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Study shows US seniors 'smarter' than English seniors

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan have carried out the first international comparison…

Health & Medicine

Smoking Over 5 Cigarettes Daily Linked to Increased Migraines

This is indicated in a study which shows that smokers have more migraine attacks and that smoking more than five cigarettes a day triggers this headache. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Compact Mini-Beamer Technology Transforms Mobile Viewing Experience

Today, a choice has to be made whether to stay by the lake or watch the match on a big public screen or the TV set at home. In future, barbecue enthusiasts and…

Life & Chemistry

Advancements in Protein Biochips for Enhanced Testing

These biochips are already in widespread use for DNA testing. When it comes to proteins, such chips are difficult to produce. This is because the proteins have…

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Global Experts Unite at Mantle Cell Lymphoma Workshop

Almost 60 mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) specialists from around the world gathered in Atlanta, GA for the Lymphoma Research Foundation's (LRF) Sixth Annual Mantle…

Physics & Astronomy

Lasers Boost Quantum Bit Memory Capacity by 1,000 Times

These precarious bits, formed in this case by arrays of semiconductor quantum dots containing a single extra electron, are easily perturbed by magnetic field…

Health & Medicine

New Insights Into Colorectal Cancer: Prostasin’s Role Explained

Lotte Vogel, from the University of Copenhagen, worked with a team of Danish and Norwegian researchers to investigate levels of prostasin and its inhibitors in…

Life & Chemistry

Baboons and Humans: Similar Gene Stories in Malaria Fight

In humans, subtle variation in one particular gene that controls whether a protein on the surface of red blood cells gets made or not literally spells the…

Physics & Astronomy

Streaming Sand Grains Reveal Liquid Essence Insights

Physicists seeking to answer this question have, for the first time, measured the nanoscale forces that cause droplet formation in a falling stream of tiny…

Physics & Astronomy

Enceladus: Discovering Salty Ocean Plumes from Saturn’s Moon

An enormous plume of water spurts in giant jets from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus. In a report published in the international science journal…

Life & Chemistry

Diatoms’ Success: Key Players in Ocean Photosynthesis

Diatoms play a key role in the photosynthesis of the oceans and are therefore intensively studied. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and…

Technology Offerings

New Method for Producing Substituted Diamantanes Unveiled

The invention at hand provides novel diamantanes not previously known which have been at least dinitroxylated. During the production of these compounds, at…

Physics & Astronomy

Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean

First observed following a close flyby by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in July 2005, the jets were found to consist of both water vapor and icy particles, said…

Life & Chemistry

Novel Cancer Gene Discovery: Key Biomarker Uncovered

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists' discovery of a cancer-causing gene – the first in its family to be linked to cancer – demonstrates how the panoramic…

Life & Chemistry

New Contraceptive Insight for Sea Lamprey Evolution

In addition to providing fundamental insights into the early evolution of the estrogen receptor, research by a team at the University of California, San Diego…

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Siemens Energy Expands Solar Business with Italian Project

Siemens Energy has received an order from Italy for turnkey construction of a large ground-based photovoltaic plant. Purchaser is the Norwegian utility…

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