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New System Links Urban Features to Hyperlinks in Real Time

European researchers working in the MOBVIS project have successfully developed a system that can attach hyperlinks to real-world urban features. Users simply…

Information Technology

Hyperlinked Reality: Navigate the Unknown City Adventure

You wake up in a strange city with no recollection of how you got there and no information about where you are. Demonstrating nerves of steel, you calmly pick…

Environmental Conservation

Water and Forest Interaction: A Call for Better Policies

In addition, institutional mechanisms to enhance synergies in forests and water administrations are needed at national and regional levels.These key messages…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Dolphin Language Using CymaScope Innovations

The key to this technique is the CymaScope, a new instrument that reveals detailed structures within sounds, allowing their architecture to be studied…

Information Technology

Internet Security Flaw Exposed: Phishing Risks Revealed

As a result of this weakness it is possible to impersonate secure websites and email servers and to perform virtually undetectable phishing attacks, implying…

Environmental Conservation

Manufacturers Embrace Environmental Initiatives to Cut Costs

In addition to winning over regulators and other key constituents, some green manufacturers are even cutting costs through their environmental initiatives,…

Life & Chemistry

Engineered Pancreatic Cell Transplants Bypass Immune Response

At present, cell transplantation therapy is limited because transplant recipients are forced to take powerful immunosuppressant medications that have toxic…

Life & Chemistry

Calcium Boosts Plants’ Defense by Triggering Aspirin Production

Experiments show that calcium, when bound to a protein called calmodulin, prompts plants to make salicylic acid (SA) when threatened by infection or other…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Nanodiamonds Found in North American Soil Sites

These nanodiamonds, which are produced under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions created by cosmic impacts and have been found in meteorites, are…

Environmental Conservation

Coral Reefs Recovering Four Years Post-Tsunami Event

The WCS team, working in conjunction with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARCCoERS) along with government,…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Telescope’s Final Tune-Up Marks Astronomy Year

From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of…

Information Technology

Enhancing Digital Maps for Accuracy and Current Data

The ‘oddly enough’ sections of newspapers regularly feature amusing stories of GPS mayhem. For instance, one lorry driver in Poland had such confidence in his…

Information Technology

Unlocking the Dynamic Web: Insights from OpenKnowledge Project

Change is coming to the IT world, says Dave Robertson, coordinator of the EU-funded OpenKnowledge research project.Just as individuals are now storing, editing…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Data Secrets: Insights Into Infectious Disease Spread

This applies to infectious disease transmission, main topic of a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which called for…

Earth Sciences

Spain’s biggest meteorite strike remembered 150 years on

This comes from a report commissioned by Rafael Martínez Fortún, from the town of Molina de Segura in Murcia, whose farm was struck by the largest meteorite…

Life & Chemistry

Cambridge Researchers Uncover New Pathway in Resistant Cancers

Their discovery, reported in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, centres on the significance of DNA damage for both normal cells and…

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