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Siemens Expands Electrolyzer Line for Efficient Water Disinfection

The new Osec B-Pak products have an enhanced, compact construction and a newly designed electrolyzer cell. The tubular cell electrolyzer systems from Siemens…

Corporate News

Siemens Modernizes Blooming Mill for Acciaierie Venete

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from the Italian steel producer Acciaierie Venete S.p.A. to extensively modernize the company's blooming…

Health & Medicine

Scientists Uncover Strong Support for Once-Marginalized Theory on Parkinson’s Disease

The new results conflict with an older theory that insoluble intracellular fibrils called amyloids cause Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative…

Studies and Analyses

Pig Stomach Mucins: New Anti-Viral Agents for Consumer Products

In the report, Katharina Ribbeck and colleagues point out that mucus, which coats the inside of the nose, mouth and vagina, is the immune system's first line…

Health & Medicine

A new 'Achilles' heel' in fungus that causes dandruff

Claudiu T. Supuran and colleagues explain that dandruff involves an excessive shedding of dead skin cells from the scalp. In people without dandruff, it takes…

Materials Sciences

New Fabric Coating Actively Repels Stains and Dirt

Tong Lin and colleagues explain that a method called “layer-by-layer” (LbL) self-assembly produces films and coatings for sensors, drug-delivery devices and…

Health & Medicine

Prove of the maternal influence for the development of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease comprises 2/3 of all dementia cases. It is an age-related disease that starts to effect patients in their 60ies and older. Only less than…

Environmental Conservation

First Camera Trap Images of Rare Leopard in China

The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve…

Life & Chemistry

Selenium’s Impact on Honey Bee Behavior and Survival

Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have a “proof of concept” that selenium, a nonmetal chemical element, can disrupt the foraging…

Materials Sciences

X-rays reveal molecular arrangements for better printable electronics

“This work is exciting because it helps reveal in new detail how we can achieve high performance transistors and solar cells with polymers,” said UC Santa…

Health & Medicine

Longer breastfeeding along with antiretroviral drugs could lower HIV transmission to babies

Now it appears that early weaning – stopping breastfeeding before six months – is of little, if any, protective value against HIV transmission nor is it safe…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Liquid Solar Cells: USC Researchers Innovate Printable Technology

Scientists at USC have developed a potential pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and be painted…

Environmental Conservation

Antibiotic resistance flourishes in freshwater systems

The author Dr. Seuss may have been on to something when he imagined that microscopic communities could live and flourish on small specs of dust, barely visible…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Left-Handers: Insights into Their Unique Traits

Lefties have always been a bit of a puzzle. Representing only 10 percent of the general human population, left-handers have been viewed with suspicion and…

Life & Chemistry

New Stem Cell Line Boosts Research on Nerve Conditions

The University of Michigan's second human embryonic stem cell line has just been placed on the U.S. National Institutes of Health's registry, making the cells…

Business and Finance

Retail Traders’ Insights: New Research from Columbia Finance

A forthcoming paper in the Journal of Finance by Professor Paul Tetlock, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, and Eric…

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