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Medical Engineering

MRI Techniques Enhance Pulmonary Embolism Detection Accuracy

Pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot—usually from the leg—travels to the lung and blocks the pulmonary artery or one of its main branches. CT…

Studies and Analyses

Air Emissions From Fracking Sites Linked to Health Risks

In a new study, researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health have shown that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking may contribute…

Life & Chemistry

Antibiotic Treatment Linked to Severe Asthma in Young Mice

Allergic asthma affects more than 100 million people worldwide and its prevalence is increasing, particularly among children in industrialized countries….

Life & Chemistry

No fear of the “bad wolf” – Feeding habits of German wolves investigated

For a long time, wolves had been wiped out in Germany, now they are slowly getting back home. But not everyone is happy at the return of the wild animal. The…

Event News

Anniversary Conference of South Asia Institute in New Delhi: “India’s Cities”

A conference in India on the topic urban research will mark the founding of the South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University 50 years ago. The SAI was…

Corporate News

Siemens Delivers New Zimpro WAO System to Sinopec

The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO systems installed at Sinopec facilities will be used to treat sulfidic spent caustic wastewater streams generated in the…

Studies and Analyses

Wild Orangutans’ Stress Response to Eco-Tourism in Borneo

IU anthropologist Michael P. Muehlenbein can't say yet what makes the wild orangutans of Borneo deal with stress differently than other species in other…

Health & Medicine

Combination Treatment Shows Promise for Kids’ Neurological Disorder

There are no effective treatments for the disease, which can also strike older children. And several therapeutic approaches, evaluated in mouse models and in…

Materials Sciences

Graphene Supercapacitor: A New Era for Portable Electronics

They have garnered attention as energy storage devices as they charge and discharge faster than batteries, yet they are still limited by low energy densities,…

Materials Sciences

New Process Enhances Polymer Flexibility Using Voltage Control

By applying specific voltages, the team has also shown that it can achieve this control over large and curved surface areas.”By changing the voltage applied to…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Cells Signal Antiviral Response to Tumor Virus

The infected tumor cells release a protein called CCN1 into the narrow space between cells where it initiates an antiviral response. The response limits the…

Life & Chemistry

Biomarkers Transforming Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring

Over the last few decades there has been an explosion in the discovery of biomarkers for diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognostic evaluation. In the April…

Trade Fair News

France's aircraft flair flies into Hamburg in March 2012

Aircraft Interiors Expo is the global trade fair of reference for the aircraft-interior sector, as well as for services to airlines. The trade fair is taking…

Studies and Analyses

Study looks at discrimination’s impact on smoking

Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic…

Studies and Analyses

Cap and Trade Programs: Insufficient Incentives for Innovation

In fact, said author Margaret Taylor, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who conducted the study while an assistant professor…

Environmental Conservation

Research Adds to Mounting Evidence Against Popular Pavement Sealcoat

The research, detailed in a recent feature article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, has found that one type of pavement sealcoat, common on…

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