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Social Sciences

Text Messages: Not Ruining Language, But Evolving It

English is becoming more important everywhere, including Switzerland. Indeed, so much so that purists here are concerned that the number of anglicisms in our…

Health & Medicine

First results of the study CLL11 – Optimized treatment of elderly patients with CLL possible

• First large, phase III randomized trial reporting final results on a patient population of significantly advanced age and with coexisting medical conditions…

Life & Chemistry

New Blueprint Reveals Blood Vessel Fusion Process

In this process, the blood vessels involved go through different phases of a common choreography, in which the splitting and the rearrangement of endothelial…

Technology Offerings

Innovative RAGE Inhibitors Target Liver Cancer Treatment

The receptor for advanced glycation-end prod-ucts (RAGE) has been shown to play a central role not only in acute or chronic inflammatory diseases but also in…

Technology Offerings

Pseudonymization of Patient Data: Enhancing Research Privacy

The usage of clinical patient data for research im-poses risks concerning privacy and informational self-determination of the patient. The gold standard for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Body Electric: Advancing Low-Cost Implantable Electronics

New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue…

Physics & Astronomy

'Long-awaited explanation' for mysterious effects in high-temperature superconductors

A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The…

Studies and Analyses

R&D Funding Trends: 2009-2010 Insights from NSF Report

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a report detailing that the amount companies spent on U.S. research and development (R&D) during 2010…

Environmental Conservation

New Hydrodynamic Model Enhances River Water Quality Insights

After 5 years of innovative research, Professor WANG Jianhua and his group, from the State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of the Water Cycle in…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights into Ionic Liquids for Sustainable Battery Development

The new framework may lead to the creation of cleaner, more sustainable, and nontoxic batteries, and other sources of chemical power. The research was…

Environmental Conservation

Biodiversity: Key To Sustaining Ecosystem Health

Think of it as patches on a quilt, says Erika Zavaleta, UCSC associate professor of environmental studies. Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants,…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s GOES-14 Captures Tropical Storm Andrea’s Impact

NOAA's GOES-14 satellite captured a visible image of Andrea at 2:31 p.m. EDT. The center of Andrea was near Fayetteville, North Carolina at the time, and the…

Earth Sciences

Climate Conditions Shape Amazon Rainforest Fire Risks

In the southern Amazon rainforest, fires below the forest treetops, or “understory fires,” have been hidden from view from NASA satellites that detect actively…

Life & Chemistry

Gladstone Scientists Map How Brain Cells Form Long-Term Memories

These findings, reported today in Nature Neuroscience, also offer newfound understanding as to what goes on at the molecular level when this process becomes…

Event News

Invitation: Mathematics for Industry and Society in the French Embassy Berlin, 04. – 05.07.2013

Mathematics has been and still is a tool box that can be used in a wide variety of applications. In the recent two decades though, mathematics has turned into…

Studies and Analyses

Emotions and Taste: How Feelings Influence Food Perception

How strongly do emotions impact on taste perception? This question has been explored by psychologist Petra Platte and her study group at the University of…

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