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Health & Medicine

Surge in Kids Eating Marijuana-Laced Foods Sparks Concern

A new study shows the relaxation of marijuana laws in Colorado has caused a significant spike in the number of young children treated for accidentally eating…

Process Engineering

Purifying Dairy Wastewater While Generating Electricity

The wastewater discharged from the production of dairy products such as cheese, quark and yoghurt typically contain lactose, proteins and milk fats as well as…

Materials Sciences

Turning Cement Into Metal: Discover the New Formula

In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur's time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid…

Health & Medicine

Faster Spinal Anesthesia for Cancer Patients: New Approach

For patients with uncontrolled pain from terminal cancer, a new approach to calculating initial dosage may allow a quicker start of spinal analgesia—and less…

Technology Offerings

Transforming Biogas Waste Into Biocoal: A Sustainable Innovation

The present invention permits to produce biocoal by charging coal particles with minerals obtained from the processing fluid of biogas plants. The invention is…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Heating And Cooling For Waterside Structures

Lausitz University of Applied Sciences invented a process for heating and/or cooling structures built on or near water. The novel process permits to reduce…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing Solar Cells with Local Electric Fields Innovation

The basic principle of all solar cells is the spatial separation of paired photoinduced charge carriers in a photoactive region. Common photovoltaic planar…

Technology Offerings

Axial Fractionator: New Machine for Natural Material Purification

This invention, by the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Bornim, Potsdam, features a machine for separating, classifying and purifying natural…

Physics & Astronomy

Detecting the Cosmic Gamma Ray Horizon: A Light Measure

How much light has been emitted by all galaxies since the cosmos began? After all, almost every photon (particle of light) from ultraviolet to far infrared…

Life & Chemistry

Rats’ Unique Double Vision Revealed by Innovative Cameras

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, using miniaturised high-speed cameras and high-speed behavioural tracking,…

Physics & Astronomy

Cold Ions Slide: Understanding the ‘Stop and Go’ Phenomenon

Things not always run smoothly. It may happen, actually, that when an object slides on another, the advancement may occur through a 'stop and go' series in the…

Health & Medicine

Youth With Type 2 Diabetes Face Higher Heart, Kidney Risks

“Once these kids have Type 2 diabetes, they seem to be at very high risk for early complications when compared to adults,” said Jane Lynch, M.D., professor of…

Awards Funding

FFG Funds €1 Million to Advance Structural Biology Research

On May 23rd, the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) extended the contract with the Center for Optimized Structural Studies (COSS) at the Max F. Perutz…

Event News

World Conference on Climate Impacts: A Global Perspective

For the first time ever, scientists and stakeholders from all over the world come together this week to have a look at the big impacts picture. They assemble…

Physics & Astronomy

Atomic-Scale Investigations Solve Key Puzzle of LED Efficiency

The celebrated efficiency and versatility of LEDs—and other solid-state technologies including laser diodes and solar photovoltaics—make them increasingly…

Life & Chemistry

Fastest Measurements Ever Made of Ion Channel Proteins

A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering has used miniaturized electronics to measure the activity of individual ion-channel proteins with temporal…

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