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Life & Chemistry

Ants have an exceptionally ‘hi-def’ sense of smell

The research team, led by Lawrence Zwiebel at Vanderbilt, recently completed the first full map of olfactory system that provides ants with their sense of…

Life & Chemistry

Study Reveals How Dissimilar Mates Boost Offspring Immunity

They prefer a dissimilar mate because this gives their young a more efficient immune system. This has been shown in a new study by researchers from Lund…

Trade Fair News

Innovative Structural Health Monitoring for Aircraft Components

The Darmstadt-based engineers have successfully managed to develop and manufacture large CFRP parts and test them up to a load of twenty metric tons, thus…

Trade Fair News

Energy-Autonomous Sensors Enhance Railway Freight Monitoring

Nevertheless, its market share has been going down continuously compared to road transport. Progress might be made with regard to overcoming this shortfall, if…

Earth Sciences

Giant 'balloon of magma' inflates under Santorini

The growth of this 'balloon' of magma has seen the surface of the island rise 8-14 centimetres during this period, a team led by Oxford University scientists…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Discoveries Unravel Causes of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis

Researchers have newly identified three genetic regions associated with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the most common autoimmune liver disease, increasing…

Health & Medicine

Targeted Therapies Shine in Large Lung Cancer Study Findings

“We found that almost 75 percent of the patients' cancers have mutations that can be targeted with existing drugs — drugs that are available commercially or…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Enhances Gene Protection with Innovative Molecules

The research, published in the journal Nature and involving academics from the University of Bristol, the Institut Jacques-Monod in France and Rockefeller…

Materials Sciences

Fraunhofer Partners with KH Chemicals on Single-Walled Nano Tubes

On August 16 Ivica Kolaric, head of the department “Functional materials” and head of Fraunhofer Office for Process Engineering of Functional Materials and…

Materials Sciences

Nano-Velcro: A New Way to Capture Heavy Metals Safely

Mercury, when dumped in lakes and rivers, accumulates in fish, and often ends up on our plates. A Swiss-American team of researchers led by Francesco Stellacci…

Health & Medicine

New Targets Identified for Treating Squamous Cell Lung Cancer

Squamous cell lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer, ranking second only to lung adenocarcinoma in the number of…

Event News

Join 1,200 Innovators at The EMBO Meeting 2012

The conference attracts more than 1,200 participants from Europe and worldwide. Together with keynote speeches, special lectures and twenty concurrent…

Health & Medicine

Novel Airborne Spray Targets Colds and Flu Effectively

University Hospitals Case Medical Center clinical researchers will present findings about a one-two punch to prevent colds and flu in San Francisco at the…

Environmental Conservation

Wolf mange part of nature's cycle

Following the restoration of gray wolves to Yellowstone in 1996, researchers collected blood from the animals to monitor parasite-induced disease and death….

Studies and Analyses

Forest Mortality and Climate Change: Key Insights for 2023

Forest mortality due to drought and heat stress is expected to increase due to climate change. Although research has focused on isolated incidents of forest…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unlocking Wind Power: Insights from Carnegie’s Latest Research

New research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude…

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