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Life & Chemistry

Artificial Tissue: Advancing Implant Development with Multi-Layers

One of the biggest challenges has been to create multi-layer tissue structures designed to enable the diffusion of nutrients for surrounding cells in a similar…

Earth Sciences

Omen for the future: the Dead Sea was nearly dry generations ago, drilling project shows

The project, in which researchers from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were involved, opens a…

Life & Chemistry

Optimize Biofuel Operations: New Computer Model Unveiled

A new computer model developed at the University of Illinois can simplify this transition, researchers say. The model can run millions of simulations,…

Materials Sciences

To Save the World’s Drinking Water

This nanomaterial responds to warnings that as many as 60 million people live in contaminated areas in Southeast Asia without safe drinking water.The…

Information Technology

EU project “AutoTune” started

Supercomputers, like the ones made available to scientists within PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), which provide computing power in the…

Studies and Analyses

Impact of 365 Days on Consumer Decision Making Insights

“Consumers' perception of the precision and reliability of quantitative product information looms large in their decision making,” write authors Y. Charles…

Studies and Analyses

Rhode Island Hospital Studies Reveal Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death

Researchers in Rhode Island Hospital's Cardiovascular Research Center have published two new studies focusing on the causes of arrhythmia and sudden cardiac…

Health & Medicine

Headphone Hazards: Pedestrians at Risk of Serious Injury

Listen up, pedestrians wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males. Serious injuries to…

Earth Sciences

Natural Factors Behind Nitrogen-Rich Forests Revealed

It's because of biological interactions that occur naturally in the forests, Brookshire and four colleagues said in a paper they published Jan. 15 in the…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights on Orca Predation Impacting Steller Sea Lion Recovery

Scientists using “life history transmitters” to study Steller sea lions found evidence of age-structured predation by orcas (killer whales) and other large…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Power generation is blowing in the wind

Power generated by a wind turbine largely depends on the wind speed. In a wind farm in which the turbines experience the same wind speeds but different shapes,…

Earth Sciences

UMass Researchers Uncover Past Southern Hemisphere Rainfall Cycles

The work by Stephen Burns and his doctoral student Lisa Kanner at UMass Amherst is reported in the current issue of ScienceXpress. Burns says, “The study also…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Create World’s Smallest Baby Crystal Structure

Now scientists have determined that a structure comprising 32 lead-sulfur pairs is the smallest possible cubic arrangement that exhibits the same coordination…

Medical Engineering

New Device Simplifies Gallstone Removal Without Surgery

But a new device, patented in China, promises to make removing the entire organ unnecessary. A group of scientists from the Second People's Hospital of Panyu…

Physics & Astronomy

Flaky Graphene Enhances Reliability of Chemical Sensors

The researchers created the one-atom-thick carbon lattice flakes by placing bulk graphite in a solution and bombarding it with ultrasonic waves that broke off…

Health & Medicine

Markerless Motion Capture Reveals Tennis Injury Insights

Researchers studied three types of tennis serves, and identified one in particular, called a “kick” serve, which creates the highest potential for shoulder…

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