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Studies and Analyses

Impact of Economic Crisis on Families and Work Insights

In “The Hits Just Keep Coming: How the Recession is Affecting Families and Work,” Hochwarter sought to find out how the financial crisis is affecting people…

Innovative Products

Student-Invented Device Offers Smart Calorie Tracking Solution

Counting calories that burn through activity is a constant quandary. One can only run on a treadmill so long, watching intently as the pedometer reads out the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Long Platinum Nanowires Pave Way for Better Fuel Cells

The creation of long platinum nanowires at the University of Rochester could soon lead to the development of commercially viable fuel cells.Described in a…

Environmental Conservation

Right Whale Sedation Aids Successful Disentanglement Efforts

On Friday, March 6, 2009, for the first time ever, a North Atlantic right whale that had been severely entangled in fishing gear, was administered a sedation…

Life & Chemistry

Polarizers Boost Remote Chemical Detection in Harsh Environments

The tool is also commonly used for “stand-off” detection in such harsh or potentially dangerous environments as blast furnaces, nuclear reactors and biohazard…

Health & Medicine

Nerve Cell Experiment Breaks Records Soaring 31+ Kilometers

“We are excited to report the mission was a success!” said Dr. Lynx McClellan, a clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing. “The payload made it…

Physics & Astronomy

New Hubble Findings Reveal Dark Matter in Small Galaxies

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that galaxies are embedded in halos of dark matter.Peering into the tumultuous heart…

Corporate News

DASGIP Enhances Parallel Bioreactor Control with Automation

The DASGIP Control 4.0 OPC Edition allows a full integration of external laboratory devices into the DASGIP Parallel Bioreactor Control System. The added OPC…

Health & Medicine

Can mental training games help prevent Alzheimer's?

Loss of thinking power is a fear shared by many aging baby boomers. That fear has resulted in a budding industry for brain training products – exercises such…

Health & Medicine

Breath and Urine Sensors Could Detect Cancer and Diabetes

A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A…

Health & Medicine

New Insights on Malaria Parasite and Red Blood Cell Interaction

Malaria is transmitted to humans through bites from mosquitoes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 350 million and 500…

Studies and Analyses

University Study Reveals New Insights on Consumer Emotions

In a series of four studies, Ebert and co-authors Daniel Gilbert (Harvard) and Timothy Wilson (University of Virginia) use methods of prediction called…

Corporate News

PCS7 Communication Blocks Enhance IEC-61850 Device Integration

The plant operator thus has an integral automation and control solution that can also be used in heterogeneous system landscapes. This facilitates the gradual…

Materials Sciences

Carbon Nanotubes Enhance Performance in Electric Switches

New research from Rice University and the University of Oulu in Oulu, Finland, finds that carbon nanotubes could significantly improve the performance of…

Earth Sciences

Agulhas Current: Impact on European Climate Revealed

Her PhD thesis “Surface and Deep Circulation off South Africa: Agulhas Leakage Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Last 345 kyr”…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble and ESO’s VLT provide unique 3D views of remote galaxies

By looking at this unique “history book” of our Universe, at an epoch when the Sun and the Earth did not yet exist, scientists hope to solve the puzzle of how…

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