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NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma-Rays From "Star Factories" in Other Galaxies

“Starburst galaxies have not been accessible in gamma rays before,” said Fermi team member Seth Digel, a physicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Open Source EtherNet/IP Adapter Stack Cuts Costs for Developers

The Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) of the Vienna University of Technology announced the release of the Open Source EtherNet/IP? Adapter Stack for…

Life & Chemistry

How Twilight Affects Birds’ Color Vision: New Insights

It has long been known that birds have highly developed color vision that vastly surpasses that of humans. Birds see both more colors and ultraviolet light….

Studies and Analyses

UI Study Uncovers New Pathway to Feel Your Heartbeat

The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience by researchers in the department of neurology in the Roy J. and…

Earth Sciences

African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making

In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new…

Physics & Astronomy

Starburst Galaxy Reveals Secrets of High-Energy Gamma Rays

The gamma rays observed by the team have energies more than a trillion times higher than the energy of visible light and are the highest-energy photons ever…

Health & Medicine

Researchers identify the three killer indicators that are even worse than high cholesterol

The team, led by Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at Warwick Medical School Dr Oscar Franco, has discovered that simultaneously having obesity,…

Materials Sciences

New Method for Industrial-Scale Carbon Nanotube Processing

Rice University scientists today unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances…

Life & Chemistry

Rice U. Lab Pioneers Search for New Zeolites Discovery

In all the world, there are about 200 types of zeolite, a compound of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent,…

Studies and Analyses

City Walkability Linked to Air Pollution Exposure: New Study

A new study compares neighborhoods' walkability (degree of ease for walking) with local levels of air pollution and finds that some neighborhoods might be good…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Second Pathway to Feeling Your Heartbeat

The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience by researchers in the department of neurology in the Roy J. and…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Contribute to Discovery of Gamma Rays from Starburst Galaxy

The discovery has just been published by the journal Nature. The study reports that researchers using the VERITAS array of four telescopes at the Fred Lawrence…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Proven Method Available to Significantly Reduce Energy Consumption in Street Lighting

Experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) estimate that about half of the approximately 13 million streetlights in America…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Ecosystems: Climate Change Impact Uncovered

Historically, many people, including marine scientists, have considered the abyssal plains, more than 2,000 meters below the sea surface, to be relatively…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanostructures on Optical Fiber Make "Hidden" PV Cells

Using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on optical fibers and coated with dye-sensitized solar cell materials, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Australia's Unique Platypus

University of Adelaide geneticist Dr Frank Grützner and his team have authored five of 28 papers which appear in two special issues of the Australian Journal…

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