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Financial Incentives Boost Exercise Among Sedentary Adults

Lead author Marc Mitchell, University of Toronto PhD candidate and Cardiac Rehabilitation Supervisor at Toronto Rehab, worked under the leadership of…

Life & Chemistry

Zoology and Botany: Darwin’s Insights Before Genetics

The brilliant “Father of evolutionary theory” Charles Darwin discovered his findings without knowing about genetics at all. His analysis is based on precise…

Event News

International Laser Technology Congress AKL’14 from May 7 to 9, 2014 – save the date!

At the last AKL, over 600 participants took advantage of this platform for applied laser technology, located centrally in Europe, to catch up on the latest…

Life & Chemistry

Corked Microbottles: Next Step in Intelligent Drug Delivery

Sustained-release formulations that release drugs over longer periods of time are not the final step in the evolution of “intelligent” drug delivery systems….

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Smartphone Innovation: Mobile Diagnostics for Antibiotic Resistance

At BIOTECHNICA 2013, Fraunhofer FIT demonstrates the first system that integrates three different sensors in one platform. A nano potentiostat measures…

Event News

Tübingen – Neuroscientists meet near the Neckar

The international Bernstein Conference Computational Neuroscience 2013 will be held from September 25th – 27th at the University of Tübingen. At the…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Capture Fast Rhodium Catalysis in Action

The element rhodium is a powerful catalyst — a driver of chemical reactions — but is also one of the rarest and most expensive. In addition to its common use…

Health & Medicine

Molecular Pathway Revealed for Faster Antidepressant Effects

The reasons behind why it often takes people several weeks to feel the effect of newly prescribed antidepressants remains somewhat of a mystery – and likely, a…

Studies and Analyses

Earth's wobble 'fixes' dinner for marine organisms

The discovery of factors that control this nutrient, known as “fixed” nitrogen, gives researchers insight into how the ocean regulates its own life-support…

Earth Sciences

Warm Ocean Rapidly Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf from Below

The international team, led by NASA's emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, had to abort their…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Climate change to shift Kenya's breadbaskets

Kenyan farmers and agriculture officials need to prepare for a possible geographic shift in maize production as climate change threatens to make some areas of…

Earth Sciences

Cosmic Factory Discovered: Building Blocks of Life Unveiled

The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that when icy comets collide into a…

Earth Sciences

Achilles' heel of ice shelves is beneath the water, scientists reveal

Iceberg production and melting causes 2,800 cubic kilometres of ice to leave the Antarctic ice sheet every year. Most of this is replaced by snowfall but any…

Physics & Astronomy

Superconductivity to meet humanity's greatest challenges

This is according to a topical review `Superconductivity and the environment: a Roadmap', published today, 16 September, in IOP Publishing's journal…

Life & Chemistry

New Map Reveals Functional Genetic Variation in Humans

Understanding how each person's unique genome makes them more or less susceptible to disease is one of the biggest challenges in science today. Geneticists…

Trade Fair News

UBIFRANCE Showcases Aviation Innovations at Inter Airport 2013

Long-term forecasts indicate that the use of air transport is set to increase. Boosted by the growth of the aviation industry, various development projects in…

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