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Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Uncover Rare Galaxy From Dawn of Time

Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside's Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, have discovered that one of the…

Environmental Conservation

Belize protected area boosting predatory fish populations

A 14-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in an atoll reef lagoon in Glover's Reef, Belize has found that fishing closures there produce encouraging…

Health & Medicine

Global Initiative Boosts Safety of Orthopedic Devices

Responding to a need for better post-market surveillance of orthopedic devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established the International…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Notre Dame Researchers Create Affordable Paint-On Solar Cells

A team of researchers at the University of Notre Dame have made a major advance toward this vision by creating an inexpensive “solar paint” that uses…

Physics & Astronomy

Cryogenic testing completed for NASA's WEBB Telescope mirrors

“The mirror completion means we can build a large, deployable telescope for space,” said Scott Willoughby, vice president and Webb program manager at Northrop…

Health & Medicine

Boost Adult Immunization: Essential Health Check Updates

Oops! You forgot something – up-to-date immunizations.Adult Canadians are not being immunized routinely for life-saving, vaccine-preventable diseases,…

Studies and Analyses

How moms talk influences children’s perspective-taking ability

That's what researchers from the University of Western Australia found in a new longitudinal study published in the journal Child Development.”Parents who…

Studies and Analyses

School Absenteeism Linked to Mental Health Issues in Youth

A new longitudinal study of more than 17,000 youths has found that frequently missing school is associated with a higher prevalence of mental health problems…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Family Consent Boosts Organ Donation Rates

At present, only 30% of the UK population are registered on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR). From 2003 to 2005, the overall consent rate for donation after…

Machine Engineering

Simatic PCS 7 Version 8: Enhanced Process Control Innovations

In Version 8 of Simatic PCS 7 the data exchange between the Cosmos plant management software and the PCS 7 engineering tools has been improved and the…

Materials Sciences

Invisibility Cloak: Metamaterials Make Science Fiction Real

Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be…

Life & Chemistry

Berlin’s neuroscientists decode important mechanism of nerve cell communication

They demonstrated the importance of a specific protein for signal transmission between nerve cells. This is of high significance as certain people with autism…

Event News

eLearning Baltics 2012: Advancements in Digital Education

eLBa 2012 will cover different aspects of learning and teaching with digital media in various settings such as classroom, university, workplace, home or mobile…

Awards Funding

Plastic Electronics: Overcoming Doubts and Paving the Future

When the concept was first proposed, it was dismissed as being unrealizable: “It’ll never work,” commented one expert assessor of an application for research…

Earth Sciences

Ironing out the details of the Earth's core

Identifying the composition of the earth's core is key to understanding how our planet formed and the current behavior of its interior. While it has been known…

Life & Chemistry

Ion Channel Shields Naked Mole-Rats from Acid Pain

African naked mole-rats live densely packed in narrow dark burrows where ambient carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are very high. In body tissues, CO2 is converted…

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