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Smart Charging Stations Enhance E-Vehicle and Grid Connectivity

At the Hannover Trade Fair (April 7-11, 2014, booth C10, exhibit hall 13), ESK researchers will be demonstrating how the charging station serves as an…

Physics & Astronomy

Wandering Heat: Insights on 1D Systems and Anomalous Distribution

Just as ember spreads through a piece of coal, heat principally diffuses at a constant rate. The corresponding physical law known as Fourier’s law was already…

Environmental Conservation

High pollutant levels in Guánica Bay 'represent serious toxic threat' to corals

The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA study were among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium…

Life & Chemistry

How do polar bears stay warm?

New study is part of a broader genomic research program aimed at understanding what makes a polar bear a polar bearIn the winter, brown and black bears go into…

Earth Sciences

Giant Mass Extinction Happened Faster Than Previously Believed

The largest mass extinction in the history of animal life occurred some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent…

Medical Engineering

Chips That Listen to Bacteria: A Breakthrough in Sensing Tech

In a study published today in Nature Communications, a research team led by Ken Shepard, professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering at…

Event News

3rd GreenNet Conference: Innovations in Sustainable Practices

Good examples, successful measures and new ideas are called for the 3rd international scientific and final GreenNet conference of the EU project GreenNet –…

Medical Engineering

New Chip Design Enables Fully Implantable Cochlear Implants

A cochlear implant is a device that electronically stimulates the auditory nerve to restore hearing in people with profound hearing loss. Conventional cochlear…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite eyes rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Fobane

NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency manages the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM. TRMM has the capability to measure…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Cars, Computers, TVs to Obesity in Developing Nations

The findings of an international study, led by Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Scott Lear, are published today in the Canadian Medical…

Life & Chemistry

Mayo Clinic Uncovers Key Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development

Central to development of nearly all prostate cancer cases are malfunctions in the androgen receptor — the cellular component that binds to male hormones. The…

Earth Sciences

Flowing Water on Mars: New Insights and Ongoing Mysteries

Martian experts have known since 2011 that mysterious, possibly water-related streaks appear and disappear on the planet’s surface. Georgia Institute of…

Life & Chemistry

With Their Amazing Necks, Ants Don’t Need “High Hopes” to Do Heavy Lifting

High hopes may help move a rubber tree plant (as the old song goes), but the real secret to the ant’s legendary strength may lie in its tiny neck joint.In the…

Transportation and Logistics

Siemens Launches Driverless Metro Line in Singapore

The commissioning of the Line, which has a total length of 42 kilometers and comprises 34 stations, will occur in three phases. Initially, service has…

Studies and Analyses

Ice Age's Arctic Tundra Lush with Wildflowers for Woolly Mammoths, Study Finds

The study, “Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafauna diet,” included Joseph Craine, assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas…

Life & Chemistry

The Genetic Origins of High-Altitude Adaptations in Tibetans

Genetic adaptations for life at high elevations found in residents of the Tibetan plateau likely originated around 30,000 years ago in peoples related to…

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