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Environmental Conservation

Seabed Sonar Innovates Marine Energy Impact Measurement

Renewable energy from tidal currents can be generated using turbines in the tidal flow, and wave energy can be captured in a number of different ways. FLOWBEC…

Earth Sciences

Climate Change May Lead to Fewer — But More Violent — Thunderstorms

Researchers are working to identify exactly how a changing climate will impact specific elements of weather, such as clouds, rainfall, and lightning. A Tel…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Solar PVTs Unlock Enhanced Energy Generation Potential

Solar PVTs are normally made with crystal silicon cells which generate electricity, but little heat. Stephen Harrison and Joshua Pearce (Mechanical and…

Life & Chemistry

New Microbial Process Enhances Biofuel and Hydrogen Production

The results, published in the current issue of Environmental Science and Technology, showcase a novel way to use microbes to produce biofuel and hydrogen, all…

Trade Fair News

Northern France Rails into INNOTRANS 2012

As France's largest centre for rail transport and technology, the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy regions (in northern France) are home to 40% of France's…

Life & Chemistry

Waste to Watts: Enhancing Microbial Fuel Cells Innovation

According to César Torres and Sudeep Popat, researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, certain kinds of bacteria are adept at converting…

Life & Chemistry

UMass Amherst Researchers Unravel Secrets of Parasites’ Replication

They’re caused by parasites, and for decades researchers have searched for a “magic bullet” to kill them without harming the patient. Now, a team of…

Life & Chemistry

New Coral Reef Crustacean Named After Bob Marley

President Barack Obama has one. Comedian Stephen Colbert has one. Elvis Presley has one. Even computer software magnate Bill Gates has one. And now, Bob…

Studies and Analyses

The old primates' club: Even male monkeys ride their fathers' coattails to success

And even if your old man isn't a leader, other men in your community are more likely to take you under their wing than your sisters, lavishing attention on you…

Health & Medicine

Ordinary chickens may be extraordinary in fighting cancer, says Texas A&M researcher

James Womack, Distinguished Professor of Veterinary Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, is co-author of a paper detailing…

Environmental Conservation

Grassroots Conservation: Engaging Landowners for Change

A University of Illinois researcher along with his colleagues at Iowa State and Oklahoma State Universities enlisted private landowners in a grassroots…

Life & Chemistry

Study reveals new mechanism that might promote cancer's growth and spread in the body

Tiny vesicles released by tumors cells are taken up by healthy immune cells, causing the immune cells to discharge chemicals that foster cancer-cell growth and…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Reveals Tiny Ghost Galaxies in the Universe

These ghost-like galaxies are thought to be some of the tiniest, oldest, and most pristine galaxies in the universe. They have been discovered over the past…

Life & Chemistry

Hunting for Autism's Chemical Clues

She has similar information for nine other children — four with the disorder and five without — and she has spent the past few years sifting through this…

Information Technology

European Science Champions Score an Early Goal for Cloud Computing

A collaboration between big science and big business, Helix Nebula joins the forces of leading IT providers and three of Europe’s leading research centres…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Triboelectric Generator Captures Power from Friction

The triboelectric generator could supplement power produced by nanogenerators that use the piezoelectric effect to create current from the flexing of zinc…

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