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IFA 2010: Discover Audanika’s SoundPrism Music Innovation

Audanika GmbH is the name of Fraunhofer IDMT’s latest spin-off that introduces itself to the public with a digital music instrument called “SoundPrism” for the…

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Edit Photos Effortlessly: Best Software for Stunning Results

Whether professional or hobby photographer – these days, thanks to common image editing software, every shot can be edited with a few clicks only and designed…

Studies and Analyses

How One Interaction Shapes a Child’s Information Seeking

“It shows that kids really pay attention to people's accuracy and they don't forget it, even after interacting with that person one time,” says psychology…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing Infant Survival in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

“We encourage women who have high risk pregnancies to talk with their health care provider about the care their baby may need after birth and about the…

Life & Chemistry

U-M Researchers Unveil Largest Psoriasis DNA Sample Collection

Millions of Americans struggling with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis are one step closer to a cure with the release of the first National Psoriasis Victor…

Health & Medicine

New Guidelines to Improve Sleep Disorders Care

BAP members, representative clinicians with a strong interest in sleep disorders and experts from the US and Europe got together in May 2009 in London, England…

Health & Medicine

Chronic Lyme Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment Insights

Some health care workers who call themselves “Lyme literate” insist that chronic Lyme disease is frequently diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians….

Studies and Analyses

Study Links PTSD to Increased Dementia Risk in Veterans

Results of a study reported in the September issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society suggest that Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder…

Health & Medicine

Risk of marijuana's 'gateway effect' overblown, new UNH research shows

Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illicit drugs as young adults has more to do with life factors such as employment status and stress, according…

Physics & Astronomy

Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists

Taken in 1997, a year before the French won the World Cup, Brazilian Carlos's goal held France to a frustrating draw but, now, a group of French physicists –…

Business and Finance

Small Business Workers to Gain ACA Tax Credit Benefits

16.6 million small business employees work in firms that will be eligible for tax credits under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new Commonwealth…

Physics & Astronomy

IceCube Neutrino Observatory Approaches Completion Milestone

In an article in the AIP's Review of Scientific Instruments, Francis Halzen, the principal investigator of the IceCube project, and his colleague Spencer Klein…

Environmental Conservation

Birds’ Flight Freedom Explored: Ground Factors Matter

It may seem like birds have the freedom to fly wherever they like, but researchers at the University of Missouri have shown that what's on the ground has a…

Business and Finance

Hourly Workforce Struggles Amid Economic Slowdown

The United States workforce, battered by an economic slowdown, now includes a record number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time due to reduced…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Dark Silicon to Boost Smartphone Battery Life

Dark silicon refers to the huge swaths of silicon transistors on today’s chips that are underused because there is not enough power to utilize all the…

Life & Chemistry

TGen Identifies New Drug Targets for Childhood Ewing’s Sarcoma

The first study of Ewing's sarcoma that screened hundreds of genes based on how they affect cell growth has identified two potential anti-cancer drug targets,…

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