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Siemens Showcases Transport Innovation at Logi 2013 Munich

From June 4 to 7, 2013, the company will present its portfolio for integrated transport and logistics chains for transporting goods quickly, efficiently and…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling Plant Defense Pathway: New Insights for Breeding

This finally answers a question that has been haunting several plant scientists around the world for many years. The findings provide new leads for breeding…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Transportation Fuels From Woody Biomass Promising Way to Reduce Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency's standard for emissions from wood basedtransportation fuels requires a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions…

Life & Chemistry

Team Discover the Origin of the Turtle Shell

Led by Tyler Lyson of Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution, the researchers maintain that a 260-million-year-old reptile from South Africa,…

Automotive Engineering

New Speaker System for Cars Creates Separate “Audio Zones” for Front and Rear Seats

A new approach achieves independent listening zones within a car by using small, modified speakers to produce directional sound fields and a signal processing…

Earth Sciences

Mapping Sea Salt From Orbit: Building Better Ocean and Climate Models

A new respect is at hand, though – at least among scientists. New satellite data about the flow of salt through the world's oceans is providing the basis for…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Researchers Focus on Dairy’s Carbon Footprint

Researchers at the University of Arkansas are attempting to help the U.S. dairy industry decrease its carbon footprint as concentrations of carbon dioxide in…

Event News

Enhancing Multimedia Quality: Insights from Key Conference

Amongst other things, they will explore how the quality experienced during the consumption of media can be made measurable. New technologies and products will…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Shines in Treating Rare Uveal Melanoma

The findings are potentially practice-changing for a historically “untreatable disease.” Though uveal melanoma is rare — there are only 2,500 cases diagnosed…

Health & Medicine

New Hope for Treatment-Resistant Colorectal Cancer Patients

Among cancers that develop resistance to anti-EGFR therapy, some showed overexpression of a gene called MET, according to a study published in the June issue…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Boosts High-Quality DNA Production for Nanotech & Drugs

The new method, which is described in the scientific periodical Nature Methods, can be of value to both DNA nanotechnology and the development of drugs…

Studies and Analyses

Bevacizumab Shows No Benefit for Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma

The study was presented today on the plenary session of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 Annual Meeting by Mark Gilbert, M.D., professor in MD…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Genetic Markers for Better Chocolate Production

Researchers have utilised high quality DNA sequences to demonstrate the usefulness and quality of the sequence to identify genetic markers that can lead to…

Health & Medicine

Key Growth Factor Boosts Hair Follicle Regeneration in Wound Healing

Researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have determined the role of a key growth factor, found in skin cells of…

Health & Medicine

Stress-Related Illness in Middle-Aged Women: Key Findings

Within the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy have followed around 1,500 women since…

Studies and Analyses

Facebook Recommendations Boost Online Retail Sales Potential

When online retailers display customer recommendations next to their product descriptions, it can significantly increase the sales of these. This is the…

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