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Siemens Unveils Automotive Test Solutions at 2022 Expo

Under the theme „Automotive Test Technology – innovative, efficient, reliable,“ at Europe‘s leading event Siemens is presenting its testing technology and…

Life & Chemistry

Geisel researchers sift through 'junk' to find colorectal cancer clues

The finding offers clues about the development of colorectal cancer and could—potentially—provide targets for new therapies. Jason Moore, Third Century…

Earth Sciences

Scientists Track Rapid Sierra Nevada Uplift at UNR

From the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney at 14,000 feet in elevation, to the 10,000-foot-peaks near Lake Tahoe, scientific evidence…

Information Technology

Smart Touch Technology: Objects That Sense Your Grip

A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips and a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Next-Generation Nanoelectronics: Progress and Future Trends

However, while silicon-based circuits continue to shrink in size in the relentless pursuit of Moore’s Law — the prediction that the number of transistors that…

Life & Chemistry

Low Oxygen Levels Linked to Increased Cancer Growth

If hypoxia, or low oxygen levels in cells, is proven to be a key driver of certain types of cancer, treatment plans for curing the malignant growth could…

Information Technology

WS-Biometric Devices: Secure Wireless Biometric Access

The new protocol, called WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD), allows desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones to access sensors that capture biometric data such as…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST’s New Four-Wave Mixing Technique Generates Superluminal Pulses

The technique, called four-wave mixing, reshapes parts of light pulses and advances them ahead of where they would have been had they been left to travel…

Process Engineering

How Fabrication Methods Impact Block Copolymer Thin Films

The results* suggest that deeper work is necessary to explore the best way of creating these films, which are used in applications ranging from high-tech…

Physics & Astronomy

Science nugget: Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system's origins

This electromagnetic signature, known as Schumann Resonance, had only been observed from Earth's surface until, in 2011, scientists discovered they could also…

Medical Engineering

NIST/CU Bioreactor Prototype Enhances Engineered Tissue Evaluation

Conventional methods for evaluating the development and properties of engineered tissue are time-consuming, destructive and need to be repeated many times. By…

Materials Sciences

At Smallest Scale, Liquid Crystal Behavior Portends New Materials

Writing yesterday (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and…

Environmental Conservation

Ecosystem Effects of Biodiversity Loss Could Rival Impacts of Climate Change, Pollution

The study is the first comprehensive effort to directly compare the impacts of biological diversity loss to the anticipated effects of a host of other…

Trade Fair News

Siemens Showcases Plant-Wide Automation at Glass South America

The company will be showcasing solutions for integrated plant-wide automation at the show, which runs from May 17 – 19, 2012. The Siemens…

Architecture & Construction

DuPont Launches New Safety Glass Interlayer for UV Transmission

“Bringing full-spectrum light through laminated glass is proving attractive to botanists and other life science professionals,” said DuPont Advanced Interlayer…

Studies and Analyses

Follow-Up for Benign Breast Biopsies: New Findings Unveiled

The study, conducted at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, included 144 patients with 176 lesions that were followed anywhere from three months to 36…

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