All News

Statistics

Higher Education Degrees Completed On Time: 39.3% Success Rate

This is 39.3% of all degrees. If two subsequent semesters are added to the standard period of study, the proportion of final examinations successfully passed…

Earth Sciences

Mysterious Baltic Ocean Circles Finally Explained

Since the first images of the mysterious ocean circles off the Baltic coast of Denmark were taken in 2008, people have tried to find an explanation. Now…

Physics & Astronomy

New Integration Advances Quantum Computing Breakthroughs

Scientists and engineers from an international collaboration led by Dr Mark Thompson from the University of Bristol have, for the first time, generated and…

Studies and Analyses

Effects of Catch-and-Release Fishing on Shark Populations

A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Boosts Immunity Against Tumors: A New Approach

But, biologists think that vaccine adjuvants could be much better: The currently available licensed adjuvants are poor inducers of T helper cells and even…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Monitors System 91S in Mozambique Channel

At 800 UTC/3 a.m. EST, the center of System 91S was located near 18.2 south latitude and 39.1 east longitude, about 370 nautical miles northeast of Maputo,…

Event News

AKL‘14 in Aachen:Laser Technology for Innovators from Micro-engineering to Aviation

For every target group – be it laser manufacturers, users or beginners – around 60 lecturers will be bringing together innovative applications from the…

Life & Chemistry

New Molecular Mechanism Found for Plant Growth Control

A joint study published in Cell by the teams headed by Miquel Coll at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Institute of Molecular…

Health & Medicine

Study Finds More than A Third of Women Have Hot Flashes 10 Years after Menopause

A team of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that moderate to severe hot flashes continue, on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Rice lab clocks ‘hot’ electrons

Plasmonic nanoparticles developed at Rice University are becoming known for their ability to turn light into heat, but how to use them to generate electricity…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Letting in the Light

Soiling — the accumulation of dust and sand — on solar power reflectors and photovoltaic cells is one of the main efficiency drags for solar power plants,…

Materials Sciences

Glass That Bends but Doesn’t Break

Normally when you drop a drinking glass on the floor it shatters. But, in future, thanks to a technique developed in McGill’s Department of Mechanical…

Materials Sciences

Electrochemical Bias Enables In Situ Bandgap Tuning of Graphene Oxide

Super-strong graphene oxide (GO) sheets are useful for ultrathin, flexible nano-electronic devices, and display unique properties including photoluminescence…

Studies and Analyses

Third-Hand Smoke Linked to Serious Health Risks

Do not smoke and do not allow yourself to be exposed to smoke because second-hand smoke and third-hand smoke are just as deadly as first-hand smoke, says a…

Life & Chemistry

Neurons Control Arm Movement: Insights from Latest Research

As the research group led by Professor Silvia Arber at the University of Basel's Biozentrum and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research has…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Football Helmet Concussion Risk Differences

The study analyzed head impact data compiled from eight collegiate football teams that included Virginia Tech, University of North Carolina, University of…

Feedback