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Fraunhofer IDMT Unveils Innovative Sound Tools at IBC 2013

Whether it is to make high-quality recordings, reproduce perfect 3D sound over headphones, or analyze digital content – the tools developed by Fraunhofer IDMT…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Refrigerated Trucks to Keep Their Cool Thanks to Fuel Cell Technology

Grocery merchants in Texas, California and New York will soon have ice cream, frozen foods and fresh produce delivered by tractor trailers whose refrigeration…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Study Forecasts Future Water Levels of Crucial Agricultural Aquifer

Those findings are part of a recently published study by David Steward, professor of civil engineering, and colleagues at Kansas State University. The study…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Reveals Origins of the Genetic Code Insights

Their findings appear in the journal PLOS ONE.The researchers focused on aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, enzymes that “read” the genetic information embedded in…

Life & Chemistry

How pufferfish meditate magnesium to survive

The gene mechanism responsible for altering magnesium ion secretion in fish is uncovered by scientists at Tokyo Tech. The details are described in the August…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Update: Unlikely To Break Records, But Continuing Downward Trend

While the ice will continue to shrink until around mid-September, it is unlikely that this year’s summer low will break a new record. Still, this year’s melt…

Health & Medicine

Biphasic Electrical Stimulation: New Hope for Spinal Cord Injury

The article describing their studies will be published in the August 2013 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine. The scientists believe that their…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers uncover new biological target for combating Parkinson's disease

Researchers at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have brought new clarity to the picture of what goes awry in the brain during Parkinson's disease and identified a…

Life & Chemistry

Carbon-Sequestering Ocean Plants Adapt to Climate Change Challenges

The study stands in contrast to earlier studies suggesting that coccolithophores would fail to build strong shells in acidic waters. The world's oceans are…

Earth Sciences

Insight into marine life's ability to adapt to climate change

Researchers have discovered that some species of polychaete worms are able to modify their metabolic rates to better cope with and thrive in waters high in…

Earth Sciences

Mercury levels in Pacific fish likely to rise in coming decades

Using isotopic measurement techniques developed at U-M, the researchers determined that up to 80 percent of the toxic form of mercury, called methylmercury,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Installs First Offshore Platform in North Sea

Siemens has installed the HelWin1 offshore platform in the North Sea, marking the successful completion of a significant stage in German grid connection…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Errors Linked to Cystic Fibrosis Uncovered

Of the over 1,900 errors already reported in the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF), it is unclear how many of them actually contribute to the inherited…

Life & Chemistry

Leicester researchers discover a potential molecular defence against Huntington's disease

Leicester geneticists have discovered a potential defence against Huntington's disease – a fatal neurodegenerative disorder which currently has no cure.The…

Studies and Analyses

Cocaine Use Triggers New Brain Structures In Mice Study

Mice given cocaine showed rapid growth in new brain structures associated with learning and memory, according to a research team from the Ernest Gallo Clinic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Opportunity for Licensees: S3L-Inverter from Constance is being presented at EPE’13 in Lille

On 5 September 2013, Professor Manfred Gekeler will present his novel so-called Soft Switching Three Level (S3L) Inverter at the European Conference on Power…

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