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Light quality in offices – Global study gets underway with online user survey

Light has a fundamental impact on our sense of well-being and performance. In cooperation with Zumtobel, a supplier of lighting solutions, Fraunhofer IAO has…

Earth Sciences

Geoengineering and Climate Change: Understanding Key Risks

Using a simple physical approach, the study explains how the water cycle reacts to surface warming and that it responds differently to heating by sunlight or…

Health & Medicine

Gentler Heart Surgery: TAVI’s Impact on Dementia Risks

For patients at high and excessive risk, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) remains the only opportunity. However, this procedure often leads to a…

Physics & Astronomy

Supernova Blast Provides Clues to Age of Binary Star System

As the name suggests, X-ray binaries are star systems made up of two parts: a compact stellar remnant — either a neutron star or a black hole; and a companion…

Life & Chemistry

Hypothalamus: A New Source of Estrogen in Women’s Health

The new research shows that the hypothalamus can directly control reproductive function in rhesus monkeys and very likely performs the same action in women. Scientists have known for about 80 years that the hypothalamus, a region in the brain, is involved in regulating the menstrual cycle and reproduction. Within the past 40 years, they predicted the presence of neural estrogens, but they did not know whether the brain could actually make and release estrogen….

Architecture & Construction

Curtain wall façade of laminated glass with high strength DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayer maximises safety for …

At 26 stories and around 100 m tall, the Ares Tower, completed in 2001, is one of Vienna's tallest buildings. Its glass curtain wall façade of 2521 rectangular…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Rainfall Quickly Fade in Dying Depression 33W

Tropical Depression 33W or TD 33W had weakened and TRMM showed only two isolated areas of heavy rainfall in the fragmented system.At 0300 UTC on December 4/10…

Health & Medicine

Grape Seed Extract’s B2G2: A New Ally Against Cancer Cells

gWefve shown similar anti-cancer activity in the past with grape seed extract (GSE), but now we know B2G2 is its most biologically active ingredient which…

Physics & Astronomy

New Observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes Offer Solution to Radiation Belts Mystery

The best answer is that some kind of electromagnetic wave coursing through the belts pushes the particles along, not unlike a wave in the ocean providing a…

Physics & Astronomy

Glimpsing the Infrastructure of a Gamma-ray Burst Jet

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. Most are thought to be triggered when the core of a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel,…

Studies and Analyses

Crocodiles Use Lures to Hunt: Insights from UT Study

Turns out the crocodile can be a shrewd hunter himself. A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researcher has found that some crocodiles use lures to hunt their…

Medical Engineering

Genetic Breast Cancer Screening Benefits Intermediate Risk Patients

Archimedes Inc., a healthcare modeling and analytics company, today announced results of a simulated clinical trial which found that the seven…

Studies and Analyses

Social Ties Impact Teen Sleep More Than Biology, Study Finds

But a new study suggests that social ties, including relationships with peers and parents, may be even more responsible for changing sleep patterns among…

Physics & Astronomy

Semiconductor Nanowires: New Laser Light Innovations

Thread-like semiconductor structures called nanowires, so thin that they are effectively one-dimensional, show potential as lasers for applications in…

Health & Medicine

New Vaccination Guidelines for Immunocompromised Patients

The guideline, entitled “Clinical Practice Guideline for the Vaccination of the Immunocompromised Host,” was authored by Lorry G. Rubin, MD, director of the…

Life & Chemistry

New Candidate Species Reveal Iran’s Underestimated Biodiversity

This high ranked paper recently published in PloS ONE demonstrates to what extent Iranian biodiversity was underestimated and how integrative approaches are…

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