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Protons from the 30-GeV Main Ring synchrotron were directed onto a carbon target, where their collisions produced charged particles called pions. These pions…
Curiously enough, the failure arises when the insulin-producing “beta” cells, located in the pancreas, themselves fail to import insulin properly. Similar…
“Voice disorders affect 30 percent of the general population and up to 60 percent of educators,” says Plesniak. “The objective of our work is to develop a…
The researchers will present their work next week at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics will take…
Robert Whittlesey and John Dabiri of the California Institute of Technology have developed a potentially more efficient wind farm design that maximizes the…
With its new Sirius Modular System for industrial controls, Siemens has succeeded not only in cutting down on the amount of wiring work but also in reducing…
The main invention content is a construction for the production of micro-structured function surface on substrates with ultra-short laser pulse of specific…
TRAIL has recently emerged as a novel potential anticancer agent. However, cancer cells are in specific patients resistant to TRAIL induced apoptosis….
Preliminary results from 1500 respondents show that those who own their own home are more likely to separate their rubbish (83 per cent) than those in rented…
In a new study, the amount of television viewed by many young children in child care settings doubles the previous estimates of early childhood screen time,…
Three quarters of cancer patients and survivors treated with chemotherapy suffer insomnia or sleep disorders that often become chronic conditions, hindering…
A protein known to stimulate blood vessel growth has now been found to be responsible for the cell overgrowth in the development of polyps that characterize…
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the…
Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of…
The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach the hydrogen-storage problem. The researchers found that the normally unreactive, noble gas…