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Life & Chemistry

Breeding and Moulting: Energy Costs for Slaty Brush Finches

Moulting and breeding cost birds a lot of energy. So it would make sense for the animals to do these two things at separate times. Yet slaty brush finches…

Earth Sciences

Sulfate Aerosols: Less Effective in Cooling Climate Than Believed

Sulfur dioxide is as antagonist of greenhouse gases less effective than previously assumed. It forms sulfate aerosol particles in the air, which reflect…

Information Technology

BIG Project: Smart Data Solutions for Tomorrow’s Challenges

The project is necessary because today's systems and databases will soon no longer be able to handle the increasingly huge flood of information that is being…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers discover world's most extreme hearing animal

Humans are only capable of hearing sounds of 20kHz maximum, dropping to around 12-15kHz as we age, and even dolphins, known exponents of ultrasound, can't…

Trade Fair News

DuPont Highlights Lightweight Materials at Paris Air Show

Under the slogan “Together, we can fly farther, faster, longer and safer”, the company showcases DuPont™ Kalrez® and Vespel® high-performance parts, DuPont™…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Researchers Develop Thermal Invisibility Cloak Using Metamaterials

By means of special metamaterials, light and sound can be passed around objects. KIT researchers now succeeded in demonstrating that the same materials can…

Physics & Astronomy

First Biological Evidence of Supernova Found in Fossils

In fossil remnants of iron-loving bacteria, researchers of the Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe at the Technische Universitaet…

Trade Fair News

Digital Assembly Inspection: Enhancing Quality Control Efficiency

Manual assembly procedures are typical and assembly jobs change so steadily that automatic quality control has not been worthwhile. Novel software developed at…

Environmental Conservation

Decline in Snow Cover Threatens Northern Hemisphere Ecosystems

But in a warming world, winter and spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is in decline, putting at risk many plants and animals that depend on the space…

Power and Electrical Engineering

AFOSR-funded research key to revolutionary 'green' spacecraft propellant

In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant—one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally…

Health & Medicine

Duke Researchers Uncover Pathways in Breast Cancer Drug Resistance

“We've revealed multiple new signaling pathways that regulate cell death,” said Sally Kornbluth, PhD, vice dean of Basic Science and professor of Pharmacology…

Physics & Astronomy

…and now for the weather on Mars

Snowstorms lashing down at the northern hemisphere of Mars during the icy cold winters may be predicted several weeks in advance, say researchers from the…

Health & Medicine

Turning Alzheimer's fuzzy signals into high definition

Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have discovered how the predominant class of Alzheimer's pharmaceuticals might sharpen the brain's…

Environmental Conservation

New Robotic Instruments to Provide Real-Time Data on Gulf of Maine Red Tide

The results will add critical data to weekly real-time forecasts of New England red tide this year distributed to more than 150 coastal resource and fisheries…

Information Technology

UF launches HiPerGator, the state’s most powerful supercomputer

The HiPerGator supercomputer and recent tenfold increase in the size of the university’s data pipeline make UF one of the nation’s leading public universities…

Health & Medicine

Salk scientists find potential therapeutic target for Cushing's disease

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a protein that drives the formation of pituitary tumors in Cushing's disease, a…

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