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Materials Sciences

How a Snail Shell Inspires Innovations in Armor Design

New insights about a tiny snail that lives on the ocean floor could help scientists design better armor for soldiers and vehicles, according to MIT researchers.

Health & Medicine

Staring, sleepiness, other mental lapses more likely in patients with Alzheimer's

Cognitive fluctuations include excessive daytime sleepiness, staring into space and disorganized or illogical thinking.”If you have these lapses, they don't by…

Health & Medicine

Study Links Appendicitis to Viral Infections: Insights Unveiled

And if you do, is it necessarily an emergency that demands immediate surgery?Yes and no, according to a new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons…

Environmental Conservation

University of Miami Launches R.J. Dunlap Marine Program

The University of Miami (UM) today announced the inauguration of the R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program, a joint program of the Rosenstiel School of…

Health & Medicine

Drowsiness, Staring, and Other Mental Lapses May Signal Alzheimer’s Disease

These mental lapses, also called cognitive fluctuations, are common in a type of dementia called dementia with Lewy bodies, but researchers previously did not…

Life & Chemistry

Llama Proteins Could Play a Vital Role in the War on Terror by Detecting World’s “Most Poisonous Poisons”

The BoNT-detecting substances are antibodies –proteins made by the body to fight diseases–found in llamas. BoNT are about 100 billion times more toxic than…

Studies and Analyses

Study Advances New Target for CNS Drug Development

Researchers led by Royce Mohan, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science in the UK College of Medicine, found that the small molecule withaferin…

Life & Chemistry

Study Suggests Theory for Insect Colonies As ‘Superorganisms’

For more than a century, biologists have marveled at the highly cooperative nature of ants, bees and other social insects that work together to determine the…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Organic Recovery After Whole Cell Biotransformation

In the method according to the invention the culture medium is added olafluor and/or stannous fluoride at the end of the cultivation time. The bioemulsifiers…

Technology Offerings

Exploring Benzoquinone-Based Antioxidants for Better Health

Most quinones, with coenzyme Q10 as their best known representative, are seen as very efficient radical scavengers and antioxidants, commonly acting in a way…

Technology Offerings

New Species-Independent Method for Detecting Biological Material

The SAPD-PCR (Specific amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR) is a species-independent detection method that allows the determination of the genetic relationship of…

Technology Offerings

Heparin Nitroxide Derivatives: Enhanced Antioxidant Properties

Heparin Nitroxide Derivatives possess antioxidant and paramagnetic properties and perform the role of a scavenging agent . Therefore they are applicable to the…

Technology Offerings

Enhancing Precision: The Role of Parting and Grooving Tools

High precision tooling is the cornerstone of mechanical engineering enabling faster and more accurate production of machines and components for all the…

Corporate News

Siemens upgrades 5 meter plate mill at Xiangtan Iron & Steel …

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., a Chinese steelmaker, to supply equipment for a…

Physics & Astronomy

ExoMars: Exploring Martian Atmosphere and Mysterious Methane

Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious methane…

Architecture & Construction

Heat-Resistant Adhesive Enhances Seville’s Metropol Parasols

The Metropol Parasols will be the new centerpiece of Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville. As well as being an eye-catching work of art, the mushroom-like…

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