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Environmental Conservation

Reducing Emissions in Developing Countries: A Path to Poverty Alleviation

In the developing world, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is often seen as being in conflict with alleviating poverty, since improving the standard of living…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Switch Found to Control Neuronal Migration in Brain

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have identified key components of a signaling pathway that controls the departure of neurons from the brain…

Business and Finance

Siemens increases patents granted to nearly 58,000

All in all, it’s another demonstration of the innovative power of the more than 30,000 R&D employees who work at Siemens. The total number of patents granted…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UX:3 Chip Delivers 50% Brighter LED Flash for Smartphones

In combination with a new package the new UX:3 chip is 50 percent brighter than the precursor package. In combination with an optimized lens, the light is much…

Process Engineering

Optimized Production of Solar Absorbers

A new laser welding process promises both an enormous potential for saving energy and higher welding strengths for the manufacturing of solar absorbers. The…

Studies and Analyses

Scientists Challenge Fisheries Health Test in New Study

The findings – published this week in Nature – followed an examination of whether changes in fishery catches reflect changes in the structure of marine food…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding CD4 T Cell Death in HIV Infection Insights

Scientists at Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology have solved a long-standing mystery about HIV infection–namely how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T…

Life & Chemistry

Neuroscientists Discover Faces Can Appear Male or Female

Neuroscientists at MIT and Harvard have made the surprising discovery that the brain sees some faces as male when they appear in one area of a person's field…

Health & Medicine

Decade of Transplant Innovations Boosts Blood Cancer Survival

Among the major findings of the study, which compared transplant-patient outcomes in the mid-'90s with those a decade later: After adjusting for factors known…

Physics & Astronomy

Pulsating Star Mystery Unveiled Using HARPS Telescope

Grzegorz Pietrzyñski introduces this remarkable result: “By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, along…

Physics & Astronomy

Bonn physicists create a 'super-photon'

Physicists from the University of Bonn have developed a completely new source of light, a so-called Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of photons. Until…

Life & Chemistry

E. Coli Successfully Produces Erythromycin A Antibiotic

Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have reported the first successful production of the antibiotic erythromycin A, and two variations, using…

Life & Chemistry

How Pathogens Hijack Plant Nutrients: New Research Insights

A research team led by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Plant Biology developed a novel trick for identifying how pathogens hijack plant nutrients to…

Life & Chemistry

How Melanoma Tumors Evade Drug Treatment: Key Insights

The past year has brought to light both the promise and the frustration of developing new drugs to treat melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Early…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding How HIV Depletes CD4 T Cells in Human Tissue

“In [infected] primary human tonsils and spleens, there is a profound depletion of CD4 T cells,” said Warner Greene of The Gladstone institute for Virology and…

Life & Chemistry

Danish Researchers Unlock Secrets to Sustainable Weight Loss

With this diet, you can also eat until you are full without counting calories and without gaining weight. Finally, the extensive study concludes that the…

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