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Environmental Conservation

Global warming’s biggest offenders

When it comes to global warming, there are seven big contributors: the United States, China, Russia, Brazil, India, Germany and the United Kingdom. A new study…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Brain Complexity: How Connections Influence Thought

The structure of the human brain is complex, reminiscent of a circuit diagram with countless connections. But what role does this architecture play in the…

Health & Medicine

Blood Type Diet Debunked: Study Finds No Evidence

“Based on the data of 1,455 study participants, we found no evidence to support the 'blood-type' diet theory,” said the senior author of the study, Dr. Ahmed…

Health & Medicine

Brain regions 'tune' activity to enable attention

Researchers think the process, roughly akin to tuning multiple walkie-talkies to the same frequency, may help establish clear channels for communication…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Flue Gas Steam: Energy Savings for Steel Mills

In the past, flue gases were usually not utilized, so the energy they carried was lost. The system consists of steam boilers, pipes, water tanks, and pumps and…

Environmental Conservation

EU Emissions Could Drop 40% by 2030 at Low Cost

Upscaling greenhouse-gas emissions reduction from the current 20 percent by 2020 to 40 percent by 2030 would be likely to cost less than an additional 0.7…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Typhoid Fever Pathogen Evasion Strategies

Prof. Dirk Bumann’s research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has now uncovered how the typhoid pathogen repeatedly manages to evade the…

Life & Chemistry

Salmonella Biofilms Show High Resistance to Disinfectants

Researchers from National University of Ireland, Galway conducted a study in which they attempted to kill Salmonella biofilms on a variety of hard surfaces,…

Studies and Analyses

MIT Neuroscientists Discover Brain Processes Images in 13 ms

However, a team of neuroscientists from MIT has found that the human brain can process entire images that the eye sees for as little as 13 milliseconds — the…

Information Technology

Future Data Storage Innovations at Domain Boundaries

Storing more and more in an ever-smaller space – what sounds impossible is in fact just part of the daily routine in information technology, where for decades,…

Machine Engineering

Application flexibility with guided wave radar

With its new Sitrans LG series, Siemens is offering a flexible portfolio of guided wave radar transmitters suitable for virtually any type of industrial…

Trade Fair News

French Pavilion Highlights 40 Retail Innovators at EuroShop 2014

UBIFRANCE, the French government agency for international business development, is organising the French Pavilion at EUROSHOP, the trade show of reference for…

Life & Chemistry

Ants Boost Acacia Plant Health by Reducing Bacterial Pathogens

The presence of ants greatly reduces bacterial abundance on surfaces of leaves and has a visibly positive effect on plant health. Study results indicate that…

Event News

Neuroscience Innovations Discussed at Magdeburg Event

The event is organised by the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, and the Otto…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Beta Cell Failure and Diabetes Restoration

Two new studies led by UC San Francisco (UCSF) scientists shed new light on the nature of beta cells, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas that are…

Earth Sciences

Study Reveals Ancient Landmasses Existed 2.7 Billion Years Ago

A new study by Jacobs University Bremen, in close cooperation with the University of Bonn and the University of Cologne, shows that 2,700 million years ago…

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