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Earth Sciences

Alabama Researchers Get Close View of Winter Storm

That turned out to be the case recently, however, as scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA's Earth Sciences Office used a network of…

Business and Finance

Research Recommends New Regulatory Structure to Mitigate Financial Risk in China

The new research by Honggeng Zhou, associate professor of decision sciences, and Wenjuan Xie, assistant professor of finance, both at UNH, is presented in the…

Transportation and Logistics

Team Designs Optimal Supply Chains for Disaster Relief

The team includes Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, and Min Yu, a doctoral student in management science at the…

Materials Sciences

Water No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel

Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf…

Health & Medicine

HIV Causes Rapid Aging in Key Infection-Fighting Cells

Yet those over 50 also progress to AIDS faster than adults in their 20s or 30s. And those in the younger age bracket — even those responding well to…

Materials Sciences

Using complex electron systems to create green materials

By Hidenori Takagi, Group Director, Complex Electrons and Functional Materials Research Group, RIKEN Advanced Science InstituteAt the L'Aquila Summit held in…

Life & Chemistry

Maintaining independence

As part of the immune response to foreign antigens, naïve T cells mature into different types of helper T cells. TH1 cells and TH17 cells, for example, secrete…

Life & Chemistry

Gearing-up for spring

The genes that regulate the process called photoperiodism—the seasonal responses induced in organisms by changing day length—have been found by researchers…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Hybrid Drives: Cleaner City Buses for Sustainable Transit

Rather than powering the rear axle via an automatic transmission, as usually, the diesel engine in the Elfa system drives a generator that uses power…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar Panels Use New Algorithm to Maximize Sunlight Efficiency

Thanks to a new algorithm based on astronomical data, the solar panels track the sun in line with not only the time of day but also the time of year and the…

Event News

Bauhaus.SOLAR: Shaping Sustainable Architecture in 2011

Announcement4th International Congress8 – 9 November 2011, Erfurt, GermanyArchitecture is changing. Energy and climate relevant requirements are influencing…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe

The tiny, dim object, called UDFj-39546284, is a compact galaxy of blue stars that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang. More than 100 such…

Materials Sciences

New Transistor for Plastic Electronics Exhibits the Best of Both Worlds

Online in the journal Advanced Materials, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology describe a new method of combining top-gate organic field-effect…

Materials Sciences

Assessing Nano Safety: Health Risks of Nanotechnology Explained

The rapid development of nanotechnology has increased fears about the health risks of nano-objects. Are these fears justified? Do we need a new discipline,…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Plasmons: Energy Packets in Solid Materials

Just as photons are bundles of light energy, plasmons are energy packets of plasma oscillations—oscillations of the electron density in a solid body, which are…

Information Technology

Exploring Universal Intelligence: Key Factors and Insights

This is just one of the many determining factors of the universal intelligence test. “The others are that it can be applied to any subject – whether biological…

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