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Process Engineering

High-Speed Laser Soldering for Flexible Copper Wire Connections

Manufacturing highly integrated, electro-engineering components in Europe primarily demands, in addition to high quality, a high amount of flexibility to…

Life & Chemistry

New DNA Method Enhances Criminal Tracing Accuracy

Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, working together with the Swedish National Laboratory of Forensic Science, SKL, have improved a critical part of…

Health & Medicine

Propolis Benefits: Unlocking Health Through Natural Composition

The benefits of this product lies in its composition and, thus, its study, identification and subsequent extraction provides a useful tool which enables making…

Studies and Analyses

Chewing Gum May Aid Weight Management and Boost Energy

A nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island studying the effects of chewing sugar-free gum on weight management has found that it can help to…

Studies and Analyses

Dementia Patients Face Higher Flu Mortality Risk: Study Insights

The three-pronged study, which analyzed geographic and demographic patterns of P&I and the relationship between P&I and health care accessibility, was…

Life & Chemistry

Darwin’s Advanced Ideas on Life’s Origins Revealed

This, coupled with the mention of the 'Creator' in the last paragraph of the book, led us to believe he was not willing to commit on the matter. An…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Vertebrate Skeletons: The Importance of Size

Vertebrates have in common a skeleton made of segments, the vertebrae. During development of the embryo, each segment is added in a time dependent manner, from…

Life & Chemistry

USM Unveils Plant Genome for Billion-Dollar Industry

The Minister of Higher Education Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin announced at CCB@USM yesterday that this major achievement could lead to many end products…

Power and Electrical Engineering

What Does a Futuristic, “Smart” Grid Look Like? How Would It Function?

In 2005, two years after the catastrophic power failure in the Northeast, Mantooth received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Gridworks…

Business and Finance

Research Could Boost Coastal Economics with Crustacean Molting on Demand

Soft-shelled blue crabs are a delicacy enjoyed by food lovers each spring and early summer when the crustaceans naturally molt their hard outer shell in the…

Information Technology

Bogus E-mails from FDIC Link Computer Users To Viruses

Warner says the spam is being delivered with one of two subject lines: • FDIC has officially named your bank a failed bank • You need to check your Bank…

Life & Chemistry

Real Life Vampires Don’t Wait For Halloween To Be Blood-Thirsty

As fun as it is to obsess over and be scared by these fictional vampires, the real things are much more fascinating. Here is some blood-curdling information…

Earth Sciences

Fortuitous Research Provides First Detailed Documentation of Tsunami Erosion

Now, for the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and…

Studies and Analyses

Mom Likes Me Best: Egg Size Predicts Offspring Survival

Reported in the November issue of The American Naturalist, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/605962 the study was conducted over two breeding seasons…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Silicon-Air Battery: Non-stop Power for Thousands of Hours

Created from oxygen and silicon (the second most plentiful element in the earth’s crust), such batteries would be lightweight, have an unlimited shelf life,…

Information Technology

Homeland Security Listening to Boats in Hudson River

Alexander Sutin and a team of acoustics experts at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey are developing a system that tracks the traffic by listening…

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