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Machine Engineering

Certified Cold Climate Safety Brake for Wind Power Plants

Several manufacturers present products for applications in colder regions as “Cold Climate” versions (CCV). But the CCV marking on a device does not…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Fuel Sensors Enhance Vehicle Fuel Type Detection

The spontaneous emission of light out of an excited state of an electron is called fluorescence. The fluorescence of a molecule is a multidimensional parameter…

Trade Fair News

France Highlights Cloud Innovations at Cloud World Forum 2013

These companies will showcase their proven expertise in cloud solutions, covering both products and services, at the trade show for the cloud-computing sector.The French participants at Cloud World Forum are looking to develop partnerships in the UK and will be available for one-to-one business meetings on the French Pavilion, Stand 950, from 26 to 27 June….

Studies and Analyses

Puberty Drinking Linked to Future Alcohol Risks

It is exactly during this period that substances like alcohol may induce the most destructive and also persistent effects on the still developing brain, which…

Earth Sciences

New Spiny Shark Species Discovered in 408-Million-Year-Old Fossil

In the journal 'Geodiversitas', a research team led by the University of Valencia describes a new species of spiny shark (Acanthodii), a primitive type of fish…

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Target Identified for Deadly Leukemia in Singapore

The study, published in the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the result of a long-standing collaboration…

Studies and Analyses

Smartphones and Sleep: Mayo Clinic Study Reveals New Insights

Smartphones and tablets can make for sleep-disrupting bedfellows. One cause is believed to be the bright light-emitting diodes that allow the use of mobile…

Physics & Astronomy

Dense Hydrogen: New Insights from Carnegie Scientists

New work from Carnegie scientists using intense infrared radiation shines new light on this fundamental material at extreme pressures and reveals the details…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Swift Produces Best Ultraviolet Maps of the Nearest Galaxies

“We took thousands of images and assembled them into seamless portraits of the main body of each galaxy, resulting in the highest-resolution surveys of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Rare Stellar Alignment Sparks New Planet-Hunting Opportunities

The opportunities will occur in October 2014 and February 2016 when Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to our sun, passes in front of two other stars….

Health & Medicine

Cooler Temperatures Make Mosquitoes More Virus-Prone

Urban epidemics resulting from viral diseases, such as West Nile fever and chikungunya fever, are transmitted by infected mosquitoes. According to Virginia…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Doubling Land Use Intensity: Human Impact on NPP Explained

The share of NPP appropriated by humans (HANPP) through agriculture and forestry, bioenergy production, and vegetation fires doubled over the course of the…

Earth Sciences

FSU’s 2013 North Atlantic Hurricane Forecast Predicts Above-Average Season

Tim LaRow, associate research scientist at COAPS, and his colleagues released their fifth annual Atlantic hurricane season forecast today. Hurricane season…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Power Grid Getting Smarter with Big Battery in Salem

Portland General Electric’s 5-megawatt, lithium-ion energy storage system was shared with the public today at the utility’s Salem Smart Power Center in South…

Physics & Astronomy

A Meteorite Explodes on the Moon: Q&A with a Smithsonian Geophysicist

Occurring March 17, it was the biggest explosion in the 8-year history of NASA’s Lunar Impact Monitoring program that shoots continual video of the moon…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Student-Driven Project Aims to Help Farmers and Environment

That’s the goal of a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) student-driven project in the Lake Guntersville, Ala., watershed that’s using NASA geospatial…

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