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NASA sees Typhoon Soulik's eye closed for 'renovations'

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Soulik on July 11 an instrument aboard noticed clouds filled the eye and additional data showed the eyewall was…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Terra Satellite Captures Chantal’s Weakening Image

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Chantal when it was…

Studies and Analyses

High Drug Use Among Street Children: A Hidden Epidemic

Drug use is common among street children, posing serious threats to both their health and their chances for reintegration into society. It's difficult to…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford’s Iron Injection Technique Tracks Stem Cell Transplants

The technique, described in a study to be published online July 12 in Radiology, relies on an imaging agent already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug…

Life & Chemistry

Glass Sponges Thrive Amid Retreating Antarctic Ice Shelves

As reported by biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in the cover story of the current issue of the…

Technology Offerings

Extreme Fast Sensor Enables High-Speed, Low-Noise Detection

The innovative and low cost circuit allows for low noise reading of one-or two-dimensional detector arrays with frame rates up to the MHz range.Further…

Technology Offerings

Discover the Energy-Independent Economic Gripper Innovation

Economic Gripper, independent of energy supply and control interfaces

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Technology Offerings

IL-22: A Key Marker for Bone Erosion in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Bone erosion prognosis in rheumatoid arthritis. Interleukin-22 (IL-22) has been identified as a prognostic marker for bone erosion associated with rheumatoid…

Environmental Conservation

Discovery of the 'Plastisphere' — a new marine ecological community

Their report in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology suggests that these novel habitats in the North Atlantic Ocean may harbor potential…

Physics & Astronomy

New System Traps Light Waves Using Innovative Modeling

The new system, devised through computer modeling and then demonstrated experimentally, pits light waves against light waves: It sets up two waves that have…

Environmental Conservation

Wind Power’s Minimal Impact on Greater Prairie Chickens

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that…

Health & Medicine

Vaccinated Children Provide Strong Protection for Seniors

Results of a new Vanderbilt study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and published in the July 11 issue of the New England…

Earth Sciences

Iowa Impact Crater Confirmed: Insights into Meteorite Collision

Based on the crater's size, scientists calculate that the region was likely hit by a meteorite roughly 250 meters in diameter about 500 million years ago, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Reveals True Color of Distant Azure Blue Planet

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have, for the first time, determined the true colour of a planet orbiting another star. If seen up close…

Life & Chemistry

PolyU scientist seeks to identify genes causing rare cancer

Working in collaboration with an international team of researchers, Dr Vincent Keng Wee-keong, Assistant Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SWiFT Commissioned to Study Wind Farm Optimization

The event featured speakers from the DOE’s Wind Program, Vestas Wind Systems, Sandia and Texas Tech.“The Energy Department’s wind testing facilities, including…

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