The researchers found that adults aged 59 to 81 took significantly longer than college students to cross a simulated street while talking on a mobile phone,…
One type of scanner employs millimeter wave technology, which delivers no ionizing radiation. However, the second type of scanner currently deployed at…
The star-forming region NGC 6729 is part of one of the closest stellar nurseries to the Earth and hence one of the best studied. This new image from ESO's Very…
An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years,…
Soon, drug delivery that precisely targets cancerous cells without exposing the healthy surrounding tissue to the medication's toxic effects will no longer be…
Why study frogs and fish? These are excellent subjects for study because during embryonic stages of development, the hearing and balance organs of both species…
“Electronic devices mostly use the charge of the electrons – a negative charge that is moving,” says Ashutosh Tiwari, an associate professor of materials…
According to classical ecology, when two species compete for the same resource, eventually the more successful species will win out while the other will go…
France is home to numerous, internationally renowned players that specialise in protecting high-integrity networks and in supplying IT-security devices and…
Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) that chemically combine three or more molecules into a brand new product are faster and generate less waste than traditional…
“Our theory is a long shot,” admitted Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, “but it doesn’t violate any laws of physics or experimental…
There are considerable differences in the sickness absence between women and men. In the first half of 2008, 14.5 million days of sickness absence were paid…
The process creates a unique new architecture for the membrane distillation process by immobilizing carbon nanotubes in the membrane pores. Conventional…
The process permits an increased proportion of methane in biogas by introducing hydrogen into the biogas plant. The hydrogen is not pumped into the biogas…
This invention pertains to error tolerance, specifically error correction in digital circuits.Further Information: PDF ZAB ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH…
This breakthrough leads to insights in the first molecular step of a complex epigenetic decoding process. The research published today in “Nature…