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Power and Electrical Engineering

Accelerating Scanning Probe Microscopes by 1000 Times

Physicists of Saarland University have developed a technology that could accelerate scanning probe microscopes by a factor of 1000. The operation principle is…

Process Engineering

New Ultrasonic Flowmeter Boosts Hydrocarbon Industry Accuracy

This approach, which only Siemens offers, allows the externally mounted transducers to be calibrated for higher accuracy. It also has the additional benefit…

Medical Engineering

Gene Therapy Breakthrough Restores Vision in Mice

Take a look at this: Scientists from Buffalo, Cleveland, and Oklahoma City made a huge step toward making the blind see, and they did it by using a form of…

Life & Chemistry

Montana State Research: Bile’s Role in E. Coli Signals

An SGM press release said the findings could allow us to better protect food from contamination by these harmful bacteria, as well as understand how they…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Optimizing Mission Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

While unmanned systems currently rely on the automation of low-level functions, such as navigation, stabilization and trajectory, operating these systems is…

Business and Finance

Rural Oregonians Use Less Public Assistance Despite Poverty

OSU researchers Deana Grobe and Bobbie Weber, along with Elizabeth Davis of the University of Minnesota, found that the rates of use of such programs as work…

Life & Chemistry

From alpaca to zebra finch — a decade of cataloguing life's diversity

Ensembl, a genome annotation system co-developed and jointly run by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute,…

Studies and Analyses

Biofeedback Outperforms EGS and Massage for Chronic Rectal Pain

“The importance of this work is that chronic rectal pain is relatively common and has been very frustrating to treat – nothing seems to work for more than a…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Optimizing Spray Application for Pest Management in Greenhouses

In Belgium, ornamental plants account for almost 0.46 billion euro in sales, or about 34% of total horticultural production output. For growers, finding ways…

Life & Chemistry

Carbon nanostructures — elixir or poison?

A Los Alamos National Laboratory toxicologist and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have documented potential cellular damage from…

Machine Engineering

'Lighting a match in a tornado' is 1 of multiple feats for propulsion center

Only today, he is celebrating the award of his most recent patent on a significantly more sophisticated design –– a novel ignitor for combustion and supersonic…

Life & Chemistry

Schizophrenia Mutation Disrupts Brain Communication Pathways

The strongest known recurrent genetic cause of schizophrenia impairs communications between the brain's decision-making and memory hubs, resulting in working…

Studies and Analyses

Unequal Leg Length Linked to Osteoarthritis Treatment Insights

Developing early strategies for treatment may be possible, says Derek Cooke, Queen's University adjunct professor and a co-author of the study. “Most…

Studies and Analyses

88,000 U.S. Kids Lose Immigrant Parents to Deportation

The United States government has deported the lawful immigrant parents of nearly 88,000 citizen children in just a decade, according to a new report released…

Earth Sciences

Interactive Map Reveals Future Climate Changes in March

On the last day of the month, Climate Central has just published an interactive animated map showing what we might expect in Marches to come as the climate…

Studies and Analyses

Poor Sleep Perception Linked to Postpartum Mood in New Moms

Results indicate that both objective and subjective nighttime sleep significantly worsened with decreased total sleep time and sleep efficiency after giving…

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