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Business and Finance

Navigating Declining Home Prices: Expert Insights and Solutions

As housing prices in the United States continue to drop, a Kansas State University professor says the best way to help the market is to stop delaying…

Life & Chemistry

Device Could Improve Harvest of Stem Cells from Umbilical Cord Blood

The prototype is still in the testing stage, but initial results are promising. The student inventors have obtained a provisional patent covering the…

Trade Fair News

UBIFRANCE’s virtual trade show goes live

UBIFRANCE, which currently has 63 offices in 44 countries, seeks to facilitate access to foreign markets for French-based businesses by giving them the…

Information Technology

Supercomputer "K computer" Takes First Place in World

The TOP500-ranked K computer system, currently in the configuration stage, has 672 computer racks equipped with a current total of 68,544 CPUs. This half-build…

Trade Fair News

Conductive Polymers Transforming Touch Screen Technology

A light touch with your finger opens up a new menu as if by magic, and you can browse with a quick tap of the screen. Large touch screens, an essential…

Health & Medicine

Can humans sense the Earth's magnetism?

For migratory birds and sea turtles, the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field is crucial to navigating the long-distance voyages these animals undertake…

Business and Finance

Impact of Investor Actions on Small Firms in Market Crises

This unexpected result suggests the significant impact that investors’ actions can have during emerging market crises. During these crises, investors flee to…

Life & Chemistry

Non-coding RNA has role in inherited neurological disorder — and maybe other brain diseases too

The discovery promises to have broad ramifications, suggesting that abundant non-coding transcripts of ribonucleic acid (RNA) may be key players in…

Studies and Analyses

Planning for a Healthy, Happy Retirement: Expert Insights

Retirement is often viewed as a time to relax, travel, participate in leisurely activities and spend time with family. However, for many older adults, chronic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Tool Tackles Solar Power Fluctuations at UC San Diego

And can researchers predict these fluctuations? UC San Diego Professor Jan Kleissl and Matthew Lave, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical and…

Earth Sciences

How Plankton Orientation Influences Ocean Climate Dynamics

An international research team including Prof. Andreas Macke, Director of the Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, explained this optical phenomenon…

Physics & Astronomy

Chaos Unleashed: Microlaser Innovations by Würzburg Team

Triggering chaotic behavior in the microcosm: this is what Stephan Reitzenstein and his team from the Institute of Physics at the University of Würzburg have…

Physics & Astronomy

Gamma-Ray Emission Detected from Terzan 5 Globular Cluster

Being very likely located in the outer parts of Terzan 5 this source is the first example for of gamma-ray emission from a globular cluster. The off-centre…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Mutation Tied to Heart Failure in Pregnant Women

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute have identified the first genetic mutation ever associated with a mysterious and potentially…

Environmental Conservation

Picky Pollinators – Native Bees are Selective about Where They Live and Feed

The study found that, overall, composition of a plant community is a weak predictor of the composition of a bee community, which may seem counterintuitive at…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Boniato: The Pest-Resistant Sweet Potato Innovation

Known as a boniato, or tropical sweet potato, Liberty has a dark red skin and light yellow, dry flesh with a bland flavor. Boniato potatoes originated in the…

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