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Dual-Source Technology Advances in Computed Tomography

Since its market launch at the end of 2005, this systemhas already been installed over 500 times in leading clinics throughout the world. This proves that…

Corporate News

Siemens Supports Integrated CNC Solutions for Enhanced Productivity

“With our innovative and energy-efficient solutions we aim to help our customers and machine users further improve their productivity, working together with…

Corporate News

Siemens Updates Gas Cleaning System for Ovako’s Blast Furnace

With the new gas scrubber, up to 125,000 Nm3 per hour of blast furnace gas can be cleaned. The modernization project is to be completed in November 2009.Ovako…

Physics & Astronomy

Salt block unexpectedly stretches in Sandia experiments

To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Pittsburgh were…

Environmental Conservation

Dolphins Demand Attention at Whale Summit on Conservation Issues

Small cetaceans: The Forgotten Whales, released today, states that inadequate conservation measures are pushing small cetaceans – such as dolphins, porpoises…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Block Ebola Infection in Cell-Culture Experiments

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered two biochemical pathways that the Ebola virus relies on to infect cells….

Studies and Analyses

New Therapy Shows Promise in Preventing Heart Failure

MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) is a clinical trial that enrolled more than 1,800…

Health & Medicine

Radiation Dose Drastically Reduced During Whole Chest MDCT

Prospective ECG triggering enables the CT scanner to monitor the ECG signal of several heart beats in real time and turns the radiation beam on only during…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Develop New and Efficient Breast Biopsy Technique

Breast biopsy procedures, using both methods, were performed on phantoms during the study. “Our results showed that biopsy success rates were greater when…

Health & Medicine

Migraine Frequency Linked to Higher Stroke Risk in Women

The study found that women with migraine with aura whose migraines occur at least once a week are more than four times as likely to have a stroke as women who…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Superlens Breaks Boundaries in Ultrasound Technology

The team, led by Nicholas X. Fang, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois, successfully focused ultrasound waves through a flat…

Environmental Conservation

'Bycatch' whaling a growing threat to coastal whales

Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, says DNA analysis of whale-meat products sold in Japanese markets…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Method Monitors Refrigerant Levels in Auto Air Conditioners

The new “virtual refrigerant charge sensor” is particularly practical for automotive air conditioners, which tend to leak refrigerant more than other types of…

Environmental Conservation

Waste water treatment plant mud used as 'green' fuel

Dependency on oil and coal could be coming to an end. Researchers from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) have analysed the environmental and human health…

Medical Engineering

Evaluating Acute Hepatic Radiation Injury with 31P MRS

At the present, the gold standard test is liver biopsy. However, this procedure is invasive, uncomfortable for the patients and sometimes results in serious…

Environmental Conservation

European Climate Change Reports Unveiled in Brussels

The reports are published by the Partnership for European Environmental Research (PEER), a grouping of seven of the biggest European environmental research…

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