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Environmental Conservation

EPA's new green parking lot allows scientists to study permeable surfaces that may help the environment

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a study that will investigate ways to reduce pollution that can run off paved surfaces and improve how…

Machine Engineering

Boost Efficiency in the Converting Industry with Automation Solutions

The engineering overhead for machinery and plant can be considerably reduced using the software package ‘Converting Toolbox’ from Siemens. Services such as…

Environmental Conservation

Uncovering Household Dust: Where Does It All Come From?

In the study, David Layton and Paloma Beamer point out that household dust consists of a potpourri that includes dead skin shed by people, fibers from carpets…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pumpkin Skin: A Natural Defense Against Germs

In the study, Kyung-Soo Hahm, Yoonkyung Park and colleagues note that some disease-causing microbes are becoming resistant to existing antibiotics. As a…

Health & Medicine

New Injectable Facial Filler Technique Enhances Comfort & Recovery

These and other benefits of a new injection technique that UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are helping pioneer are outlined in the October…

Physics & Astronomy

LANL Roadrunner Advances Nonlinear Physics for High-Power Lasers

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing…

Medical Engineering

High-Definition Colonoscopy Enhances Polyp Detection Rates

They say their findings, presented today at the annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in San Diego, Calif., are not only important because…

Physics & Astronomy

New High-Res Milky Way Panorama by Physicist Axel Mellinger

Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the process of making the panorama in the November issue of Publications of the…

Physics & Astronomy

Follow the launch of ESA's SMOS and Proba-2 satellites

SMOS, ESA's water mission, is the first satellite designed both to map sea surface salinity and monitor soil moisture on a global scale, thus contributing to…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Funding Plant Breeding: Strategies for Sustainable Innovation

Worldwide demand for a safe and secure food supply is growing with plant breeding at the forefront of sustainability discussions; however many research…

Earth Sciences

Autosub6000 Explores Depths of 3.5 Miles in Atlantic

Autosub6000 was working in regions of the Iberian Abyssal Plain in the North Atlantic deeper than 5600 metres and also around the steep and rugged terrain of…

Health & Medicine

Diet and Gut Bacteria: Key to a Healthier Immune System

The indigestible part of all plant-based foods pushes its way through most of the digestive tract unchanged, acting as a kind of internal broom. When it…

Science Education

ESMT Launches New Scholarships for Full-Time MBA Candidates

ESMT European School of Management and Technology is offering several additional merit-based scholarships for applicants to the Full-time MBA program beginning…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Laser Technology Enhances Solar Collector Efficiency

The sun is the energy source not only done for photovoltaic cells but also for thermal solar collectors. Whereas photovoltaic cells transform the sun's energy…

Life & Chemistry

Geneticists Make Major Breakthrough in Plant Pathogen Defense

It attacks important cultivated plants such as rice, peppers, tomatoes and citrus fruits by manipulating the genes of these plants. Biologists at the Martin…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Rot Resistant Wheat: A Solution for Australian Farmers

Crown Rot, which is a chronic problem throughout the Australian wheat belt, is caused by the fungus Fusarium.Dr Chunji Liu and his CSIRO Plant Industry team in…

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