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Materials Sciences

Multiferroics — making a switch the electric way

They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices provided a simple and fast way can be found to turn their electric and…

Medical Engineering

Breast MRI Detects Additional “Unsuspected” Cancers Not Seen on Mammography or Ultrasound

A total of 199 patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer underwent breast MRI. “We found additional, unsuspected cancers in the ipsilateral breast (the one…

Social Sciences

Social recognition increases employees' support for companies

This is revealed in a thesis in sociology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Social recognition – that one is recognised as an individual and that one's…

Health & Medicine

Salmonella’s Self-Sacrifice: Surviving in Our Intestines

Our large intestines are heavily populated by bacteria and as such really do not have space for newcomers. Despite this, Salmonella are able to multiply there….

Corporate News

New Transformerless Solar Inverters Hit 98% Efficiency

This performance enables the plant operator to make a higher profit during infeed into the medium-voltage system. In addition, system costs can also be reduced…

Corporate News

Airtricity Selects Siemens Turbines for Butendiek Offshore Farm

Airtricity, the renewable energy division of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), signed an agreement with Siemens Energy for the delivery of 80 SWT-3.6-107…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy

Pregnant women with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from bacterial vaginosis (BV) – a common vaginal infection that increases a woman's…

Life & Chemistry

Cell Fate: The Role of Signaling Molecules in Development

It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the renowned…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Capture Star Acceleration Breakthrough in Science

The work, which is published online in Science Express on 21 May, was undertaken by an international team led by PhD student Anne Archibald and her supervisor,…

Health & Medicine

Younger Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Face Shorter Survival

That is the conclusion of a new study published in the July 1, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The paradoxical…

Health & Medicine

Cholesterol Drugs May Cut Stroke Recurrence Risk

Those who take statins after a stroke may also be less likely to die within the next 10 years than those who do not take statins. “Considering the large burden…

Studies and Analyses

Menopause Transition Linked to Learning Difficulties in Women

For a four-year period, researchers studied 2,362 women, who were between the ages of 42 and 52 had at least one menstrual period in the three months before…

Studies and Analyses

A person's high or low response to alcohol says much about their risk for alcoholism

A study that examined the influence of LR in conjunction with other characteristics – like family history of AUDs and age of drinking onset – has found that LR…

Medical Engineering

Automated analysis of MR images may identify early Alzheimer’s disease

In their report that will appear in the journal Brain and has been released online, the MGH/Martinos team show how their software program can accurately…

Life & Chemistry

New Stem Cell Research Opens Doors for Parkinson’s Therapies

As an example, a first-in-human study was just initiated for Parkinson's disease patients with the drug product, sNN0031, from the Swedish company NeuroNova….

Physics & Astronomy

K-State's fast laser research and theory building on Einsten's work by timing electrons emissions

Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his theoretical explanation in 1905 of the so-called photo-effect — that is, the emission of electrons from a…

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