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Machine Engineering

Quick Roll-Changing Boosts Efficiency in Steelstrip Production

The patented process reduces the time needed to replace pinch rolls in the down-coiling area by several hours, down to about ten minutes. Siemens developed an…

Medical Engineering

Game Console Tech Enhances Surgical Monitor Control

Until now it has been much harder to operate the monitors because surgical team members are not allowed to touch any objects other than surgical instruments,…

Studies and Analyses

Targeted Drug Improves Outcomes for Resistant Leukemia Patients

Imatinib, a drug that blocks the protein made by a particular cancer-causing gene, has revolutionized the treatment and prognosis of patients with CML. Now up…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Multiple Sclerosis: Myelin Not the Trigger

In the current issue of Nature Neuroscience, they therefore rule out a popular hypothesis on the origins of MS. The scientists are now primarily looking for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

RUB Researchers Develop Aqueous Lithium-Ion Battery Solution

The global energy demand is still increasing. However, today's concepts for power generation aren't able to deliver the amount of electricity, which is needed…

Environmental Conservation

Blue Light Triggers Red Tide Blooms, Study Reveals

Though the precise causes of red tides remain a mystery, a team of researchers in the United States and Spain has solved one of the main riddles about these…

Materials Sciences

Tiny Droplets: Unlocking Big Innovations in Fluid Dynamics

That instant of change, like the popping of soap bubble, comes so suddenly that it seems almost magical. But describing it, and mapping out how droplets…

Earth Sciences

'Storm of the century' may become 'storm of the decade'

Researchers from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that regions such as the New York City metropolitan area that…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Florida Reveals Inflammatory Circuit Linked to Breast Cancer

Although it’s widely accepted that inflammation is a critical underlying factor in a range of diseases, including the progression of cancer, little is known…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Stellar Abundances and Protoplanet Formation

The study of the photospheric stellar abundances of the planet-host stars is the key to understanding how protoplanets form, as well as which protoplanetary…

Life & Chemistry

Hibernating Woodchucks: Heart Cells and Calcium Storage Insights

How much calcium could a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells sequester, if a hibernating woodchuck's heart cells could sequester calcium? More than enough, it…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Future Aircraft Could Capture and Reuse Energy for Taxiing

They could use this to power their taxiing to and from airport buildings, reducing the need to use their jet engines. This would save on aviation fuel, cut…

Environmental Conservation

Rising Temperatures Shift Bird Migration Patterns in 2023

The reason, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers, is rising temperatures due to climate change.Using migration information…

Environmental Conservation

Orangutan Trader Sentenced: A Step Towards Conservation

The seven-month prison sentence is only the third for Indonesia, despite orangutans being strictly protected under Indonesian law since 1924.Although there…

Life & Chemistry

New Street Drug ‘Bath Salts’ Packs Double Punch

The street drug commonly referred to as “bath salts” is one of a growing list of synthetic and unevenly regulated narcotics that are found across the United…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Approved Drug for Metastatic Melanoma Nearly Doubles Median Survival

The data comes from an international Phase II study of Zelboraf that included 132 patients followed for at least one year. Patients with this advanced form of…

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