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Environmental Conservation

Portuguese São Domingos mine generates acidic water following 43 years of inactivity

The Portuguese São Domingos mine is located in the Iberian Pyrite Belt along with other mines located on the Spanish side, such as Río Tinto or Almagrera,…

Physics & Astronomy

Carbon Nanotube Avalanche Boosts Current Flow Efficiency

The researchers drove semiconducting carbon nanotubes into an avalanche process that carries more electrons down more paths, similar to the way a multilane…

Information Technology

Cell Phones Transform Classroom Learning Experience

Their Mobile Learning Environment includes programs that let students map concepts, animate their drawings, surf relevant parts of the Internet and integrate…

Life & Chemistry

High CO2 Levels Increase Plant Respiration Impacting Crops

The study, from researchers at the University of Illinois and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Health & Medicine

Tests May Predict Driving Safety in People with Alzheimer’s Disease

“The number of people with dementia is increasing as our population ages, and we will face a growing public health problem of elderly drivers with memory…

Medical Engineering

Siemens Launches Integrated IT Solution for Cardiology

The Peine Clinic in Lower Saxony is the first hospital in Germany to interface its angiography systems with an image management and reporting system. All data…

Event News

TMS 2009 Annual Meeting & Exhibition Features Leaders from the Aluminum Industry

An outstanding panel of speakers has been organized to review the current economic situation with a comparison to the past and recessions in the metals…

Life & Chemistry

Cyber Chemistry Project Accelerates Drug Production Process

Drug-makers could one day make products faster because of a $2.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project now underway at the University of…

Life & Chemistry

Long-Sought Protein Structure May Show How ‘Gene Switch’ Works

In a Journal of Biological Chemistry paper* posted online this week, the NIST/BNL team reports that it has defined—for the first time—the structure of a…

Life & Chemistry

Mama Whales Guide Babies in Finding Food Amid Global Change

“A primary concern is, what are whales going to do with global warming, which may change the location and abundance of their prey?” asks Vicky Rowntree,…

Environmental Conservation

California Wildfires: Toxic Particulate Matter Uncovered

The study adds to growing literature supporting source and component specific differences in toxicity of pollutant particles of a given size, and challenges…

Process Engineering

New Coal Dewatering Tech Transforms Sludge Into Powder

Because there has been no economically viable technology to remove water from ultrafine coal slurries, the ultrafine particles that are the residue of the coal…

Life & Chemistry

Bivalve Census Uncovers Insights from Ancient Extinction

“The evolutionary legacy of the end-Cretaceous extinction is very much with us. In fact, it can be seen in virtually every marine community, every lagoon,…

Earth Sciences

Zen Discovery: Unrusted Iron’s Impact on Ocean Life

Iron dust, the gold of the oceans and rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by rivers or blown out to sea or – a surprising new study finds…

Environmental Conservation

Host Shift Sparks Ecosystem Change: Wasp and Apple Maggot Dynamics

Forbes and his colleagues found that a parasitic wasp (Diachasma alloeum) that attacks the apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella) has “formed new incipient…

Studies and Analyses

Energy Drinks: A New Study Aid for Students?

It's not uncommon for students to consume energy drinks to increase their concentration as they study throughout the night. “Energy drinks are the coffee of a…

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