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CeBIT Unveils Early-Warning System for Health Risks

That environmental factors affect health is neither unknown nor new. But how are the two actually connected? How can predictions be better used to avoid, for…

Materials Sciences

Discover Mottronics: The Future of Electronic Gadgets

“Mottronics” is a term seemingly destined to become familiar to aficionados of electronic gadgets. Named for the Nobel laureate   Nevill Francis Mott,…

Environmental Conservation

How Flowers Influence Disease Spread Among Pollinators

But “almost nothing is known regarding how pathogens of pollinators are transmitted at flowers,” postdoctoral researcher Scott McArt and Professor Lynn Adler…

Materials Sciences

Driving Skyrmion Molecules: Advances in Low-Power Magnetics

Magnetic materials that enhance the magnetotransport property and for the high-density/low-power consumption magnetic memory

Information Technology

PolyU and Sino Parking Launch Innovative Smartphone Parking App

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) of PolyU and Sino Parking are jointly undertaking a project, entitled “Development and…

Life & Chemistry

Colloidal Particles: New Frontiers in Hybrid Nanoparticle Chains

Molecules can copolymerize to form longer composite chains; it turns out that nanoparticles called colloidal particles can also copolymerize to make hybrid…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploding Clusters: Unveiling Atom Interaction Secrets

An intense light pulse interacting with a weakly bound van der Waals cluster consisting of thousands of atoms can eventually lead to the explosion of the…

Innovative Products

Enhance Sleep Comfort with New Hygiene-Boosting Pillow Covers

However, these particletight  covers are also an important hygiene precaution anywhere where bed occupancy changes regularly. Greater use of special pillow…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Brain Cells’ Role in Social Understanding

In a study to be published in Psychological Science, researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen demonstrate that brain cells in what…

Materials Sciences

New Method for Creating Porous Materials Unveiled

The process, more than three years in the making and outlined in the December 2013 edition of Nature Communications, has resulted in the creation of more than…

Studies and Analyses

Future Climate Impacts on Atlantic Deep Ocean Circulation

Today, deep waters formed in the northern North Atlantic fill approximately half of the deep ocean globally. In the process, this impacts on the…

Transportation and Logistics

Public unveiling of first C2 metro train

This jointly unveiled train will be followed by 20 more by the year 2015, for a total of 126 new metro cars. This order marks the biggest purchase of rolling…

Physics & Astronomy

Distant Quasars May Resolve Quantum Mechanics Loophole

In a paper published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, MIT researchers propose an experiment that may close the last major loophole of Bell's…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Insights Offer New Understanding of Human Kidneys

The findings from a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Tokyo Institute of Technology appear in the online issue of the American Journal of…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite saw extreme rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Guito

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite had a look at tropical cyclone Guito in the Mozambique Channel on February 18, 2014 at 1525 UTC/10:25…

Health & Medicine

Dismantling pancreas cancer’s armor

Pancreas cancer is notoriously impervious to treatment and resists both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It has also been thought to provide few targets for…

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