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Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanowire Solar Cells Boost Energy Efficiency Limit

Due to some unique physical light absorption properties of nanowires, the limit of how much energy we can utilize from the sun's rays is higher than previous…

Life & Chemistry

Study finds molecular 'signature' for rapidly increasing form of esophageal cancer

The first extensive probe of the DNA of these esophageal adenocarcinomas (EACs) has revealed that many share a distinctive mix-up of letters of the genetic…

Life & Chemistry

Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells Offer New Hope for Gut Repair

The study, funded by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, investigated a new way to treat necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), where severe…

Life & Chemistry

Tracking Animal-to-Human MRSA Transmission Through Sequencing

The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, confirm animal-to-human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA),…

Hannover Messe

One-Step Process for Enhanced Conducting Paths in Devices

In these devices, structures with large conducting paths of several millimeters in size alternate with very small structures of several micro- or nanometers in…

Earth Sciences

Rutile: Uncovering Rock History Through Tiny Grains

Rutile is used in ceramics and paints, but is particularly useful for finding out about the history of a rock.Where mineral deposits are found, rutile is often…

Earth Sciences

Improving Climate Models for Accurate Weather Predictions

Climate models are the only means to predict future changes in climate and weather.“It is therefore extremely important that we investigate global climate…

Life & Chemistry

Lab-on-a-Chip: Affordable Multi-Layer Nano-Biosystems Innovation

These permit biological and chemical analyses to be carried out more swiftly and easily. Furthermore these systems can be used to conduct diagnostic tests,…

Health & Medicine

Hand Surgery Boosts Life Quality for Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Despite this, the operation is not frequently performed, either in Sweden or elsewhere. Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Losing Wetlands: Impact of Crop Farming on Climate Resilience

Research published in BioMed Central's journal Agriculture & Food Security demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall,…

Health & Medicine

Parkinsons' drug helps older people to make decisions

The study, published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, also describes changes in the patterns of brain activity of adults in their seventies that help…

Event News

Current State of Battery Research: Key Insights and Trends

New deadline for abstract submission: Abstracts for presentations can be submitted until April 15, 2013! Present day’s and tomorrow’s challenges to battery…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Sequence Coordinates DNA-Packaging Protein Synthesis

Seven years ago, Dr. Joe Gall of the Carnegie Institute in Baltimore, Md. and coworkers noticed an aggregation of molecules along a a block of genome that…

Life & Chemistry

UT MD Anderson Scientists Explore Actin’s Nuclear Role

A key building block of life, actin is one of the most abundant and highly conserved proteins in eukaryotic cells. First discovered in muscle cells more than…

Health & Medicine

New urgency in battle against 'bound legs' disease

The harm done by konzo – a disease overshadowed by the war and drought it tends to accompany – goes beyond its devastating physical effects to impair…

Environmental Conservation

Fossil Bird Study on Extinction Patterns Could Help Today’s Conservation Efforts

Although many birds perished or became displaced during a mass extinction event following the first arrival of humans to the Caribbean islands, fossil evidence…

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