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Information Technology

Battery-Free Wireless Devices: A New Communication Breakthrough

University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on…

Life & Chemistry

Urgent! How genes tell cellular construction crews, 'Read me now!'

When egg and sperm combine, the new embryo bustles with activity. Its cells multiply so rapidly they largely ignore their DNA, other than to copy it and to…

Earth Sciences

NASA Identifies Heavy Rainfall in South China Sea's Typhoon Utor

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite passed over Utor on August 12, 2013 at 0621 UTC/2:21 a.m. EDT as it was exiting the Philippines…

Life & Chemistry

Explosive Nanotechnology: Advancements in Fuel and Oxidizers

Whether they are rocket propellants or fireworks, all explosives contain a fuel and an oxidizing agent. Sometimes both are in the same molecule, like in TNT;…

Life & Chemistry

Lymph Nodes with Location Memory: Insights into Tregs

Regulatory T cells (or “Tregs” for short) play a central role in the human immune system: They guide all of the other immune cells and make sure they are…

Science Education

Leuphana’s Focus on Personalized Online Teaching Excellence

In response to the roaring success of their new “Digital School”, Leuphana University of Lüneburg will strive to focus on intensity and quality teaching for…

Health & Medicine

New Compound Prevents First Steps of Fungal Infection

Targeting serious and sometimes deadly fungal infections, a team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and the University of Massachusetts…

Physics & Astronomy

High-Angle Helix: Key to Bacteria’s Swimming Efficiency

Research engineers at Brown University have figured out why. It's the angle of the coil that matters. Findings are reported in Physical Review Letters. A…

Environmental Conservation

Ecosystems Shift Before Species Decline, Study Reveals

Communities in nature are likely to be a lot more sensitive to change than previously thought, according to a new study at Rice University.The study, which…

Physics & Astronomy

Asymmetrical Insights in Topological Insulators Unveiled

New research shows that a class of materials being eyed for the next generation of computers behaves asymmetrically at the sub-atomic level. This research is a…

Studies and Analyses

Disney Researchers Use AI to Enhance Soccer Coaching Strategy

Investigators at Disney Research, Pittsburgh, are applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of professional soccer and, in one application of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Slow Light in Liquid Crystal Matrix Breakthrough

Light traveling in a vacuum is the Universe’s ultimate speed demon, racing along at approximately 300,000 kilometers per second. Now scientists have found an…

Materials Sciences

New Insights on Oxide Films from ORNL Research Findings

Researchers at the Department of Energy lab learned that key surface properties of complex oxide films are unaffected by reduced levels of oxygen during…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Less Is More: Insights from Animal Science Research

Animal sciences researcher Phil Cardoso said that this line of research was the result of an “accident.” Students in animal sciences professor James Drackley's…

Studies and Analyses

Testosterone Spikes in Tsimane Men: UCSB Study Insights

Studying short-term spikes in the testosterone levels of Tsimane men, UC Santa Barbara anthropologists Ben Trumble and Michael Gurven have found that the act…

Health & Medicine

New Data Supports Watchful Waiting for Prostate Cancer Screening

Researchers found that after the introduction of widespread prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, the proportion of patients diagnosed with advanced-stage…

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