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NASA's TRMM Sees Some Heavy Rains in Neki as it Heads Toward Johnston Island

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…

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Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize 2009: Honoring Pioneering Scientists

Two eminent scientists who have done pioneering work on the intricate relationship between agriculture, climate and the environment, and who have enhanced our…

Information Technology

PolyU engineering researchers put fibre optics to good use

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Faculty of Engineering (FENG) has recently set up a Specialty Optical Fibre Fabrication Laboratory in its…

Earth Sciences

Cuts to Mississippi levees could build new land in sinking delta

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…

Business and Finance

Novel Incubator Arrangement Draws Substantial Chinese Investment

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…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Ancient Bison Genetic Treasure Trove for Farmers

Researchers from the University’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD) worked with an international team of genomics researchers to analyse the genetic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Research Brings “Invisible” Into View

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….

Life & Chemistry

A Master Mechanism for Regeneration?

These animals and others also can repair damaged heart tissue and injured structures in the eye. In contrast, humans have only rudimentary regenerative…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Flying Pterosaur Also Sailed Seas

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…

Earth Sciences

Killer Algae a Key Player in Mass Extinctions

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…

Earth Sciences

Tsunami Evacuation Buildings: Another Way to Save Lives in the Pacific Northwest

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…

Life & Chemistry

Checkered History of Mother and Daughter Cells Explains Cell Cycle Differences

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…

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New Diagnostic Marker for Celiac Disease Unveiled

The novel peptide exhibits a higher sensitivity than any other known diagnostic test for celiac disease. It features the detection by antibodies from patient…

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Bisphosphonates: New Inhibitors of Acid Sphingomyelinase

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…

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Boost MOS Power Amplifiers With HiVP-CMOS Innovation

A novel arrangement, namely cascading with “resistive diode boosting”, makes it possible to increase the output voltage of MOS power amplifiers. The invention…

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New Processor Features Integrated Real-Time Garbage Collection

Object-oriented programming languages with garbage collection such as Java considerably increase programmer productivity and software quality. A novel…

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