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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Optimizing Biofuel Supply Chain: A Competitive Landscape

This competition has sparked concern for the more fundamental issue of allocating limited farmland resources, which has far-reaching implications for food…

Event News

Discover the Latest Innovations at IoT Week 2012 in Venice

The international Internet of Things Community will get together at the IoT week 2012 in Venice (Italy) from 18-22 June 2012. By listening to presentations…

Event News

Future Cars: Merging Electric, Assisted, and Connected Driving

Smart systems for safe, sustainable and networked vehicles to be introduced at AMAA 2012Information and communication technologies, smart components and…

Awards Funding

Maastricht Researcher Wins Von der Gablentz Prize for EU Study

He received the award for his dissertation on “The Role of the Council Secretariat and the European Commission in EU Foreign Policy”, which he defended cum…

Health & Medicine

Wayne State/DMC Unveils New Approach to Prevent Cerebral Palsy

The study is the first to show that an anti-inflammatory drug delivered with a nanodevice can dramatically improve CP symptoms in an animal model.The report,…

Life & Chemistry

Bone Marrow Cells Cut Diabetic Amputation Risks, Study Finds

The team of researchers in Seville, Spain who carried out the study published their results in a recent issue of Cell Transplantation (20:10), now freely…

Studies and Analyses

Jellyfish Populations Surge: Insights from New UBC Study

In a study published in this month’s edition of the journal Hydrobiologia, UBC scientists examined data for numerous species of jellyfish for 45 of the world’s…

Studies and Analyses

Naturopathic Care Boosts Mood and Blood Sugar in Diabetes

A new joint study by Group Health Research Institute and Bastyr University Research Institute found that type 2 diabetes patients who received naturopathic…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanodot Memory Breaks Speed Record with Innovative Design

The new system uses a layer of non-conducting material embedded with discrete (non-overlapping) silicon nanodots, each approximately 3 nanometers across. Each…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nature's billion-year-old battery key to storing energy

New research at Concordia University is bringing us one step closer to clean energy. It is possible to extend the length of time a battery-like enzyme can…

Environmental Conservation

Nanoparticles May Damage Plant DNA, NIST Study Finds

In a recent paper,* the team led by NIST chemist Bryant C. Nelson showed that under laboratory conditions, cupric oxide nanoparticles have the capacity to…

Medical Engineering

New Device Enhances Laser Accuracy in Surgical Procedures

“The issue of depth control has always been a problem in laser surgery,” says professor James Fraser. “There are many surgical procedures where we would like…

Health & Medicine

Effective Treatment for Deadly Cat Disease Discovered

Lone Star ticks, which are notorious carriers of many diseases including cytauxzoonosis, or “bobcat fever,” have been spreading across the nation in recent…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Robotics: Key to Efficient Human Space Exploration

“The basic premise is that human space exploration must be highly efficient, cost effective, and autonomous as placing humans beyond low Earth orbit is fraught…

Environmental Conservation

Warming Climate Threatens Mountain Ecology Near Boulder

The six papers appeared in the April issue of the journal BioScience. The papers were tied to data gathered at sites in North America, Puerto Rico, the island…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Kidney Stone Risk: New Research Insights

Now, new research by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides evidence to explain why some people are more prone to develop…

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