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Life & Chemistry

Tracking Darwin’s Route, Scientist to Follow Her Nose

Like Charles Darwin before them, Monell sensory neuroscientist Sanne Boesveldt, PhD, and her collaborator Karlijn van Stralen, PhD, an epidemiologist at the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Hankering for Molecular Electronics? Grab the New NIST Sandwich

The research team, which includes collaborators from the University of Maryland, has found a simple method of sandwiching organic molecules between silicon and…

Information Technology

Who Are You? Mobile ID Devices Find Out Using NIST Guidelines

Devices that gather, process and transmit an individual’s biometric data—fingerprints, facial and iris images—for identification are proliferating. Previous…

Life & Chemistry

Newly Improved NIST Reference Material Targets Infant Formula Analysis

The new Standard Reference Material (SRM 1849) for Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula, represents a significant improvement over the now discontinued SRM 1846,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Penetrating Insights: NIST Airframe Tests Help Ensure Better Shielding for Flight

Recent tests by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide much needed, independent data on how electromagnetic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Frequency Converter Enables Ultra-High Sensitivity Infrared Spectrometry

The technique can measure the spectrum of the specific wavelengths of near infrared light used widely in telecommunications as well as the very weak infrared…

Environmental Conservation

Marine Viruses May Contribute to Ocean Energy

Technion professor Oded Béjà and colleagues suggest that the viruses, or marine phages, may use the genes to gain a competitive advantage over the bacteria…

Life & Chemistry

European REACH Legislation for Chemicals May Require More Animals and Funds than Estimated

However, implementation of the regulation may require 54 million research animals and €9.5 billion ($13.4 billion) over the next 10 years, which represents 20…

Machine Engineering

New CNC Control System for Compact Class Machine Tools

The control includes such exacting CNC functions as kinematic transformations and an efficient tool management system. CNC, PLC, operator panel and axis…

Earth Sciences

Northern Hemisphere Pollution’s Impact on Australian Rainfall

Main sponsors:World Climate Research ProgrammeInternational Geosphere Biosphere ProgrammeMonash UniversityNew research announced at the international Water in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Tools Transforming Sustainable Farming Practices

Environmentalists are just as fond of talking about it as are politicians, economists or marketing experts – “sustainability” has become a buzzword. The…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Could Prevent Inherited Mitochondrial Disease

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders…

Studies and Analyses

Body Image Pressure Among Kids: Insights from Harvard Research

Bryn Austin worked a team of researchers from Harvard University and the University of Alberta, Canada, to investigate the relationship between size and body…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Unveils IM-RealART for Adaptive Cancer Therapy

With IM-RealART, treatment plans for radiotherapy can be adapted especially fast to changes in the shape and position of tumors. The treatment plan is revised…

Studies and Analyses

Disclosing Financial Conflicts: Key Insights for Research Ethics

The study's recommendations provide a framework for establishing sound policy and practices for how best to disclose financial conflicts of interests to…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Feather Fossil Reveals 40 Million-Year-Old Iridescence

The finding, published online August 26 in Biology Letters, signifies the first evidence of a preserved color-producing nanostructure in a fossilized feather. Iridescence is the quality of changing color depending on the angle of observation, such as the rainbow of colors seen in an oil slick. The simplest iridescent feather colors are produced by light scattering off the feather's surface and a smooth surface of melanin pigment granules within the feather protein. Examining feather fossils from the Messel Shale in Germany with an electron microscope, scientists have documented this smooth layer of melanin structures, called melanosomes….

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