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New study shows evacuation plans need to incorporate family perspectives

This finding, as well as many others, was derived from interviews of residents in the Chicago metropolitan area, with particular focus in two areas where…

Physics & Astronomy

Engineers Create Miniature Plasma Source for Thrusters

The Boise State engineers have created a miniature inductively coupled plasma source that could be used for ion thrusters where the propulsive force is…

Studies and Analyses

CAFE Standards Create Profit Incentive for Larger Vehicles

Over their lifetimes, these larger vehicles would generate between three and ten 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants' worth of excess carbon emissions. A…

Life & Chemistry

New Treatment Target for Rare Pediatric Disease Uncovered

The link is the enzyme Tankyrase and its pivotal role in switching on or off the protein that controls two known cancer genes. In normal cells, the protein is…

Event News

Discover the Latest Robotics Innovations at Asia 2012

In view of an ever expanding market and future for robotics in South East Asia (SEA), Robotics Asia 2012 aims to introduce the latest in commercial, industrial…

Life & Chemistry

How our Brains keep us Focused

Focus on what I am about to tell you! Our complex modern world is filled with so many distractions – flashing images on a television screen, blinking lights,…

Innovative Products

NAO Next Gen, pioneering humanoid robot, is launched

“The inception of this new generation of NAO robots means a lot to our company. We are proud to be in a position to provide our customers with endless options,…

Life & Chemistry

Advanced Techniques for Characterizing Atherosclerotic Plaque

A variety of advanced techniques have been developed to characterize the atherosclerotic plaque, including multidetector spiral computed tomography, magnetic…

Life & Chemistry

Decision making in bee swarms mimic neurons in human brains

In previous work, Cornell University biologist Thomas Seeley clarified how scout bees in a honeybee swarm perform “waggle dances” to prompt other scout bees to…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in regulating fat metabolism – Body’s fat switch discovered

This research, led by Professor Victor Zammit, Head of Metabolic and Vascular Health at Warwick Medical School, found that the enzyme known as ‘Carnitine…

Health & Medicine

PSA Testing Plus Patient Data Cuts Unnecessary Prostate Biopsies

Prostate cancer screening that combines an adjusted blood test with other factors including the size of the gland, the patient’s overall weight and family…

Health & Medicine

Panel Recommends Monitoring for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer

An independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health has concluded that many men with localized, low-risk prostate cancer should be…

Health & Medicine

Columbia’s New Technique Diagnoses Arrhythmias in One Beat

Thanks to a new study from Columbia Engineering School, doctors may now be able to diagnose in their offices non-periodic arrhythmias—noninvasively and at low…

Studies and Analyses

Nighttime Images Reveal Disease Hotspots from Above

Princeton University-led researchers report in the journal Science Dec. 9 that nighttime-lights imagery presents a new tool for pinpointing disease hotspots in…

Life & Chemistry

HIV Detection Improved: SAMHD1’s Role in Early Warning System

In this context, the protein SAMHD1 plays a key role. In addition, the investigators were able to show by means of blood samples from patients with a rare…

Physics & Astronomy

Light-Dressed Atoms Reveal New Interactions in Particle Study

Such light-tweaked atoms can be used as proxies to study important phenomena that would be difficult or impossible to study in other contexts. Their most…

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