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Courier Companies Face Uphill Battle in Delivering Time-sensitive Packages to Businesses in Urban Centres

Haider examined the challenges facing the express delivery service industry in Canada’s urban centres in his latest study. The Canadian EDS industry employs…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Grant Supports New York Center for Astrobiology in Search for Conditions of Life in the Universe

“We are looking for the conditions of life, rather than life itself,” said Douglas Whittet, director of the New York Center for Astrobiology and a Rensselaer…

Physics & Astronomy

UChicago Commits $50M to Giant Magellan Telescope

The University will provide $50 million to become a founding partner in the project called the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be able to produce images…

Environmental Conservation

Johns Hopkins Joins Study of Oil Spill Impact on Florida Ecosystem

Team members have begun collecting samples of water, sediment, marine animals and plant life in the Sarasota Bay region, which has not yet been impacted by the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Shaken and Stirred: ‘Self-Charging’ Batteries from Ambient Vibration

The battery will look like a microchip, but with a vibrating core, and it will harness energy from almost anything that shakes. Applications for the…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Help Save Endangered Pallid Sturgeon

The pallid sturgeon is known as the “dinosaur” of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers and has been on the endangered species list since 1990. This primitive…

Interdisciplinary Research

Out of the Gait: Cornell’s Robot Ranger Sets Untethered ‘Walking’ Record at 14.3 Miles

Ranger navigated 108.5 times around the indoor track in Cornell’s Barton Hall – about 212 meters per lap, and made about 70,000 steps before it had a stop and…

Health & Medicine

An Optimal Diet Starts with a High-Protein Breakfast

While humans maintain the ability to build muscle at any age, the effects of insufficient protein increase substantially in older adults, often leading to…

Health & Medicine

Panel Reviews Nut Benefits Ranging from Weight Management to Heart Health

Many people refrain from eating nuts, said Fereidoon Shahidi of Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada. However, studies show “little or no weight change”…

Life & Chemistry

Gene-Silencing Nanoparticles May Put End to Pesky Summer Pest

Research conducted by a Kansas State University team may help solve a problem that scientists and pest controllers have been itching to for years.Kun Yan Zhu,…

Life & Chemistry

Invaluable Inteins

“Inteins were originally found in nature and seen as an oddity before we knew their function,” says Dr. Paul Liu, professor in the department of Biochemistry…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Develop New Genomics-Based Approach to Understand the Origin of Cancer Subgroups

Scientists have long recognized that cancers may look the same under the microscope, but carry different mutations, respond differently to treatment and result…

Information Technology

Online Images Can Carry Location Data, Leave Users Vulnerable to “Cybercasing”

In an ICSI technical report published May 2, Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer reported that they were able to identify where images posted online were…

Earth Sciences

First-of-Its-Kind Map Details the Height of the Globe’s Forests

The map, based on data collected by NASA's ICESat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, should help scientists build an inventory of how much carbon the world’s forests…

Life & Chemistry

Chance Discovery Reveals Brain’s Flexibility in Vision Insights

Their results show the brain is more flexible and versatile than the computer it is often likened to, and even may lead to new tests for blinding diseases such…

Trade Fair News

Paris set to become Europe’s capital of E-Commerce in September 2010

“Thanks to its continuous growth, over the course of just a few years, the E-Commerce Paris event has become the leader among European online-retailing trade…

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