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Health & Medicine

New Cardiac CT Tech Lowers Radiation Exposure for Patients

“Coronary CT angiography has generated great enthusiasm in recent years, due to its diagnostic accuracy in assessing patients with known or suspected coronary…

Health & Medicine

AAN Guideline Evaluates Treatments for Muscle Cramps

“It’s important for people to know that quinine should be avoided since the drug is still available in some countries,” said lead guideline author Hans D….

Environmental Conservation

Local Social Dynamics Key to Success of Tropical Marine Conservation Areas

“When people sacrifice to conserve, they want to benefit from that sacrifice,” says Patrick Christie, University of Washington associate professor of marine…

Information Technology

Robot Provides 3-D Images of Dangerous Locations

As part of the project, which began in 2008, students at Missouri S&T have built a remote-controlled robot that is equipped with an infrared camera and LIDAR…

Architecture & Construction

City as Ecosystem: New Models for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes

Emphasizing the city as ecology, or ecosystem, Luoni and his colleagues in the University of Arkansas Community Design Center lead the movement toward…

Technology Offerings

Phase Change ROM – Gallium Oxide for Permanent Data Storage

The Phase Change ROM is based on the invention that in amorphous GaOx crystallization of Ga2O3 causes a jump in the electrical conductivity of more than 7…

Technology Offerings

Transforming Biogas: Innovative Biocoal Production Explained

The present invention permits to produce biocoal by charging coal particles with minerals obtained from the processing fluid of biogas plants. The invention is…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancements in Phonon Lasers: A Step Toward Sound Innovation

Physicists have taken major step forward in the development of practical phonon lasers, which emit sound in much the same way that optical lasers emit light.The development should lead to new, high-resolution imaging devices and medical applications. Just as optical lasers have been incorporated into countless, ubiquitous devices, a phonon laser is likely to be critical to a host of as yet unimaginable applications….

Environmental Conservation

Helping Marine Species Thrive Amid Climate Change Insights

Palumbi will be discussing the results of his research in two talks at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San…

Studies and Analyses

How Improved Sleep Boosts Children’s Learning Potential

Children in primary school will participate in a special training to improve their sleep behaviour. Experts will then examine how this affects the children's…

Materials Sciences

MIT Partners with Peratech for Next-Gen Tactile Robotic Skin

The key to the sensing technology is Peratech's patented 'QTC' materials. QTC's, or Quantum Tunnelling Composites, are a unique new material type which…

Studies and Analyses

Animals Linked to Human Chlamydia Pneumoniae: New Insights

Unlike the sexually-transmitted form of Chlamydia, Chlamydia pneumoniae is a major bacterial germ that causes widespread respiratory disease in humans.The…

Life & Chemistry

Unpacking condensins' function in embryonic stem cells

The new study, by Thomas Fazzio and Barbara Panning (University of California, San Francisco) finds that two chromatin regulatory proteins essential for ES…

Environmental Conservation

Preparing Developing Countries for E-Waste Surge: Insights from UN

Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10…

Life & Chemistry

Soluble Protein Diffusion Through Sensory Cilia Explained

Transport of proteins to and from cilia is crucial for normal cell function and survival, and interruption of transport has been implicated in degenerative…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Diapers' contents could change way of finding intestinal disease

The procedure, which uses fecal samples rather than the oft-dreaded colonoscopy, was developed by Dr. Robert Chapkin and his colleagues, who have been studying…

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