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Science Education

Transforming Success: Mastering Classroom and Sports Stress

Knowing the right way to handle stress in the classroom and on the sports field can make the difference between success and failure for the millions of…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Integrates MediGuide for Safer Catheter Procedures

Siemens Healthcare has integrated the navigation technology MediGuide from St. Jude Medical into its Artis zee angiography systems. By means of magnetic…

Life & Chemistry

Micro-Onions: New Magnetic Ink Microcapsules Unveiled

Under a microscope they look like miniature onions, in fact, they are new microcapsules introduced by David A. Weitz and Shin Hyun Kim in the journal…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Discovered for Meningiomas in Brain Tumor Research

Approximately 1 400 people are affected annually by tumours of the brain in Sweden and twenty per cent of those are afflicted with meningioma. The tumour…

Studies and Analyses

Social networking's good and bad impacts on kids

Social media present risks and benefits to children but parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' activities online are wasting their time, according to…

Architecture & Construction

New Study Links Non-Inherited Mutations to Schizophrenia Cases

A group led by Maria Karayiorgou, MD, and Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD, examined the genomes of patients with schizophrenia and their families, as well as healthy…

Studies and Analyses

Electric Cars: Ideal for Daily Use Based on User Insights

This conclusion is the result of user analyses in two projects in which Siemens plays a decisive role: the internal 4-Sustainelectromobility (4-S) project…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative LED Concept Delivers Efficient Warm-White Light

Until now, it was almost impossible to achieve high efficiency with a warm-white LED light similar to that of an incandescent lamp, because the warmer the…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacteria-Produced Wires Show Promise for Cheaper Biosensors

Their findings reported in the Aug. 7 advance online issue of Nature Nanotechnology may one day lead to cheaper, nontoxic nanomaterials for biosensors and…

Materials Sciences

Nanoscale Innovations Enhance Strength in Alloys

Long before they knew they were doing it – as long ago as the Wright Brother's first airplane engine – metallurgists were incorporating nanoparticles in…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking MicroRNA Roles: Introducing the MirKO Resource

A new resource to define the roles of microRNAs is announced today in Nature Biotechnology. The resource, called mirKO, gives researchers access to tools to…

Life & Chemistry

UNC-Duke ties lead to collaborative finding about cell division & metabolism

Cells are the building blocks of the human body. They are a focus of scientific study, because when things go wrong at the cellular and molecular level the…

Life & Chemistry

Brain's map of space falls flat when it comes to altitude

In a study published online today in Nature Neuroscience, scientists studied cells in or near a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which forms the…

Life & Chemistry

Cell-Based Alternatives to Animal Testing: New Insights Revealed

Research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Genomics demonstrates that the response of laboratory grown human cells can now be used to…

Materials Sciences

Molecular Sorting: New Processes for Efficient Recycling

Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany will take on this challenge in a pioneering new project, funded as part of the…

Life & Chemistry

Frequent Mutations in Bladder TCC Chromatin Remodeling Genes

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital and Shenzhen Second People's Hospital, announced today that the study on…

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