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Virginia Tech biomedical engineers announce child football helmet study

Youth football helmets are currently designed to the same standards as adult helmets, even though little is known about how child football players impact their…

Materials Sciences

New Nanomaterial Could Enable Self-Rewiring Computers

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can “steer” electrical currents. The development could lead to a computer that can…

Health & Medicine

Precise Gene Therapy Without Needles: A New Electric Method

The technique uses electricity to “shoot” bits of therapeutic biomolecules through a tiny channel and into a cell in a fraction of a second.L. James Lee and…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Identifies Susceptibility Genes for Dengue Infection

Dengue is globally the most common mosquito-borne infection after malaria, with an estimated 100 million infections occurring annually. Symptoms range from…

Health & Medicine

Google Earth Typhoid Maps Uncover Disease Outbreak Secrets

Now, in a twenty-first century equivalent, scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust working in Kathmandu, Nepal, have combined the latest in gene sequencing…

Life & Chemistry

The Power of Touch: Enhancing Emotional Connections Through Caresses

Being gently caressed by another person is both a physical and an emotional experience. But the way we are touched and the reaction this elicits in the brain…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Tool Measures Your Roof’s Solar Efficiency Accurately

Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have launched a tool that uses the actual conditions to determine the maximum possible magnitude of solar…

Event News

Collaborative eResearch environments – “eSciDoc Days” provide extensive information

eSciDoc is an open source eResearch environment that has been developed by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for…

Corporate News

Siemens to equip ÖBB Nordbahn route with ETCS

An ETCS Level 2 of the Trainguard 200 RBC type will be installed along the 87 km rail link and eleven stations will also be equipped. The overall volume…

Corporate News

Siemens' Crown system to help California water conservation plant improve efficiency and lower costs

Siemens Industry Automation Division's Crown sludge disintegration system is expected to enhance anaerobic digester performance to increase biogas production…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Study Uncovers Key Insights for Liver Function

The work is an international collaboration led by Imperial College London and it identifies 42 genetic regions associated with liver function, 32 of which had…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Biodegradable Plastics: The Future of PHB

Even though PHB is biodegradable and is not dependent on fossil resources, this bioplastic has been traditionally too expensive to produce to replace…

Corporate News

Siemens' ISBR system to help Pennsylvania WWTP meet effluent limits, significantly reduce sludge hauling costs

Valued at almost US$2 million, the system will be an integral part of the plant's upgrade, helping to meet effluent limits and to significantly reduce sludge…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover Innovative Funnels for Spill-Free Kitchen Pouring

Who wants to decant liquids in the kitchen without spilling knows to value a funnel. Funnels are not only useful tools in the kitchen. Light can also be…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Variant Boosts Memory Through Enhanced Brain Activation

In this study, KIBRA was first examined in relation to the memory performance of a group of 2,230 subjects. Just as in previous studies, carriers of the KIBRA…

Health & Medicine

Tracking Drugs in Tissue: New Mass Spectrometry Method

The method is a special type of mass spectrometry which can be used on drugs ‘off the shelf’, i.e. without any radioactive labelling which may change the…

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