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Earth Sciences

Human Activities Emit More CO2 Than Volcanoes, Study Finds

So concludes a scientist who reviewed five published studies of present-day global volcanic carbon dioxide emissions and compared those emissions to…

Machine Engineering

Ultrasonic Sensors Enhance Wood Chip Level Control Efficiency

As the volume consumption is relatively large compared to liquid fuels, the knowledge of the current level is particularly important. For large industrial…

Health & Medicine

Researchers identify why dopamine replacement therapy has a paradoxical effect on cognition

Dr. Oury Monchi, Ph. D. in neuronal modeling and Head of the Neurophysiological and Neuroimaging Research theme at the Centre de recherche de l'Institut…

Architecture & Construction

“Nothing” insulates better

What works for thermos flasks can also be used for thermally insulating buildings: insulation by means of a vacuum. Vacuum insulation panels and vacuum glazing…

Social Sciences

Son Preference in China: Understanding the Sex Ratio Shift

At the time of the census in 2005, almost 121 boys were born for every 100 girls. Last year’s census showed that sex ratio at birth (SRB) had improved…

Life & Chemistry

Taming the molecule’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The problem is to control which enantiomer you want to produce – a problem that has proved to be important in the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers at the…

Health & Medicine

Cutting Dental Implant Healing Times with Nano Innovation

“Increasing the active surface at nano level and changing the conductivity of the implant allows us to affect the body’s own biomechanics and speed up the…

Business and Finance

Investors Thrive Without Traditional Investment Advice?

A study by researchers at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Naples has yielded surprising results on the use of conventional…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Exploding Star’s Luminosity Decline

“Our study shows that the luminosity declined until about 2001 owing to radioactive disintegration of compounds formed by the explosion. Over the last ten…

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80% of Young Swedes Use Social Media Daily, Study Reveals

Every year, Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden takes a barometer reading of media use in Sweden. Media Barometer data were first collected in…

Science Education

Innovative Approaches in Early Childhood Education and Play

In her thesis, Susanne Thulin examines the way in which teachers and children communicate around science questions in early childhood education. Her study…

Health & Medicine

Lifeguards Maintain CPR Quality Even Under Extreme Exertion

Swim centre personnel and lifeguards are trained in, and regularly practice, rescue from water and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR. A study has been carried…

Life & Chemistry

Asbestos exposure linked to genetic mutation

This has been shown in a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo and Dr. Uri Shanas of the University of Haifa's Department of Biology in Oranim. “This…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Cooler, Smaller, Fuel Cells Goal of UIC Researchers

While high hurdles stand before the cheap manufacturing of fuel cells, engineers and scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and nearby Argonne…

Life & Chemistry

Genomic Comparison of Multi-Drug Resistant, Invasive Acinetobacter Reveals Genomic Plasticity

Published 2011 June 4;12(1):291[Epub ahead of print], in BMC Genomics, the results of comparison using a whole genome approach with three isolates and focused…

Life & Chemistry

Chemists Devise Better Way to Prepare Workhorse Molecules

Writing in the current online issue (June 9) of the journal Science, a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry Professor Shannon Stahl reports a…

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