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Earth Sciences

Measuring Aurora Heights with Digital SLRs: A New Method

Yet, Ryuho Kataoka from the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, came up with an idea for a new method to measure the height of aurora…

Corporate News

3D street art: Siemens Inspiro is going underground

London’s Mayor Boris Johnson and Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens’ Infrastructure & Cities Sector, gladly answered the artists’ call to become a living part of…

Studies and Analyses

U-M Technical Reports Examine Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan

The studies, totaling nearly 200 pages, examine seven critical topics related to the use of hydraulic fracturing in Michigan, with an emphasis on high-volume…

Physics & Astronomy

Powerful Jets Blowing Material Out of Galaxy

This process, they said, is limiting the growth of the black hole and the rate of star formation in the galaxy, and thus is a key to understanding how galaxies…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Unveil Quasar’s Mirage in Milky Way Gas Cloud

Bonn astronomers discover how the image of a distant quasar splits into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as early as in the 1970s, but the first evidence for one now has come from observations performed with the telescope array VLBA and analysed in the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy….

Studies and Analyses

Flexible Audit Committee Standards Boost Firm Value, Study Finds

Independent, financially-literate audit committees lead to higher firm values and less diversion of resources by management, shows a new study by researchers…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Tool Enhances Study of Behavior and Cell Function

This powerful genetic tool – Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs – allows scientists to selectively, rapidly, reversibly, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Interstellar Winds Shift Direction: Mapping Our Solar System

The finding helps scientists map our location within the Milky Way galaxy and is crucial for understanding our place in the cosmos through the vast sweep of…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Beacons Illuminate Cardiac Muscle Repair Advances

That’s a goal for many cardiology researchers working with stem cells. Having a pure population of cardiac muscle cells is essential for avoiding tumor…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

UCSB Research Links Landscape Simplification to Insecticide Use

While there was a positive relationship in 2007 –– more simplified landscapes received more insecticides –– it is absent or reversed in all previous years. The…

Health & Medicine

PolyU expert studies the health effects of using portable electronic devices

The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association have jointly conducted a…

Information Technology

A*STAR IHPC and IDA Launch Cloud Solutions for Local ICT Firms

A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) inked an agreement on the 28th of August to…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Data Shows a Very Active Tropical Atlantic, Gabrielle Weakens

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a view of Gabrielle, an unnamed system east of it, and Systems 99L and 98L on Sept. 5 at 10:45 a.m. EDT. NOAA's GOES-East…

Health & Medicine

UCLA Researchers Uncover New Form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

The discovery of this new condition, called Post-Diverticulitis Irritable Bowel Syndrome (PDV-IBS), validates the irritable bowel symptoms that many patients…

Physics & Astronomy

Coldest Brown Dwarfs Challenge Definitions of Stars and Planets

A new study shows that while these brown dwarfs, sometimes called failed stars, are indeed the coldest known free-floating celestial bodies, they are warmer…

Physics & Astronomy

IBEX Spacecraft Tracks Interstellar Wind Changes Impacting Earth

Interstellar atoms flow past the Earth as the solar system passes through the surrounding interstellar cloud at 23 kilometers per second (50,000 miles per…

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