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Machine Engineering

Enhancing Machine Tools With Product Lifecycle Management

The portfolio extends from computer-aided product development at the CAD/CAM level up to virtual machines, and considerably shortens time-to-market for machine…

Earth Sciences

Storm Killers: LSU’s Earth Scan Lab Tracks Cold Water Upwellings in Gulf

Complex interactions between the ocean and overlying atmosphere cause hurricanes to form, and also have a tremendous amount of influence on the path, intensity…

Health & Medicine

Mayo Clinic Study: Radiation Post-Prostate Surgery Shows Few Side Effects

Researchers say the findings from Mayo Clinic's campuses in Florida and Minnesota suggest that patients and their physicians should not overly worry about…

Awards Funding

German Materials Efficiency Prize 2009 – Apply now!

In any manufacturing industry, material costs estimated to be approximately 42 % exceed personnel costs by more than twice (19 %).The German Materials…

Technology Offerings

Improved Metal Foams: Strengthening Structures for Safety

The french-german institution for security and defence (ISL) and Saarland University joined their efforts and developed a method to strengthen the structur of…

Corporate News

Siemens Partners with Airtricity for Clyde Wind Farm in Scotland

“The agreement for the Clyde project once again shows the high level of confidence placed in the proven Siemens wind turbine technology”, said Andreas Nauen,…

Life & Chemistry

Hyenas Outperform Primates in Cooperative Problem-Solving

Captive pairs of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) that needed to tug two ropes in unison to earn a food reward cooperated successfully and learned the…

Physics & Astronomy

CU-Boulder Scientists Prepare for Mercury Flyby on Sept 29

The spacecraft will zip within 142 miles of the planet's surface at more than 100,000 miles per hour on Sept. 29, taking high-resolution color images of the…

Health & Medicine

Hormone Therapy: A Key Consideration Before Mammograms

Annual mammography screening is credited with a significant reduction in breast cancer mortality in women older than 50, and is considered a pillar of routine…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Canker Disease Threatens Eucalyptus Plantations in Basque Country

The expansion of rapid growth plantations such as those of eucalyptus came about in order to meet the needs of the growing paper pulp industry. Blights and…

Studies and Analyses

Gut Worms Could Shield Against Dust Mite Allergies, Study Finds

Led by Dr Carsten Flohr, a Clinical Scientist from The University of Nottingham, and Dr Luc Nguyen Tuyen from the Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Service in…

Physics & Astronomy

The Trilogy is Complete — GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3

The latest image follows on from views, released over the last two weeks, of the sky as seen with the unaided eye and through an amateur telescope. This third…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

“Land grabs” for rice production due to supply threats

“To put it simply, there is not enough rice to feed the world,” says Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). “To meet the need and keep rice prices around US$300 a ton – which allows poor rice farmers to make some profit yet keeps rice affordable for poor rice consumers – we need to produce an additional 8–10 million tons of rice more than in the previous year for the next twenty years.” …

Life & Chemistry

UCLA Study Uncovers Chemicals for New Genetic Disorder Drugs

UCLA scientists have identified two chemicals that convince cells to ignore premature signals to stop producing important proteins. Published in the Sept. 28…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Achieve New Low Temperatures in Lab Samples

Physicists are continually reaching new lows as they reduce the temperatures of samples in their laboratories. But even nano-kelvins are not low enough to…

Studies and Analyses

Medaka Fish Show Color Shift With Ginger Gene Discovery

The medaka, found commonly in Southeast Asia, can be observed in a wide range of colours; from brown, to more uncommon orange and grey variations. Shoji…

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