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Multi-Tasking Dangers: Older Adults Struggle to Cross Streets

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,…

Information Technology

Airport Security Scanners: Safety of Millimeter Wave Technology

One type of scanner employs millimeter wave technology, which delivers no ionizing radiation. However, the second type of scanner currently deployed at…

Physics & Astronomy

Stunning Image Reveals Drama of Starbirth in NGC 6729

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…

Statistics

Health Insurance Crisis: 9 Million Adults Uninsured Since 2010

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,…

Life & Chemistry

World first — Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers

Soon, drug delivery that precisely targets cancerous cells without exposing the healthy surrounding tissue to the medication's toxic effects will no longer be…

Life & Chemistry

Scientist Studies Frogs and Fish for Answers to Human Hearing

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Silicon Spin Transistors Heat Up and Spins Live Longer

“Electronic devices mostly use the charge of the electrons – a negative charge that is moving,” says Ashutosh Tiwari, an associate professor of materials…

Environmental Conservation

Rock-Paper-Scissors Tournaments Explain Ecological Diversity

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…

Trade Fair News

French Pavilion Highlights IT-Security Innovators at Infosecurity

France is home to numerous, internationally renowned players that specialise in protecting high-integrity networks and in supplying IT-security devices and…

Life & Chemistry

The more the merrier

Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) that chemically combine three or more molecules into a brand new product are faster and generate less waste than traditional…

Physics & Astronomy

Large Hadron Collider could be world’s first time machine

“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…

Social Sciences

Mothers Face Higher Sickness Absence Than Fathers

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…

Life & Chemistry

New Desalination Process Uses Carbon Nanotubes for Efficiency

The process creates a unique new architecture for the membrane distillation process by immobilizing carbon nanotubes in the membrane pores. Conventional…

Technology Offerings

Hydrogen Charging Boosts Methane Production in Biogas Plants

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…

Technology Offerings

Flexible Error Correction Enhances Digital Circuit Resilience

This invention pertains to error tolerance, specifically error correction in digital circuits.Further Information: PDF ZAB ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbH…

Life & Chemistry

Saarbrücker researchers show how parental genomes are reprogrammed at the start of life in mammals

This breakthrough leads to insights in the first molecular step of a complex epigenetic decoding process. The research published today in “Nature…

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