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Life & Chemistry

Are Genes Our Destiny?

A “hidden” code linked to the DNA of plants allows them to develop and pass down new biological traits far more rapidly than previously thought, according to…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategy Likely to Speed Drug Development for Rare Cancers

Investigators identified several dozen new and existing drugs as possible ependymoma treatment candidates. The drugs were found by screening 5,303 existing…

Environmental Conservation

Salmon and Other Fish Predators Rely on ‘No Guts, No Glory’ Survival Tactic

Salmon and other fish predators take the adage literally, by having up to three times the “gut” capacity they need on a daily basis just so they can “glory”…

Health & Medicine

Common Treatments Can Lead to Antibiotic Resistance

According to a study released this week in the Archives of Ophthalmology, ophthalmologic antibiotics promote antimicrobial resistance too, prompting a call…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Spend 10 Days Underwater to Study Coral

Led by Mark Hay, a Georgia Tech professor of biology, the 10-day mission includes two Ph.D. students and a postdoctoral researcher who are living 50 feet below…

Life & Chemistry

Bio-Imaging Reveals Link Between Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms

The feedback loop of transcriptional factor with 24 h period in the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was proposed to work as a circadian central oscillator, as…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra High Sensitivity Sensors Using Magnonic Crystals

Here, Mitsuteru Inoue and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology demonstrate that magnonic crystals—artificial magnetic crystal structures for…

Process Engineering

Manufacturing technology: The vibration that smoothes

In conventional milling operations, a workpiece on a table is typically fed past a rotating multi-tooth cutter, and the entire surface is processed by making a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering: Wireless liberation

Wireless devices such as mobile phones rely on the radio spectrum to send and receive data. There is growing interest in using a worldwide unlicensed spectrum…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Technology Funding Lowers Costs for Climate Protection

Economising on targeted funding, for example for renewable energies, makes climate protection more expensive – as scientists of the Potsdam Institute for…

Life & Chemistry

Marine scientists from Warnemünde succeed in deciphering the microbial world of the Baltic Sea

In a comprehensive measuring campaign, the microbiologists Daniel Herlemann, Matthias Labrenz and Klaus Jürgens, from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea…

Physics & Astronomy

Schrödinger Cats Capture Many-Particle Quantum States

Quantum mechanics describes the complete information of any given system. Even though nanotechnology has developed tremendously during the last decades, one…

Earth Sciences

NASA's TRMM Satellite Reveals Heaviest Rainfall in Maria's Northwestern Quadrant

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite traveled above tropical storm Maria on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 1001 UTC ( 6:01 a.m. EDT). TRMM…

Life & Chemistry

Catalysis research – TU Berlin receives more than one million dollars

“In the field of electromobility mainly research on lithium-ion battery technology has been promoted in the past years. But the limits of this technology…

Power and Electrical Engineering

U.S. Solar PV System Costs Plummet in 2010 and 2011

The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2010 and into the first half of 2011, according to the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Reveals Tropical Storm Roke Near Kadena Base

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Roke yesterday and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument showed powerful convection building around the storm's…

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