The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Typhoon Francisco on Oct. 17 at 04:05 UTC in the…
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite capable of infecting nearly all warm-blooded animals. While healthy human adults usually suffer no lasting ill effects from…
As the nation's health care system prepares for uninsured Americans to gain health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, a question hangs over…
Now, a University of Missouri researcher has found that the temperature of the Pacific Ocean could help scientists predict the type and location of tornado…
High blood pressure during pregnancy could dramatically raise a woman's lifetime risk of stroke, according to a study presented today at the Canadian Stroke…
This find is forcing a change in perspective in the field of paleoanthropology: human species diversity two million years ago was much smaller than presumed…
One year after the start of the Federal Cluster of Excellence “Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures” at Technische Universität…
The invention describes a multilevel converter topology whose modules can dynamically be connected in series or parallel. For high voltages, the modules can be…
Force sensors for the detection of molecular forces in the sub-micronewton regime. With the current approach realized by reasearchers at Technische Universität…
Teaching two-legged robots a stable, robust “human” way of walking – this is the goal of the international research project “KoroiBot” with scientists from…
A team of astronomers led by Arjen van der Wel from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has found the most distant gravitational lens yet – a galaxy…
The KfW Sustainability Indicator 2013 is weaker than in the previous year and only just above the average value of the preceding ten years. While the “economy”…
The trend of parameters such as gearing ratio, debt maturities, and financing volumes suggest that banks do currently prefer to extend their loans than to…
Scheduled for handover in December 2013, the Vectron AC locomotives will be leased out for at least three years from the date of delivery. Both locomotives…
Clay can be used in various forms for a range of objects such as cups, plates or bricks. Similarly, proteins can transform their structure and thus adapt their…
The brain is an extremely adaptable organ – but it is also very conservative according to scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in…
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