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Life & Chemistry

Cooperative agreement – start for further development of eco-friendly seed treatment using electrons

A cooperative agreement was signed on November 24th, by the directors of Getreide AG and BayWa AG, the managing director of Röber Institut GmbH, and the…

Corporate News

Siemens Increases Inventions by 10%: A New Milestone

That’s just under 40 inventions per work day. The number of invention applications per employee in research and development (currently 27,800) has doubled…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Two-Spotted Spider Mite Genome May Yield Better Pesticides

The voracious mites, which technically are not insects, can eat more than 1,100 plant species – a rare trait. The mites’ newly revealed and sequenced genome…

Life & Chemistry

Supercool: Water Doesn&#039;t Have to Freeze Until <br>Minus 55 F

That’s 87 degrees Fahrenheit colder than what most people consider the freezing point of water, namely, 32 F. Supercooled liquid water must become ice at minus…

Life & Chemistry

How Old Yeast Cells Send Off Their Daughter Cells without the Baggage of Old Age

Reporting in the November 23, 2011, issue of Cell the research team, led by Stowers investigator Rong Li, Ph.D., proposes that the limited mobility of clumps…

Power and Electrical Engineering

High-Efficiency Heterojunction Solar Cells via Copper Electroplating

The results were obtained by applying copper electroplating technology, which was developed by Kaneka based on imec’s existing copper electroplating…

Environmental Conservation

Marine Biodiversity Loss: Impact of Warming and Predation

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Science, examined the response of rocky shore barnacles and mussels to the combined effects of warming…

Environmental Conservation

Sunlight’s Role in Shaping Tropical Tree Species Niches

The variation in physiological characteristics between tree species explains how the various species fit into their ecological niches, thereby contributing to…

Health & Medicine

Local Community Boosts Dengue Control Efforts, Say Scientists

Easier said than done, and cooperation of the local communities is an important factor in the success of a campaign. So observed scientists from the Antwerp…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Clean Cooking Innovations: Saving Lives and Protecting Climate

The Special Issue explores the type of decision frameworks that are needed to guide policy development for clean cooking fuels and to ensure that the provision…

Information Technology

Cloud Computing Enhances Problem Solving and Energy Efficiency

Propositional logic provides a convenient language for expressing real-world originated problems such as AI planning, automated test pattern generation,…

Medical Engineering

New CT Scanner Enhances Image Quality and Dose Reduction

At this year's Congress of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Siemens Healthcare is presenting a CT scanner, the Somatom Definition Edge, which…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Discover How City Shadows Reveal Urban Energy Flow

“Solar radiation that falls on a certain point in the city varies depending on the time of day, the weather conditions, the pollution level and other…

Health & Medicine

Dantrolene protects neurons from Huntington&#039;s disease

It affects a person's ability to walk, talk, and think – leading to involuntary movement and loss of muscle co-ordination. New research published in BioMed…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Atomic Control: Insights from Feynman’s Vision

Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, “Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular…

Life & Chemistry

Green C-fixing for a cleaner future

Using fixation reactions to convert free carbon dioxide (CO2) into different organic molecules is an attractive strategy to cut industrial greenhouse gas…

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