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New Memory Cell Innovation Enhances Data Storage Speed

<strong>Background</strong><br>

Computer data storage can be classified into volatile and non-volatile storage. Volatile memories like dynamic random access…

Technology Offerings

New Memory Cell Innovation Enhances Data Storage Speed

</a><strong>Background</strong><br>

Non-volatile Flash memories can store data for years without refreshing, but write information about 1000 times slower…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer ISE Boosts Solar Thermal System Research Efforts

The solar thermal research area at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE develops not only main system components like collectors, storage and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Lawrence Livermore researchers find wind power not enough to affect global climate

That is the conclusion of a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist and collaborators who studied the geophysical limits to global wind power…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Predicting Wave Power: A New Frontier for Marine Energy

In the search for alternative energy, scientists have focused on the sun and the wind. There is also tremendous potential in harnessing the power of the…

Awards Funding

British Geneticist Wins £500K Prize for Innovative Research

750.000 Swiss Francs (approx. EUR 620.000, USD 790.000, GBP 500.000) for each of the four subjects.Half of the amount must be destined by the winners to…

Studies and Analyses

Heavy Drinking Linked to Earlier Stroke Risk

“Heavy drinking has been consistently identified as a risk factor for this type of stroke, which is caused by bleeding in the brain rather than a blood clot,”…

Health & Medicine

Lights Out? The Dangers of Exposure to Light at Night

A panel of world experts discussed “Light Pollution and its Ecophysiological Consequences” and shed light on the extent of the dangers and harm that night-time…

Earth Sciences

Salt Seeds Clouds: Unraveling Amazon’s Atmospheric Mystery

As the sun rises, clouds appear and float across the forest canopy … but where do they come from? Water vapor needs soluble particles to condense on. Airborne…

Studies and Analyses

New Cusk-Eels Discovered: Insights for Environmental Research

The 60-year study appearing Tuesday in the Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin provides a comprehensive taxonomic revision of one of the least-studied…

Health & Medicine

Pain Drug Offers Hope Against Resistant Tuberculosis

An off-patent anti-inflammatory drug that costs around two cents for a daily dose in developing countries has been found by researchers at Weill Cornell…

Earth Sciences

Forest Greenness Linked to Snowpack in Western U.S. Study

Results of a new study tie forest “greenness” in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack extent.The results show that mid-elevation…

Earth Sciences

NASA Sees Tropical Storm Leslie and Hurricane Michael in Atlantic

Images of each storm were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS instrument that flies onboard both the Aqua and Terra…

Life & Chemistry

&#039;Humanized&#039; mice developed at OHSU enable malaria research breakthrough at Seattle BioMed

A novel human liver-chimeric mouse model developed at Oregon Health & Science University and Yecuris Corporation has made possible a research breakthrough at…

Studies and Analyses

Compound Derived From a Mushroom Lengthens Survival Time in Dogs With Cancer, Penn Vet Study Finds

The study was conducted by two University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine faculty. Dorothy Cimino Brown is professor and chair of the Department…

Health & Medicine

LifeSkills Training Empowers Teens to Manage Anger Effectively

Health and physical education teachers taught anger and stress management to 86 ninth graders in Augusta, Ga., and found their ability to control anger…

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