<strong>Background</strong><br>
Mouth guards and mouth pieces are widely used in many fields of applica-tions. Mouth guards can prevent or reduce injury to…
<strong>Background</strong><br>
Photoautotrophic organisms use solar radiation to carry out metabolic processes. Phototrophs store the produced energy as…
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Non-volatile Flash memories can store data for years without refreshing, but write information about 1000 times slower…
<strong>Technology</strong><br>
The invention provides techniques for indexing and searching in databases using ontologies. Categories or individual documents…
<strong>Background</strong><br>
In central air handling units cooling and dehumidifying of the air usually takes place using chilled water cooling coils with…
<strong>Background</strong><br>
Compact state of the art 3R-regeneration systems for an optical phase-coded data signal are not capable of enhancing the…
<strong>Technology</strong><br>
A new exploration method for mobile robots is especially suitable for home and office environments. The robot also provides a…
<strong>Technology</strong><br>
High-power femtosecond (fs) laser pulses have been found to propagate in transparent media and even in the atmosphere as thin…
At the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) in Gainesville, Fla., entomologist Sandra Allan…
Global climate models abound. What is harder to pin down, however, is how a warmer global temperature might affect any specific region on Earth.Dr. Marco…
Bioengineers at Harvard have developed a gel-based sponge that can be molded to any shape, loaded with drugs or stem cells, compressed to a fraction of its…
Titan replaced the XT5 Jaguar at ORNL last month. Jaguar ranked as the world’s fastest computer on the Top500 lists in November 2009 and June 2010, and now…
The spontaneous self-assembly of nanostructures composed of multiple elements paves the way toward materials that could improve a range of energy efficient…
Scientists developed the imaging tool in single living cells by fusing a protein defining the cells’ cyclical behavior to a yellow fluorescent protein that…
Until now, researchers had never investigated whether and to what extent environmental contaminants also affect allergy-relevant stem cells. For the first time…
Today, the Nuevo León state ministry of sustainable development, with support from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), launched a revamped air…