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Health & Medicine

New therapy target for kids' fever-induced seizures

Fever-induced childhood seizures, known as febrile seizures, can be terrifying for parents to witness. The full-body convulsions, which mostly affect children…

Earth Sciences

Landsat Satellite: Reflecting on El Paso and New Beginnings

For more than 40 years, Landsat satellites have collected millions of images of this region and others worldwide. And as Landsat 8 begins its new mission,…

Health & Medicine

Timed Walks After Meals May Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk

A fifteen minute walk after each meal appears to help older people regulate blood sugar levels and could reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes,…

Physics & Astronomy

Data Highway: Advancing Quantum Information Storage

Now, they have shown that their technique enables storage of quantum information over a sufficiently long period of time to realize global quantum networks…

Health & Medicine

Nanotechnology helps track and improve drug action in pancreatic cancer

In real time and in three dimensions, these technologies can show us how cancers spread and how active cancer cells respond to a particular drug. They can also…

Science Education

EU Funds INP Greifswald for Research Infrastructure Boost

The funds will in particular focus on the research infrastructure, the recruitment of top-class researchers as well as the cooperation with experts on an…

Awards Funding

Open Call: Apply for the Innovation Award in Laser Technology

The call for proposals is open. Closing date for applications is January 17,2014. Application instructions and information for online submission can be…

Studies and Analyses

Future Manufacturing: Insights from Fraunhofer IAO Study

Fraunhofer IAO is laying the foundations for building the 4th industrial revolution. In its study entitled “Manufacturing Activities of the Future – Industry…

Architecture & Construction

Explore the Future of Hospitality at Hotel Schani Vienna

Together with its partners in the FutureHotel joint research project, Fraunhofer IAO is busy building a hotel of the future.The new Hotel Schani in Vienna is…

Studies and Analyses

Interfaces for tomorrow’s manufacturing

Fraunhofer IAO has looked into the effects that developments in the field of manufacturing will have on the interface between humans and technology. The study…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Lipid Innovations: Key Signaling Molecules Uncovered

In the human body, lipids do not only serve as energy stores and structural elements, but they are also important signaling molecules. Disruptions of lipid…

Power and Electrical Engineering

World's First Large(Wafer)-Scale Production of III-V Semiconductor Nanowire

The research team demonstrated a novel method to epitaxially synthesize structurally and compositionally homogeneous and spatially uniform ternary InAsyP1-y…

Materials Sciences

Ames Lab Unveils New Family of Quasicrystals

Quasicrystalline materials may be found close to crystalline phases that contain similar atomic motifs, called crystalline approximants. And just like fishing…

Life & Chemistry

Testing Artificial Photosynthesis to Combat Rising CO2 Levels

With the daily mean concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide having reached 400 parts-per-million for the first time in human history, the need for…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Tropical Storm Yagi in Western Pacific

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured the rate rain was falling within Tropical Storm Yagi on…

Physics & Astronomy

UCI scientists size up universe’s most lightweight dwarf galaxy

The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter…

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