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Materials Sciences

Allure of pineapple

Lanky models strutting in cotton, linen and silk, making statement for beautiful creations – why not make statement with a ‘pineapple’? Alluring dresses from…

Process Engineering

Enhanced Micro-Implants via Laser Sintering Technology

The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) plans on using laser sintering* to improve the surface of micro-implants, for example for use in the circulatory system…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring CYP2D6 and CYP3A4: Enhancing Drug Metabolism Insights

“My research demonstrates the benefits of combining traditional laboratory experiments with computer-based calculation models to understand and explain how the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Quantum Simulators and Supercomputers in Matter Phases

Transitions between different phases of matter are a phenomenon occurring in everyday life. For example water – depending on its temperature – can take the…

Health & Medicine

Detecting Early Tremor Signs: Effective Quantitative Methods

“The aim was to investigate whether quantitative measurement methods, in other words sensitive computer-based methods, could be used to detect small changes in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Black Aspergilli Species Found to Infect Corn

Using a molecular procedure they developed, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research leader Charles Bacon, microbiologist Dorothy Hinton, and Edwin…

Studies and Analyses

Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough: Metallacarborane Insights

New research by Rice University scientists suggests that a class of material known as metallacarborane could store hydrogen at or better than benchmarks set by…

Life & Chemistry

Neural Networks Uncover Distinct Tea Leaf Types

“This method makes it possible to clearly differentiate between the five types of tea – something that is often not easy to do by eye alone – by using analysis…

Life & Chemistry

Catalyst Sandwich: Advancing PCR Enzyme Mimics at Northwestern

Northwestern University researchers have taken another step towards realizing a new class of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) enzyme mimics, opening the door…

Life & Chemistry

Chromosomal Break Reveals New Puberty Gene Insights

It's also helped clear up why some patients with delayed puberty have no sense of smell, said Dr. Lawrence C. Layman, chief of the MCG Section of Reproductive…

Life & Chemistry

Key Leukemia Defense Mechanism Uncovered at VCU Massey

“Our findings provide new insights into the ways such cancer cells develop resistance to and survive treatment,” says Grant, associate director for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Report on Street Lighting Technologies Released by Nlpip

This report comes at a critical time when many municipalities, some with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are in the process of…

Physics & Astronomy

Newly Discovered Planet May Host Water on Its Surface

The planet, which is probably 30 percent larger than Earth, was discovered using one of the telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea. It orbits a…

Environmental Conservation

Mapping the San Andreas Fault: NOAA Scientists Lead the Way

The team includes scientists from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon State University, the California Seafloor Mapping Program, the U.S….

Life & Chemistry

Bio Meets Nano: Unlocking Nature’s Solar Energy Secrets

Our attempts to use solar energy continue to be very ineffective; the true masters of this craft are photosynthetic plants, algae, and bacteria. Science is…

Power and Electrical Engineering

York U’s Wireless Controller Empowers New Underwater Robot

AQUA, an amphibious, otter-like robot, is small and nimble, with flippers rather than propellers, designed for intricate data collection from shipwrecks and…

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