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Power and Electrical Engineering

Concentrated Solar Power with Thermal Energy Storage Can Help Utilities’ Bottom Line, Study Shows

The report found that CSP with a six-hour storage capacity can lower peak net loads when the sun isn’t shining, enough to add $35.80 per megawatt hour to the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Research Facility Boosts Offshore Energy Development

A new Department of Energy research facility could help bring the U.S. closer to generating power from the winds and waters along America's coasts and help…

Studies and Analyses

How Global Warming Benefits Ratsnakes Across Their Range

“Ratsnakes are a species with a broad geographic range so we could use latitude as a surrogate for climate change,” Weatherhead said. “What are ratsnakes in…

Physics & Astronomy

Counting the twists in a helical light beam

At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Response Marker Could Accelerate Lung Cancer Trials

A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research proposes a possible waypoint on the way to benefit,…

Studies and Analyses

Intensive Therapy Boosts Aphasia Recovery in Older Adults

After six weeks of intensive and specific language therapy, seniors with aphasia demonstrated better performance at naming objects along with better cognitive…

Life & Chemistry

Inexpensive Benchtop Method for Selecting Cells Unveiled

The technique, which is described in a recent issue of the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, makes use of the tight binding of two…

Environmental Conservation

Pythons, lionfish and now willow invade Florida's waterways

Biologists at the University of Central Florida recently completed a study that shows this slender tree once used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes,…

Life & Chemistry

Dark Matter Made Visible Before the Final Cut

The new study reveals snippets of information contained in dark matter that can alter the way a gene is assembled.“These small sequences of genetic information…

Health & Medicine

Simulated Mars Mission Reveals Body’s Sodium Rhythms

Titze, now an associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, wanted to explore long-term sodium balance in humans. He didn’t believe the textbook…

Physics & Astronomy

Testing Einstein's E=mc2 in Outer Space

With the first explosions of atomic bombs, the world became witness to one of the most important and consequential principles in physics: Energy and mass,…

Physics & Astronomy

First Characterization of Pyroelectric Nanomaterials Unveiled

“Controlling and manipulating heat for applications such as waste heat energy harvesting, integrated cooling technologies, electron emission, and related…

Health & Medicine

Weight Counseling Declines Amid Soaring Obesity Rates

More than 145 million adult Americans are overweight or obese.Researchers analyzed data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for the years…

Physics & Astronomy

First Milky Way “Bone” Structure Discovered by Astronomers

Astronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a “bone.””This is the first time we've seen…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals Channel Protein’s Role in Brain Learning Flexibility

The channel protein Pannexin1 keeps nerve cells flexible and thus the brain receptive for new knowledge. Together with colleagues from Canada and the U.S.,…

Health & Medicine

Two-Drug Combo Shows Promise Against Deadly Thyroid Cancer

The two drugs together resulted in greater anti-cancer activity in ATC than either drug alone, says lead researcher Keith Bible, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic…

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