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FoBt Sensor – Faseroptischer Betauungssensor erkennt feuchte Oberflächen

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Nanocrystalline Coated Metal Foams Enhance Crash Absorption

The french-german institution for security and defence (ISL) and Saarland University joined their efforts and developed a method to strengthen the structur of…

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E-Lumi-Tex – Active Lighting by textile finishing

Researchers of the Niederrhein University have invented a method to produce electroluminescent textile surface by conventional printing methods. The invention…

Physics & Astronomy

New X-Ray Stripes Reveal Insights from Exploded Stars

The discovery of a pattern of X-ray “stripes” in the remains of an exploded star may provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event can accelerate…

Earth Sciences

Cutting CO2: New Insights on Wetter Climates

New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao and Ken Caldeira offers a novel explanation for why climates are wetter when atmospheric carbon…

Earth Sciences

Significant Rise in Arctic Ocean Freshwater Since 1990s

This result is published by researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute in the journal Deep-Sea Research. The freshwater content in the layer of the Arctic…

Studies and Analyses

Gambling Problems Outpace Drinking Issues, New Study Reveals

In results published this month in the Journal of Gambling Studies, John W. Welte, principal investigator on the study and a national expert on alcohol and…

Studies and Analyses

Indiana University Discovery: Safer, More Effective Morphine

The researchers say the finding in animal models may ultimately make morphine a safer and more effective drug. Traditionally opioids were used to relieve pain…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Costs of Fragility Fractures in Europe

Research presented today at the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis by investigators from the UK and Sweden estimates that the economic burden…

Information Technology

First student-developed mission in which satellites orbit and communicate led by UT students

The satellites separated March 22 at 6:35 a.m. Central Standard Time. Now that they're apart, the 60-plus pound, tire-sized satellites will be able to perform…

Environmental Conservation

Joshua Trees at Risk: Climate Change Impact Revealed

The research team used models of future climate, an analysis of the climatic tolerances of the species in its current range, and the fossil record to project…

Earth Sciences

RIT Researchers Create Detailed Maps of Japan’s Tsunami Damage

Japan needs maps. Not just any kind—detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Study Reveals Future Farmland Shifts in Key Regions

Regions with relative high latitudes – China, Russia and the U.S. – could see a significant increase in arable land in coming years, but Africa, Europe and…

Materials Sciences

Zinc stannate nanostructures: growing a highly useful semiconductor

The review is published in March 2011 in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced MaterialsVol. 12(2011) p. 013004. Itis presented by Sunandan Baruah and…

Medical Engineering

BrainGate Neural Interface Hits 1,000-Day Performance Milestone

Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational…

Environmental Conservation

Currents Keep Dolphins Apart: New Insights from Conservationists

Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other conservation and research groups have discovered…

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