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Physics & Astronomy

Novel Zoom Objective Enhances UAV Imaging Capabilities

An small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) circles above the ground, capturing the typical green of a coniferous forest or the radiated heat from a town. The…

Environmental Conservation

New Ozone Detection Sensors from Fraunhofer Institute

The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF in Freiburg is developing improved chemical sensors that are not prohibitively expensive. One…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Offshore Wind and Wave Energy Devices Enhance Marine Life

What's more, it is possible to increase or decrease the abundance of various species by altering the structural design of foundation. This was shown by Dan…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

SLU’s Unique Evaluation Guides Quality and Impact Insights

This is the first result of the major evaluation of Quality and Impact that SLU had performed in 2008-2009.The aim of “Evaluation of Quality and Impact at SLU”…

Event News

Climate 2010: 3rd global Online Climate Conference calls for papers

Even though, or simply because of the limited success of the Copenhagen summit, climate change continues to be a relevant topic on the global agenda. Hamburg…

Studies and Analyses

People born in the 1940s not the spenders we thought they were

Like younger generations, Swedes born in the 1940s like to travel. Yet, they do not seem very interested in spending money on clothes, personal care and…

Business and Finance

New ComStage Bond Index ETFs Launch on Xetra

ETF name: ComStage ETF iBoxx € Liquid Sovereigns Diversified 3m-1 TR Asset class: bond index ETFISIN: LU0444605728Management fee: 0.12 percentDistribution…

Earth Sciences

Molecular Genealogy: Unveiling Arctic Sediment Bacteria Origins

They were discovered over 50 years ago but their origins have remained a mystery. Living in the sediment of the Arctic seabed around Spitsbergen are bacteria…

Life & Chemistry

Seeing a diagnosis: How an eye test could aid Alzheimer's detection

The research, led by Professors Francesca Cordeiro & Stephen Moss and published today in Cell Death & Disease, demonstrates a new technique that enables…

Life & Chemistry

Punishment Plays Key Role in Fig-Wasp Pollination Dynamics

In exchange for the pollination service provided by the wasp, the fig fruit provides room and board for the wasp's developing young. However, wasps do not…

Environmental Conservation

Genetic Analysis Challenges Antarctic Minke Whale Population Growth

Antarctic minke whales are among the few species of baleen whales not decimated by commercial whaling during the 20th century, and some scientists have…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular Communication Insights in Cancer Microenvironment

The paper will be made available online ahead of print at www.genesdev.org.Innate immune cells, including macrophages, comprise a large fraction of the…

Life & Chemistry

UK Study Unveils 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

Cancer Stem Cells Block Immune Response in Brain Tumors

Cancer-initiating cells that launch glioblastoma multiforme, the most lethal type of brain tumor, also suppress an immune system attack on the disease,…

Life & Chemistry

'Jekyll and Hyde' cell may hold key to muscular dystrophy, fibrosis treatment

The team found a new type of fibro/adipogenic progenitors, or FAPs, that generate fatty fibrous tissues when transplanted into damaged muscles in mice….

Studies and Analyses

Oral Hygiene Issues Among 19-Year-Olds: Key Study Insights

The results have been published in the Swedish Dental Journal. The study examined 500 randomly selected adolescents from Västra Götaland (Fyrbodal and…

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