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Physics & Astronomy

NREL Unveils Self-Assembling Quantum Dots Breakthrough

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other labs have demonstrated a process whereby quantum dots can…

Studies and Analyses

Magnet Hospitals Cut Mortality Rates Through Better Staffing

Lower mortality and other improved patient outcomes achieved at designated “Magnet hospitals” are explained partly—but not completely—by better nurse staffing,…

Information Technology

Softening steel problem expands computer model applications

When steel is too hard it becomes brittle, so the plant ended up getting new tubing. However, Deibler said KCP needed a backup in case it couldn’t find…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Captures Wind Shear Impact on Cyclone Imelda

NASA's Aqua satellite provided an image of Imelda that showed wind shear that has been hammering the storm, had pushed the bulk of the storm's precipitation…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Microbatteries: Powering the Future of Electronics

Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the new microbatteries out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new…

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering The Most Fertile Galaxies In The Universe

The precise position measurements clear up a mystery about the observed productivity of these objects. They also show that previous studies of these objects…

Physics & Astronomy

Dying Supergiant Stars Linked to Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

The astronomers discussed their findings Tuesday at the 2013 Huntsville Gamma-ray Burst Symposium in Nashville, Tenn., a meeting sponsored in part by the…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves

As the magnetosphere plows through space, it sets up a standing bow wave or bow shock, much like that in front of a moving ship. Just in front of this bow wave…

Studies and Analyses

Low Testosterone Affects 84% of Lung Cancer Patients on Crizotinib

A previous study by the University of Colorado Cancer Center reported the common side effect of low testosterone in men treated with the recently approved lung…

Studies and Analyses

Why Some Stress Can Be Beneficial for Your Health

“You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not,” said Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of…

Trade Fair News

New Vacuum Coating Processes Unveiled at SVC TechCon 2013

The Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP will present from 22 – 24 April 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, new and highly…

Health & Medicine

CT and Serum LDH: Key Survival Predictors in Melanoma

With the hope of predicting patient survival, researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and at the Ohio State University…

Studies and Analyses

Reducing Radiation Dose in Abdominal CT: A Study Insight

“We conducted a study to quantify dose reduction, comparing two years' worth of data and 11,458 abdomen and pelvic CT exams,” said Dr. Jonas Rydberg, lead…

Health & Medicine

Radiation Dose Impacts Lesion Size on Chest CT Scans

The study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, used a 3D image processing tool to quantitatively measure the volume of the lymph nodes and…

Earth Sciences

Forecasting Earthquakes in Salt Lake Valley: New Innovations

Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone, has been the site of repeated surface-faulting…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Relativistic Tunneling in Intense Laser Fields

This is the result of their theoretical study on an electron that tunnels out of an atom in an intense laser field while being accelerated up near to the speed…

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