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Health & Medicine

Nutraceuticals: Tasty Microgels Boost Omega-3 Intake

Nutritionists are nearly unanimous in recommending that Americans should eat significantly more omega-3 fatty acids and consume them in foods, not in vitamin…

Life & Chemistry

Naked Mole Rats: Insights into Successful Aging Revealed

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are studying mechanisms that enable the prolonged good health and slowed aging of…

Medical Engineering

Maximizing Efficiency in Diagnostic Reporting with Siemens PACS

The PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and RIS (Radiology Information System) solutions from Siemens Healthcare are enhanced by role-based…

Corporate News

New Online Tool Streamlines Machine Safety Calculations

The Safety Evaluation Tool automatically calculates the quality of safety functions in accordance with the standards EN 62061 (Safety of machinery – Functional…

Corporate News

New Compact Code-Reading Systems for Industrial Use

A primary use of the compact Simatic MV440 code-reading systems, which feature high protection rating IP67, is for reading data matrix codes such as direct…

Corporate News

Compact 17.5mm Time Relay for HVAC Control Cabinets

This makes it suitable for use in heaters, ventilators and air-conditioning units, for example. For these HVAC applications, all the devices comply with the…

Life & Chemistry

How Protein Inactivity Extends Freezer Shelf Life

Frozen biological material, for example food, can be kept for a long time without perishing. A study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden is…

Corporate News

Intrastromal Advances: Femtosecond Lasers in Refractive Surgery

In the ongoing search for better ways to perform refractive surgery, the advent of femtosecond lasers capable of operating within the cornea has led to several…

Social Sciences

Older Adults Excel at Emotion Regulation Over Young Adults

With age comes the ability to better regulate emotions in order to not disrupt performance on a memory-intensive task, according to a study published in the…

Life & Chemistry

Europe’s RNA Research Strategy Unveiled at Granada Conference

The conference, held the institute of Parasitología y Biomedicina “López-Neyra”, CSIC in Granada, Spain, on 23 February 2009, was part of an ESF initiative to…

Studies and Analyses

Dead Sea’s Decline: Water Levels Drop and Risks Rise

The water levels in the Dead Sea – the deepest point on Earth – are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to…

Studies and Analyses

Cellulosic Biofuel Technology: A Path to Low-Cost Green Fuel

The journal believes that the collection, which includes a comparative analysis of more than a dozen mature technology biomass refining scenarios, will make a…

Medical Engineering

Sonohysterography: A New Diagnostic Tool for Adenomyosis

The study included 26 women who underwent sonohysterography and MRI of the pelvis and in whom either modality suggested adenomyosis. Of these 26 women, 23…

Health & Medicine

Obesity’s Impact on Osteoarthritis: Joint Replacement Insights

Total joint replacement is an effective treatment for severe knee and hip OA, and obesity is recognized as being the most important modifiable risk factor for…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum paradox directly observed — a milestone in quantum mechanics

Hardy's Paradox, the axiom that we cannot make inferences about past events that haven't been directly observed while also acknowledging that the very act of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Clean Energy Investment Fails to Meet Climate Goals

The world economic crisis has hit investment in clean energy and means its growth is no longer on track for the world to avert the worst impact of climate…

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