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Information Technology

Transforming 2-D Photos Into 3-D Faces for Forensic Security

Xin Guan and Hanqi Zhuang of Florida Atlantic University on Boca Raton explain how Biometrics, the technology of performing personal identification or…

Studies and Analyses

New Research: Birth Control Pills Don’t Cause Weight Gain

“A simple Google search will reveal that contraceptives and the possibility that they may cause weight gain is a very highly debated topic,” said Alison…

Business and Finance

New Mortgage Design Aims to Reduce Home Foreclosures

Brent Ambrose, Smeal Professor of Real Estate and director of the Institute for Real Estate Studies at the Penn State Smeal College of Business, and Richard…

Life & Chemistry

Possible Link Between Antioxidants and Infertility in Females

New research by Prof. Dekel and her team, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has revealed an unexpected possible…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Report Examines Potential of Energy Storage Technologies for Next-Generation Electrical Grid

Advanced Materials and Devices for Stationary Electrical Energy Storage Applications documented the findings of a multidisciplinary workshop of materials…

Studies and Analyses

Stress, Anxiety Both Boon and Bane to Brain

“That edge sounds good. It sounds adaptive. It sounds like perception is enhanced and that it can keep you safe in the face of danger,” says Alexander…

Trade Fair News

UBIFRANCE ushers in French presence at EUROSHOP 2011 in Düsseldorf

The French Pavilion, which has been organised by UBIFRANCE, will include 26 companies across three areas devoted to retail. EUROSHOP is the leading trade fair…

Studies and Analyses

Spike Reported in Number of People with HIV Having a Stroke

“Our findings showed that stroke hospitalizations in the United States decreased by seven percent in the general population within the last decade while stroke…

Materials Sciences

Triblock Spheres: Simplifying Complex Structures with Innovation

Their advance, published in the Jan. 20 issue of Nature, utilizes a new class of self-assembling materials that they developed. The team demonstrated that they…

Life & Chemistry

Giant Crayfish Discovered in Local Creek by Biologists

The researchers found their first specimen under one of the biggest rocks in the deepest part of a creek that has been a (literal) stomping ground for aquatic…

Machine Engineering

Update for Simatic WinCC Version 7 supports client virtualization

The virtualization of clients is one of the central innovations of the Service Pack 2 offered by the Siemens Industry Automation Division for Simatic WinCC…

Earth Sciences

VIMS Team Advances Polar Research with Shipboard Studies

Researcher Walker Smith of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, has been conducting shipboard studies of biological…

Studies and Analyses

New Kidney Cancer Insights: Gene Mutations Uncovered

In a collaborative project involving scientists from three continents, researchers have identified a gene that is mutated in one in three patients with the…

Social Sciences

Mathematical Model Sheds Light on Society Emergence and Collapse

The research, led Sergey Gavrilets, associate director for scientific activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and a…

Life & Chemistry

Roundworm Insights Illuminate Pancreatic Cancer Pathway

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 43,000 Americans were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and more than 36,000 died from the…

Environmental Conservation

Speeding up Mother Nature's very own CO2 mitigation process

Greg Rau, a senior scientist with the Institute of Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz and who also works in the Carbon Management Program at Lawrence Livermore…

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