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Planning Wind Farms: Key Considerations for Success

Already in the planning phase of wind farms essential parameters of success – or failure, in most cases based on 20 years of operational life, are laid. Many…

Business and Finance

Consumer Credit Increase a Good Sign, but the Economic Road Ahead Still Littered with Potholes

“On the positive side, household debt service obligations as a ratio to disposable income are in the 12 percent range, which is comparable to what we saw in…

Studies and Analyses

NASA-Funded Study Tracks Climate Change on Three Continents

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant of $1,950,135 will fund the three-year project. Researchers will analyze satellite data, as well as…

Architecture & Construction

Roof Collapses Predictable in Record Snowy Winter

Ray Cook, assistant professor of civil engineering at UNH, can discuss the science behind this winter’s many roof collapses and give advice for preventing them.

Physics & Astronomy

Fusion — Intense Neutron Detectives

Neutron scattering is one way to find out. The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory offers fusion researchers with the U.S. ITER Project…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sensors — Setting Standards

The Graduated Rad/Nuc Detector Evaluation and Reporting program fulfills a Congressional mandate to set capability standards and establish a test and…

Life & Chemistry

Biology — Database a Likely Lifesaver

While the National Cyber Security Division’s US-CERT provides cyber security updates and tools to safeguard computers within federal agencies, industry, state…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Hydropower — Fishy Behavior

In response, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are investigating how electromagnetic fields generated by the turbines could affect the behavior of…

Earth Sciences

Large Dams Can Affect Local Climates, Alter Rainfall

A study by researchers at Tennessee Tech University, Purdue University, the University of Colorado and the University of Georgia, Pacific Northwest National…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Develop Safer Way to Make Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

“These iPS cells are much safer than ones made with previous technologies because they don’t involve integrating foreign viruses that can potentially lead to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Critical Issues in Global Soil Health

However, soils play such a vital role in the planet’s survival that life cannot exist without them. They provide the basis for food and fiber production;…

Medical Engineering

Rice University Microchip Targets Cardiac Disease and Cancer

Heart disease is a silent killer, but new microchip technology from Rice University is expected to advance the art of diagnosis.During National Heart Health…

Health & Medicine

Pediatricians’ Role in Curbing Tobacco Use Among Youth

Denormalization is a strategy for changing social norms and reinforcing a public perception of tobacco use as a health-compromising, socially unacceptable…

Life & Chemistry

Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting's hydrogen harvest

Coating a lattice of tiny wires called Nanonets with iron oxide – known more commonly as rust – creates an economical and efficient platform for the process of…

Health & Medicine

Investing in Parks: A Path to Better Health Care Solutions

Investments in parks and recreational services have a dramatic effect on health and fitness, say Geof Godbey, professor emeritus of leisure studies, and Andrew…

Life & Chemistry

Human-Worm Relationships Illuminate Brain Evolution Insights

An international team of researchers, including a neuroscientist from the University of Florida, has produced more evidence that people have a close…

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