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Power and Electrical Engineering

Powerful Mini-LEDs Enhance Thin Touchscreen Experience

The lamps create a veritable web of light that overlays the display. If a user touches the screen, the motion interferes with the light grid at that particular…

Earth Sciences

Deforestation Cuts Rainfall in West African Forests By 50%

The study shows that West African rainforest deforestation reduces precipitation over neighboring trees by about 50 percent due to increased surface…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Pigeon Milk: Mechanisms Behind Its Production

Essential for the growth and development of the young pigeon squab, pigeon 'milk' is produced by both parents from fluid-filled cells lining the crop that are…

Earth Sciences

Deep Oceans Hide Global Warming Effects for Decades

The study, based on computer simulations of global climate, points to ocean layers deeper than 1,000 feet (300 meters) as the main location of the “missing…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoparticles Linked to Brain Injury in Rainbow Trout

They subjected rainbow trout to titanium oxide nanoparticles which are widely used as a whitening agent in many products including paints, some personal care…

Life & Chemistry

For unzipping DNA mysteries — literally — Cornell physicists discover how a vital enzyme works

At the heart of many metabolic processes, including DNA replication, are enzymes called helicases. Acting like motors, these proteins travel along one side of…

Health & Medicine

Catching a breath — wirelessly

University of Utah engineers who built wireless networks that see through walls now are aiming the technology at a new goal: noninvasively measuring the…

Life & Chemistry

Water’s Role as an Enzyme Team Player in Biochemical Processes

The surrounding water acts like an “adhesive”, in order to keep the substrate at the right place on an enzyme. For this, the dynamism of the water is retarded….

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Enhances Cancer Visualization in Surgery

The technique has now been successfully tested on nine patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer. There are plans to apply this imaging concept also to minimally…

Life & Chemistry

Gamers Unlock Retrovirus Enzyme Structure After Decade of Research

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery…

Materials Sciences

U of T Research Enhances Next-Gen Solar Cell Technology

The discovery is reported in the latest issue of Nature Materials.Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductors that capture light and convert it into an energy…

Studies and Analyses

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

MicroRNAs are a class of 19-24 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that do not code for proteins. MicroRNAs bind to target messenger RNAs to inhibit protein…

Studies and Analyses

Schizophrenia and Epilepsy Linked: New Study Insights

The study published today in Epilepsia, a journal of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), reports that patients with epilepsy were nearly 8 times…

Life & Chemistry

Unique Fingerprints: Essential Tools for Identification

Like DNA, fingerprints are unique to each person or set of identical twins. That makes them a valuable identification tool for everything from crime detection…

Life & Chemistry

Size matters: Length of songbirds’ playlists linked to brain region proportions

Songbirds with upper brain regions that are larger in relation to lower regions have a greater capacity for learning songs. Higher brain areas control the…

Studies and Analyses

From Subways to Dairy Barns, Is New York Ready for Climate Change?

Climate change researcher David W. Wolfe says New York can be prepared, but we need to understand the changes to come and start getting ready to face them…

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