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Power and Electrical Engineering

Zinc Oxide Microwires Improve the Efficiency of LEDs

By applying mechanical strain to the microwires, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created a piezoelectric potential in the wires, and that…

Physics & Astronomy

LHC Proton Run for 2011 Reaches Successful Conclusion

At the beginning of the year’s run, the objective for the LHC was to deliver a quantity of data known to physicists as one inverse femtobarn during the course…

Physics & Astronomy

Student Test Scores Suffer from Even Subtle Background Noise

According to research on third- and fifth-grade classrooms presented at the 162nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), fifth-grade students were…

Corporate News

Ionpure VNX CDIT: High Water Hardness Tolerance Innovation

Using thin cell technology with a high water hardness tolerance, Ionpure VNX CDIT enables system designers to eliminate costly second-pass reverse osmosis (RO)…

Business and Finance

Immigrants – Sweden’s new poor pensioners

This gloomy future scenario is revealed by a new government inquiry on the pension system carried out by researchers from the School of Business, Economics and…

Studies and Analyses

Caloric Restriction May Slow Aging by Preventing Enzyme Loss

”We are able to show that caloric restriction slows down ageing by preventing an enzyme, peroxiredoxin, from being inactivated. This enzyme is also extremely…

Health & Medicine

New Study Reveals Hope for Men With Prostate Cancer Suicide Risk

In a study at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy, researchers surveyed the thoughts of 833 Swedish men before and after surgery for prostate…

Health & Medicine

New ways of treating Alzheimer’s

Research advances in recent years have given us a detailed knowledge of the molecular mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s disease. The spotlight has fallen on beta…

Studies and Analyses

The new old age – today’s pensioners are very different to yesterday’s

The number of elderly is rising worldwide, and it is estimated that average life expectancy in Europe will reach 100 by the end of the century. At the same…

Architecture & Construction

Exploring Structural Design Innovations for Super-Tall Buildings

Although researchers have investigated the problem for over 30 years now, the research achievements of across-wind loads and effects and the computation…

Transportation and Logistics

Algiers Launches First Metro Line for Passenger Service

The President of the Algerian Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika inaugurated the first metro line in the capital Algiers today. Siemens, as the consortium leader,…

Health & Medicine

Dental Study Reveals Crowded Teeth Trends in Seniors

The unique study started in 1949. Plaster molds were made of the jaws of dental students, who were then in their twenties. Ten years later the procedure was…

Business and Finance

Doing Good and Doing Well Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Why is poor decision-making so prevalent in today's society? What role can the business community play in helping people make decisions that are more…

Information Technology

Your Phone as Friend: Monitoring Mental Health from Your Pocket

Tanzeem Choudhury, associate professor of computing and information science, is developing such an application, supported by the newly created Intel Science…

Life & Chemistry

How Unlocking the Genetic Secret of Insects Could Improve Human Health, Welfare

It's an odd, somewhat startling combination to new visitors. But to Kanost, paperwork and bugs go together like peanut butter and jelly.”I've always liked…

Life & Chemistry

Research Team Clarifies the Mechanics Behind the First New Cell Cycle to be Described in More than Two Decades

This discovery, led by a geneticist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and reported Oct. 30 in Nature, leads to a new understanding of how cells grow…

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