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New Marker May Predict Ipilimumab Response in Melanoma

The study suggests combining immunotherapy with VEGF inhibitors, also known as angiogenesis inhibitors, may be a potential option for these patients.The…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smart Sensor System Boosts Indoor Air Quality and Saves Energy

Energy consumption levels can be halved as a result. Professor Andreas Schütze is an expert in gas sensor technology at Saarland University and is the…

Life & Chemistry

Berlin Scientists Identify New Frog Family in West Africa

While studying the phylogeny of these frogs, scientists from the Berlin Natural History Museum and their colleagues from Switzerland came across a scientific…

Materials Sciences

Gummy Material Enhances Safety in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Led by Katie Zhong, Westinghouse Distinguished Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the researchers recently reported on their work…

Trade Fair News

Plethora: Universal Prototyping Platform for Wireless Systems

Plethora was originally designed to make it easier to test different distributed data collection and localization processes with a single hardware platform. However, because Plethora provides all developers of complex, distributed applications in fields such as building or process automation greater testing leeway, Fraunhofer ESK researchers are introducing the prototyping platform to the public for the first time at the embedded world trade fair in Nürnberg (February 25-27, 2014, stand 5-250, hall 5). …

Earth Sciences

Greenland’s fastest glacier reaches record speeds

Researchers from the University of Washington and the German Space Agency (DLR) measured the dramatic speeds of the fast-flowing glacier in 2012 and 2013. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Diagnosis Just a Breath Away with New Laser

Published in the journal Optics Letters, the researchers from the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing and the School of Chemistry and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Helping a Greenhouse Gas Turn Over a New Leaf

A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide — a…

Earth Sciences

Climate Study Projects Major Changes in Vegetation Distribution by 2100

Climate researchers have calculated that the spread of plant species in nearly half the world’s land areas could be affected by predicted global warming by the…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Links Neuron Connectivity to Autism in Mice

Scientists have now identified, for the first time, a way in which this decreased functional connectivity can come about. In a study published online today in…

Business and Finance

Not so ‘evil’: Finance study makes case for hedging

None other than Warren Buffet has attacked derivatives as “time bombs – both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.”But now, for the first…

Information Technology

Robots with Insect Brains: Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain

Autonomous robots that find their way through unfamiliar terrain? Not so distant future.Researchers at the Bernstein Fokus Neuronal Basis of Learning, the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cold-Acclimating Citrus: Testing Well-Watered Varieties

Commercial citrus growers are often challenged by environmental conditions in winter, including low seasonal rainfall that is typical in many citrus growing…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Native Aromatics Boost Mediterranean Green Roofs’ Appeal

Green roofs are being studied as a means to increase vegetation and preserve aesthetics in old Mediterranean cities. In order to preserve ancient cities' local…

Earth Sciences

TRMM Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Dylan Make Landfall in Queensland

Tropical storm Dylan was heading from the Coral Sea toward Australia's Queensland coast when it was viewed by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)…

Environmental Conservation

Trees' diminished resistance to tropical cyclone winds attributed to insect invasions

Guam experiences more tropical cyclones than any other state or territory in the United States. These cyclones–called typhoons in the western Pacific…

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