A Hurricane Watch is already in effect for Johnston Island. That means hurricane conditions are possible within the next 48 hours. A Hurricane Warning may be…
Two eminent scientists who have done pioneering work on the intricate relationship between agriculture, climate and the environment, and who have enhanced our…
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Faculty of Engineering (FENG) has recently set up a Specialty Optical Fibre Fabrication Laboratory in its…
For decades, sea-level rise, land subsidence, and a decrease in river sediment have caused vast swaths of the Mississippi Delta to vanish into the sea. The…
The facility has just opened as the largest tenant in the new Maryland International Incubator, a joint project of the University of Maryland and the state…
Researchers from the University’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) worked with an international team of genomics researchers to analyse the genetic…
The compact system can produce synthetically focused images of objects – at different planes in front of the camera – at speeds of up to 30 images per second….
These animals and others also can repair damaged heart tissue and injured structures in the eye. In contrast, humans have only rudimentary regenerative…
However, researchers at Texas Tech University, the University of Kansas and University of Florida have found that the animal’s strange body actually made it a…
Today, just about anywhere there is water, there can be toxic algae. The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations, but a sudden warming in the…
The region’s geology makes an earthquake-triggered tsunami inevitable and imminent in geologic time, Wang says, yet coastal towns and cities in the northwest…
New research now reveals that these regulatory differences between mother and daughter cells are directly linked to how they prepare for their next split. The…
The novel peptide exhibits a higher sensitivity than any other known diagnostic test for celiac disease. It features the detection by antibodies from patient…
Novel bisphosphonates with prolonged carbon chain can be synthesized in a one-step procedure and show clear inhibition of cell death in vitro. Aerosols of the…
A novel arrangement, namely cascading with “resistive diode boosting”, makes it possible to increase the output voltage of MOS power amplifiers. The invention…
Object-oriented programming languages with garbage collection such as Java considerably increase programmer productivity and software quality. A novel…