This 34 by 20-degree wide image provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. However, its incredible beauty and appeal owe…
Depression is not uncommon in pregnant women. Between 14 and 23% of pregnant women will experience a depressive disorder while pregnant. In 2003, approximately…
A fossil supervolcano has been discovered in the Italian Alps' Sesia Valley by a team led by James E. Quick, a geology professor at Southern Methodist…
In her dissertation at Kalmar University in Sweden, Ann Novotny has found that the signal molecule acetylcholine (ACh) is important for the progress of cancer…
During the 1990s financial crisis, Swedish banks were criticised in the media for causing unnecessary corporate bankruptcies through, for example, increased…
The role political and economic powers play in shaping media discourses from viewpoints of religion, ideology and control in the Middle East will be the topic…
As the health care reform debate turns to cutting costs and improving treatment outcomes, two professors at Southern Methodist University in Dallas are…
A Tiny, Tunable Well of LightPhotonics, the science of using photons to carry information, promises to continue improving a wide variety of technologies, from…
“ICU-related muscle weakness is the number one factor in prolonging a patient's recovery and delaying their return to a normal life, including work and…
A study, published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine, also found that just two hours of training was enough to make first-responders faster and…
It enables a comprehensive automation of the process chain including all assembly and production steps and is particularly appropriate for small series. In…
Enclosed are new functionally relevant SNPs in the regulatory sequences of the human farnesyltransferase (FNTB)-gene, which encodes for the β-subunit of an…
The technology enables the evolutionary upgrading of existing single channel optical ring Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) to wavelength division multiplexing…
We offer a new type of semiconductor quantum-well inter-subband device, with a unique materials combination and sequence with very large energetic separation…
Method for enhancement of general stress resistance, based on improved reductant supply (NADPH) in the cytosol via Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH). …
Chitosan has a broad spectrum of industrial applications ranging from contact lenses and matrices for tissue engineering to immobilisation membranes for…