Has it been the right move?A new study of the British pension fund industry, funded by the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management at the University…
In a pilot project that could help better manage the planet's strained natural resources, space-age technologies are helping a Washington state community…
Starting from the end of November, Queen Mary's Particle Physics Research Centre is the sole recipient of the T2K experiment data. The T2K Collaboration is a…
wIRA increases tissue temperature (+2.7°C at a tissue depth of 2 cm), tissue oxygen partial pressure (+32% at a tissue depth of 2 cm) and tissue perfusion….
Bacteria dance the electric slide, officially named electrokinesis by the USC geobiologists who discovered the phenomenon.Their study, published online today…
The AIM measurements have provided the first comprehensive global-scale view of the complex life cycle of these clouds, also called Polar Mesospheric Clouds…
Now scientists have discovered more small events, lasting one to 70 hours, which occur in somewhat regular patterns during the 15-month intervals between…
At the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, scientists discussed the latest findings from the LRO Camera, or LROC, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for…
Species distribution models are of only limited use in predicting the future distribution of mammals. This is the finding of a study of the climate niches of…
A father pushing his little child on a swing realizes a complex feedback procedure: the signal of the approaching swing is processed in his brain and actuated…
More than 40% of the final energy consumption in Germany is related to buildings. Heating, cooling, domestic hot water supply and the operation of electrical…
The invention discloses molecules, which are activated,
when function of Secreted Fizzled Related Protein 1
(SFRP1) is lost. SFRP1 is known to have…
2. TechnologyThe new cannula for spinal anaesthesia is provided with a rigid tube (2) whose distal end (6) gradually tapers in the direction of the tip (4) and…
At 06:00 UTC (1 a.m. ET) Laurence's center was located near 14.6 South and 125.4 East. Its center was just northeast of Derby, which is located on the coast in…
A new study links chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, with increased activity of cells that act as sentinels to activate the body's immune system. The University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs research adds to growing awareness of the immune system's role in COPD, a serious, progressive lung disease that affects more than 12 million Americans with wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightening and other symptoms. Understanding immune factors is key if doctors are to find better ways to detect and treat the disease early when patients might benefit most, believe some COPD researchers….
Monsoon rainfall has decreased over the last 50 years in rural areas where irrigation has been used to increase agriculture in northern India, said Dev Niyogi,…
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