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Power and Electrical Engineering

Fast Electric Car Boosts Power with Modular Design

As part of the project, the developers at Siemens Corporate Technology are focusing on two areas: creating a modular powertrain and giving the vehicle a smart…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Electrically Conductive Adhesive with Carbon Nanotubes

<b>TU159/05.04.2011</b><br><br>

The invention relates to an electrically conductive adhesive consisting of a conductive phase of carbon nanotubes distributed…

Technology Offerings

Explore Novel Non-Opioid Analgesics for Pain Relief

<b>UHH061/08.04.2011</b><br><br>

The invention relates to a novel class of analgesics, as well as their therapeutic utilization and their method of…

Architecture & Construction

Cities at Risk: Unprepared for Climate Change Challenges

Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are…

Earth Sciences

New Monitoring System Alerts to Slippery Slopes in Alps

As a consequence of climatic changes, the number of avalanche threats has been increasing in the Alps and other alpine regions, with fatal consequences for…

Life & Chemistry

Starch-Controlling Gene Boosts Protein in Soybean Plants

Eve Wurtele, professor of genetics, development and cell biology; and Ling Li, an adjunct assistant professor and an associate scientist working in her…

Studies and Analyses

Video Games Enhance Motor Recovery for Stroke Patients

Virtual reality and other video games can significantly improve motor function in stroke patients, according to research from St. Michael's Hospital. Patients…

Information Technology

Technique for letting brain talk to computers now tunes in speech

“There are many directions we could take this, including development of technology to restore communication for patients who have lost speech due to brain…

Business and Finance

Survey Commends 12 Cities for Online Financials

The survey identified Chicago as one of the 12 cities offering timely, complete and accurate online financial information used by municipal bond investors,…

Awards Funding

Tufts Engineering Professor Wins NSF Career Award for Thermophotovoltaic Research

Vandervelde, the John A. and Dorothy Adams Faculty Development Professor, will use the $400,000, five year award to continue his studies in thermophotovoltaics…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Resurrect Four-Billion-Year-Old Enzymes, Reveal Conditions of Early Life on Earth

By measuring the properties of these enzymes, they could examine the conditions in which the extinct organisms lived. The results shed new light on how life…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion

More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from its location.Astronomers say they have never seen such a bright, variable,…

Environmental Conservation

Scientists Have New Measure for Species Threat

The index, developed by a team of Australian researchers from the University of Adelaide and James Cook University, is called SAFE (Species Ability to…

Life & Chemistry

Instant Evolution: Bacteria Transform Sweet Potato Whiteflies

In just six years, bacteria in the genus Rickettsia spread through a population of the sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), an invasive pest of global…

Health & Medicine

New Radiation Treatment Guidelines for Thyroid Disease

The ATA convened a task force to update radiation safety information related to outpatient 131I therapy to treat hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer. The new…

Health & Medicine

Welders Face Increased Brain Damage Risk from Manganese Fumes

Fumes produced by welding contain manganese, an element that scientists have linked to neurological problems including Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms.“In…

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