“This is the first time we have been able to quantify a plant's ability to protect itself against high light intensity,” said Professor Alexander Ruban,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Entomologists Update Definitions to Combat Crop Resistance

The recorded cases of resistance in insects, mites and other arthropods, which include resistance to multiple pesticides per species, more than doubled from…

Health & Medicine

Tracing Single Cell Decisions During Early Infections

Using technologies and computational modeling that trace the destiny of single cells, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine…

Earth Sciences

European Flood Risk Expected to Double by 2050: Study Insights

Current flood losses in Europe are likely to double by 2050, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change by researchers from the…

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