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Bicycle Infrastructure Cuts Cycling Injury Risk by 50%: UBC Study

The study, published today in the American Journal of Public Health, analyzed the cause of 690 cycling injuries in Vancouver and Toronto from 2008 to 2009 and…

Health & Medicine

Self-Assembled Nanoparticles Transform Cancer Treatment

More specifically, there has been considerable attention around near-infrared (NIR) light as an ideal method to stimulate nanoparticles from outside the body….

Trade Fair News

DuPont’s Collaborative Innovation Boosts Performance and Cuts Costs

The featured jounce bumper is part of a vehicle’s shock-absorber system designed to absorb impact and dampen noise, vibration and harshness (NVH). DuPont,…

Environmental Conservation

Connecting Wildlife Sanctuaries Beyond Greenbelts

We live in a human-dominated world. For many of our fellow creatures, this means a fragmented world, as human conduits to friends, family, and resources sever…

Studies and Analyses

Solar Power Adoption: How Clusters Influence Communities

The researchers studied clusters of solar installations throughout California from January 2001 to December 2011 and found that residents of a particular zip…

Physics & Astronomy

Modeling Football Hits: Understanding Helmet Impact on Brain

Hard collisions can lead to player concussions, but the physics of how the impact of a helmet hit transfers to the brain are not well understood. A research…

Earth Sciences

Dinosaur-era acoustics: Global warming may give oceans the 'sound' of the Cretaceous

The reason for this surprising communication upgrade is that whales vocalize in the low-frequency sound range, typically less than 200 hertz, and the new…

Studies and Analyses

Antidepressants and Stroke Risk: What New Research Reveals

For the research, scientists analyzed all of the studies that have looked at antidepressant use and stroke, which included 16 studies with more than 500,000…

Physics & Astronomy

How Short Booms Affect Focus: Insights for Architects

Noise can be distracting, especially to a person trying to concentrate on a difficult task. Studying annoying noises helps architects design better building…

Earth Sciences

World's largest subwoofer: Earthquakes 'pump' ground to produce infrasound

“It's basically like a loudspeaker,” said Stephen Arrowsmith, a researcher with the Geophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Santa Fe, N.M., who…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Atom Optics Breakthrough for Detecting the Imperceptible

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., Stanford University in California, and AOSense, Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif.,…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s TRMM Satellite Tracks Wind Shear Impact on Maria

On Oct. 18 at 0845 UTC (4:45 a.m. EDT), NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite saw that rain associated with Tropical Storm Maria was…

Information Technology

World Health Summit: Instantaneous Genome Analysis Unveiled

Originally developed for corporate software and honored with the 2012 German Innovation prize, In-Memory Technology will also help in the future to analyze and…

Physics & Astronomy

Poetry in Motion: Rare Polar Ring Galaxy Captured in New Image

These words, which open Shelley’s poem “When the Lamp is Shattered,” employ visions of nature to symbolize life in decay and rebirth. It's as if he had somehow…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM satellite sees very heavy rains in fading Tropical Storm Prapiroon

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured rainfall data on Prapiroon twice on Oct. 18 when it passed overhead. The first orbit was…

Information Technology

International Research Boosts Power Line Communication Systems

Now, for the first time, a research agreement has been concluded with a Chinese partner, China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI). As part of this…

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