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Physics & Astronomy

The World´s Thinnest Ratchet – Publication in “Nature Nanotechnology”

Transistors are made out of diodes, which rectify electrical currents: however hard one pushes electrons in both directions, they flow only in one. Now an…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Crystal Formation Revealed by TU/e Researchers

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with researchers from Germany and the USA, are now presenting the missing piece. This…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Engineering cells for more efficient biofuel production

In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than…

CeBIT 2013

CeBIT 2013: Key Innovations for Smart Cities Unveiled

This year, once more over 4000 companies from 70 different countries will be showcasing some of the newest trends in information and communications technology…

Earth Sciences

Russian Fireball Largest Ever Detected by CTBTO’s Infrasound Sensors

Infrasound is low frequency sound with a range of less than 10 Hz. The blast was detected by 17 infrasound stations in the CTBTO’s network, which tracks atomic…

Studies and Analyses

Seals Sleep With Half Their Brain: New Study Insights

The study was published this month in the Journal of Neuroscience and was headed by scientists at UCLA and the University of Toronto. It identified the…

Communications Media

New Model Simplifies Ad Time Buying for Targeted Marketing

Now, a Michigan State University business scholar and colleagues have developed the most accurate model yet for targeting those fast-moving minnows. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Project HOP-X: Next-Gen Organic X-Ray Detectors Unveiled

This technology has the potential to substantially reduce production costs and also promises better image resolution than is possible with today's detectors….

Health & Medicine

Resistant Starch Diet: A Natural Defense Against Colorectal Cancer

As unlovely as that seems, once in the bowel this resistant starch does some important things, including decreasing bowel pH and transit time, and increasing…

Studies and Analyses

UCLA Study Links Untreated Depression to Shingles Vaccine Response

Reporting in the current online edition of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, Dr. Michael Irwin, a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for…

Life & Chemistry

New Compound Shows Promise Against Kidney Cancer

Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed a compound that holds much promise in the laboratory in fighting renal (kidney) cancer.Named…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford Tool Unlocks Insights into Mice Brain Activity

If you want to read a mouse's mind, it takes some fluorescent protein and a tiny microscope implanted in the rodent's head.Stanford scientists have…

Health & Medicine

Ectoine: Natural Compound Eases Lung Inflammation Struggles

From earlier studies it was known that Ectoin has the potential to prevent the induction of lung inflammation. In the recent issue of the European Respiratory…

Information Technology

Enhanced Video Surveillance for Safer Soccer Stadiums

The second-generation Vigilant Eye System can help achieve this aim. This enhanced product from Fraunhofer FIT uses synchronized fixed surveillance cameras and…

Materials Sciences

That's the way the droplets adhere

Now this longstanding problem has finally been licked, Varanasi says, in research he conducted with graduate student Adam Paxson that is described this week in…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Temporal Discounting: Insights from Priyanka Joshi

Many people tend to forego the larger reward and opt for the $120 now, a phenomenon known as temporal discounting. But research conducted by Priyanka Joshi and…

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