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Environmental Conservation

Punk Penguins Protected

Located to the south of Puerto Deseado in the province of Santa Cruz, Parque Marino Isla Pingüino – which translates to “Penguin Island Marine Park” – will…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST Racetrack Ion Trap is a Contender in Quantum Computing Quest

The novel design is a first attempt to systematically scale up from traps that hold a few ions in a few locations to large trap arrays that can process many…

Life & Chemistry

Collaboration Reveals Insights into Cell Division with MitoCheck

The EU-funded project MitoCheck, which started in 2004, has now been successfully rounded off. Eleven European research teams and companies, coordinated by the…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring the Impact of ‘The Fly’ on Sci-Fi Cinema

Was it a horror film or a sci-fi spoof? Fans of the 1986 blockbuster “The Fly” have been debating the issue ever since but one point has always been accepted….

Technology Offerings

Ortho-metalated, chelate-stabilized benzylamines of the rare earth metals (SE)

The invention at hand provides, for the first time, thermally stable trisaryl compounds of the rare earth metals which are storable for a long time. These…

Technology Offerings

Nanoparticle Manufacturing Technique Reduces Platinum Usage

At a German University a manufacturing technique suitably for membrane electrodes was developed. The main advantage is the usage of less platinum (up to 30%),…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Holding Steady in an Atomic-Scale Tug-of-War

It’s a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by…

Life & Chemistry

Team Develops New Method for Producing Proteins Critical to Medical Research

Developed by Zhihao Zhuang, UD assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and his research group, the chemical method yields hundredsfold more…

Environmental Conservation

Students Design Innovative Wastewater Treatment Process for Removing Pharmaceuticals

The foursome has designed an advanced wastewater treatment system which would remove 90 per cent of pharmaceuticals and endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs)…

Materials Sciences

Researchers Discover New, Controllable State in Ferroelectric Nanowires

Lydie Louis and Laurent Bellaiche of the University of Arkansas; P. Gemeiner, G. Geneste and B. Dkhil of the École Centrale Paris; Inna Ponomareva of the…

Life & Chemistry

Copying Plant Anatomy Promises New Photovoltaics

The work by Sankaran Thayumanavan and colleagues at UMass Amherst, with others at the University of California-Riverside, is highlighted in the current issue…

Studies and Analyses

Worrying Linked to Better Mental Health: New Study Insights

The study, in the journal Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, looked at depression and two types of anxiety: anxious arousal, the fearful vigilance…

Life & Chemistry

Needle-Free Vaccination: A Breakthrough in Immunization

Most immunizations currently involve an injection in the arm. In the future, vaccination may be accomplished without the unpleasant jab of a needle: a team led…

Physics & Astronomy

Electrons’ New Spin: Orbital Angular Momentum Discovered

A new physical quantity of electrons—orbital angular momentum—has been generated by Masaya Uchida and Akira Tonomura at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in…

Environmental Conservation

First helicopter-darted wolf in Southern Europe by SLU team

This is the first helicopter-darted wolf in Europe outside of Fennoscandia. It will provide major insights into the role of wolves in ecosystems.Wolf expert…

Trade Fair News

EMBALLAGE 2010: Shaping a Sustainable Future in Packaging

EMBALLAGE 2010, which is being held for the 39th time, will gather all the international players in the packaging industry, including specialists in packaging…

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