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Health & Medicine

Understanding Fracture Prevention: Key Insights for Patients

Newly released findings of a multinational survey conducted on behalf of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) show clear disparities between…

Life & Chemistry

Blood Vessels for Lab-Grown Tissues: A Biomedical Breakthrough

Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have broken one of the major roadblocks on the path to growing transplantable tissue in…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Technique Supercharges Virus-Killing Material

A simple technique to make a common virus-killing material significantly more effective is a breakthrough from the Rice University labs of Andrew Barron and…

Information Technology

Mobile App Puts Natural World at Fingers

The EarthObserver App, for the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, displays natural features and forces on land, undersea and in the air. Created at Columbia…

Studies and Analyses

“Liquid Pistons” Could Drive New Advances in Camera Lenses and Drug Delivery

A few unassuming drops of liquid locked in a very precise game of “follow the leader” could one day be found in mobile phone cameras, medical imaging…

Physics & Astronomy

Off-The-Shelf Electronics Turn Up Gain on Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy, the study of how atoms absorb and emit electromagnetic radiation, is like listening, too. The technique is central to a range of physics…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Trapped Sunlight Cleans Water

“These two technologies have been developed in parallel but there have been few efforts to employ the natural synergy between them,” says author Xuming Zhang…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Method for Reporting Solar Data

The method presents solar data in a framework that “can be used by policymakers, businesses, and the public to understand the magnitude of solar resources in a…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoparticles: Transforming Tumor Diagnosis and Treatment

Nanoparticles play a significant role in the development of future diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for tumors, for example as transporters for drugs or…

Technology Offerings

Laccat – Lactide polymerization with Zn-catalyst

The invention relates to the ring-opening polymerization of lactides with new zinc catalyst complexes, which in contrast to the catalysts used so far are…

Life & Chemistry

New Flying Reptile Species Discovered on B.C. Coast

Victoria Arbour says she was stumped when the small piece of jaw bone was first pulled out of of a fossil storage cabinet in the U of A's paleontology…

Life & Chemistry

Singapore Scientists Find Possible Off-Switch for Anxiety

1. Scientists from the Agency of Science, Technology and Research/Duke-NUS Neuroscience Research Partnership (A*STAR/Duke-NUS NRP), A*STAR’s Institute…

Studies and Analyses

Asthma in Youth Linked to Higher Caries Risk: New Findings

The work presented in the thesis has examined children, adolescents and young adults in the age groups 3, 6, 12-16 and 18-24, with and without asthma. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Melting Lithium in Cold: Innovative Insights Unveiled

Lithium is the first metal in the periodic table and is the least dense solid element at room temperature. It is most commonly known for its use in batteries…

Life & Chemistry

First Strawberry Genome Sequence Enhances Berry Quality

Tom Davis, professor of biological sciences at UNH, and postdoctoral researcher Bo Liu were significant contributors to the genome sequence of the woodland…

Physics & Astronomy

New insights into sun's photosphere reported by NJIT researcher at Big Bear

“The smallest scale photospheric magnetic field seems to come in isolated points in the dark intergranular lanes, rather than the predicted continuous sheets…

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