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Power and Electrical Engineering

New Solar Inverters Reach 98.4% Efficiency Milestone

The three-phase transformerless inverters with graded power outputs of 500, 1000, 1500, and 2000 kilowatts achieve an efficiency level of 98.4 percent. The…

Health & Medicine

Medical researcher's discovery may explain how certain cancers develop

Yoichi Kato, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, and his lab team found that the gene — known in scientific shorthand as BCL6 —…

Health & Medicine

Muscle Mass and Strength Key to Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

To gauge the effect of sarcopenia on insulin resistance (the root cause of Type 2 diabetes) and blood glucose levels in both obese and non-obese people, UCLA…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Eastern Pacific for Tropical Development Insights

AIRS, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument on Aqua, provides scientists with infrared satellite imagery. That imagery measures cloud top temperatures…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacterial Signaling Molecule Enhances Vaccine Development

Many disease-causing microbes carry pumps that expel antibiotics, making the bugs hard to kill with standard drugs.Ironically, these same pumps could be the…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors Strong Thunderstorms in Tropical Cyclone Near Hong Kong

The low pressure area is located near 20.4 North and 115.3 East, about 130 nautical miles southeast of Hong Kong. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over System 93W…

Materials Sciences

Advancements in Carbon Sponges: A New Era in CO2 Capture

The Berkeley Lab chemist leads a diverse team of scientists whose goal is to quickly discover materials that can efficiently strip carbon dioxide from a power…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Sperm Stem-Cell Technique Produces Genetically Modified Rats

Now researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have added another experimental research animal to the scientific stable: the rat.In a new study appearing in…

Life & Chemistry

Great Pond Experiment: Local vs. Regional Biodiversity Insights

Scientist Jon Chase once worked in a lab that set up small pond ecosystems for experiments on species interactions and food webs.”We would try to duplicate…

Life & Chemistry

How Environment Shapes Great Tits’ Vibrant Plumage Color

Alain Jacot, researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and colleagues analyzed the yellow coloring of breast feathers of great tits….

Life & Chemistry

New Method for Identifying Glycosylated Proteins Unveiled

Many biological mechanisms like immune response, apoptosis or pathogenesis of diseases are based on the subsequent transformation of single components of…

Technology Offerings

New Fungal Isolate Boosts Plant Protection Against Insects

Scientists of the University of Göttingen developed a new endophytic fungal isolate for plant protection against herbivorous insects. The isolate growths…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Wood Protection Against Termites Without Toxins

Is it possible to protect wood against termites without the use of heavily toxic compounds? Scientists at University of Göttingen (Germany), identified the use…

Studies and Analyses

Household Detergents Linked to Harmful NDMA in Wastewater

The study sheds new light on possible environmental sources of this poorly understood water contaminant, called NDMA, which is of ongoing concern to health…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Proton-Halo State in Flourine-17

A halo may be difficult to acquire in terms of virtue, but it can also be tough to calculate in terms of physics. Thomas Papenbrock, associate professor of…

Life & Chemistry

Yeast Discovery: Plant Hormone Accelerates Infection Process

In their ongoing studies of how yeast (fungi) can infect a host and cause disease, a research team at the Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Worcester…

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