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Siemens Expands Ionpure LX Line with New CEDI Module

Siemens recently introduced the Ionpure LX-45Z continuous electrodeionization (CEDI) module for industrial post-reverse osmosis (RO) water purification. The…

Materials Sciences

Rutgers Discovery Advances Efficient Plastic Solar Cells

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for…

Environmental Conservation

Land 'evapotranspiration' taking unexpected turn: huge parts of world are drying up

Most climate models have suggested that evapotranspiration, which is the movement of water from the land to the atmosphere, would increase with global warming….

Life & Chemistry

New Oral Delivery System Targets Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

In the Oct. 10 advance online edition of the journal Nature Materials, researchers describe how they encapsulated short pieces of RNA into engineered particles…

Process Engineering

Contact-Free Liquid Steel Temperature Measurement Boosts EAF Productivity

Simetal RCB Temp from Siemens VAI Metals Technologies offers operators of electric arc furnaces (EAF) a precise, contact-free method to measure steel bath…

Event News

Bauhaus.SOLAR 2010: Advancing Sustainable Construction Solutions

The German government's long-term energy concept places major demands on the construction sector. The energy consumption of buildings is supposed to be reduced…

Materials Sciences

Bioasphalt Developed at Iowa State to be Used, Tested on Des Moines Bike Trail

That finding recently moved from Williams’ laboratory at the Institute for Transportation’s Asphalt Materials and Pavements Program at Iowa State to a…

Life & Chemistry

Bee Colony Collapse Associated with Viral, Fungal Infection

Shan Bilimoria, a professor and molecular virologist, said the bees may be taking a one-two punch from both an insect virus and a fungus, which may be causing…

Life & Chemistry

Adult Rabbit Cells Recast as Stem Cells Show Lab Potential

These induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells of rabbits are likely to be used as a laboratory model of human iPS cells, the researchers say—in particular, for…

Life & Chemistry

Rocking the death dance

A RIKEN-led team of molecular biologists has determined why human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells undergo apoptosis, or…

Life & Chemistry

Study identifies neural pathways governing switching of fear responses in the zebrafish

A new study on the behavior of the zebrafish by researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute has uncovered a key role for a region of the brain called the…

Studies and Analyses

Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Care: Key Findings Explained

Studies have demonstrated that black and Hispanic women are less likely to receive recommended breast cancer treatments than white women, but few studies have…

Information Technology

IT Industry’s Carbon Challenge: Innovating for Efficiency

Unless the IT industry adopts new energy-efficient technologies in the coming decade, it runs a serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Study-Abroad Students Drink More Alcohol

New results from University of Washington researchers point to why some students drink more alcohol while abroad and suggest ways to intervene.”We hear stories…

Life & Chemistry

UT Southwestern Leptin Trial for Type 1 Diabetes Patients

This is the first type 1 diabetes treatment trial involving leptin, which is naturally produced by fat cells and involved in body-weight regulation. For this…

Environmental Conservation

Monarch Butterflies Use Medicinal Plants to Protect Offspring

“We have shown that some species of milkweed, the larva's food plants, can reduce parasite infection in the monarchs,” says Jaap de Roode, the evolutionary…

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