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Automotive Engineering

Insect-Inspired Night Cameras Enhance Auto Safety Innovations

The collaborative project aims to develop a new type of colour camera that in the future will help people drive cars more safely when it's dark outside. The…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights: Differentiating Lethal and Treatable Leukemias

A tumor's genetic profile is often useful when diagnosing and deciding on treatment for certain cancers, but inexplicably, genetically similar leukemias in…

Environmental Conservation

Polar Bears Shift Habitats in Southern Beaufort Sea Study

A long-term study showing the changes in habitat associations of polar bears in response to sea ice conditions in the southern Beaufort Sea has implications…

Studies and Analyses

Coronary Plaque Severity Rises in HIV-Infected Men, Study Finds

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found that relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection and minimal cardiac risk factors had…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s New Mirror Testing Dispels Superstitious Myths

Fast forward a couple of centuries from ancient time and myths to find NASA is developing a primary mirror, 21.3 feet in diameter, for use on the James Webb…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellites Track Edzani’s Power in Tropical Rainfall

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite's main mission is to monitor rainfall in the global tropics but has also proven very useful for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanoscience goes 'big'

Scientists in this field have created a multitude of nano scale materials, such as metal nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires. However,…

Life & Chemistry

Cold War offered odd benefit — it limited species invasions

The research found that during an extended period following World War II, when most trade and travel was interrupted between Eastern Europe and its western…

Health & Medicine

Each Pound at Birth Cuts TB Risk, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Michigan looked at how much protection additional birth weight added against developing the disease years later. They found…

Life & Chemistry

Warmer Climate May Reduce Trees’ Carbon Uptake Efficiency

As a result, more of the greenhouse gas will be left to concentrate in the atmosphere.”Our findings contradict studies of other ecosystems that conclude longer…

Medical Engineering

Robotic Vasectomy Reversal: Faster Recovery and Sperm Count

Sperm count after surgery is comparable over a year for the two procedures, but the robotic procedure appears to result in a quicker return of sperm count.”For…

Life & Chemistry

China Emerges as Key Player in Regenerative Medicine Advances

Chinese researchers have become the world's fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed scientific literature on clock-reversing regenerative medicine…

Information Technology

Record-Breaking Prime Number Decomposition Achieved

Extrapolating the trend from previous records in this area (512-bit in 1999, 663-bit in 2005, and the current 768-bit in 2009), it is reasonable to expect that…

Health & Medicine

New approach to fighting Alzheimer's shows potential in clinical trial

In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, patients typically suffer a major loss of the brain connections necessary for memory and information processing….

Physics & Astronomy

Golden Ratio Unveiled in Quantum Research Breakthrough

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well…

Life & Chemistry

Hedgehog Signaling’s Role in Fat Storage Control

Obesity is a widespread condition in humans and has many serious consequences. Not only are overweight people faced with surcharges on airplanes but they also…

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