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Life & Chemistry

Innovative Advances in Biological Fuel Cells Explained

Biological fuel cells use enzymes or whole microorganisms as biocatalysts for the direct conversion of chemical energy to electrical energy. One type of…

Medical Engineering

First Portable System Measures Hearing Damage in Cetaceans

Researchers from Spain, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and the United States were involved in the project, which was conducted thanks to the…

Studies and Analyses

Gender Differences in Doctoral Thesis Production: A Study Review

“The study looked at a sample of more than 1,000 doctoral theses extracted from the TESEO data base and completed over a 15-year period between 1990 and 2004”,…

Life & Chemistry

How chromosomes meet in the dark – Switch that turns on X chromosome matchmaking

Their discovery could also provide new insights into how other similar chromosomes spontaneously recognize each other and are bound together at key parts of…

Environmental Conservation

Protea plants help unlock secrets of species 'hotspots'

Proteas are best known as the national symbol of South Africa. The international team behind today's new study created an evolutionary 'family tree' of all…

Earth Sciences

Temperature Response Delayed in Altai Ice Core Study

An ice core drilled at the Belukha glacier in the Siberian Altai by a Swiss-Russian research team under the leadership of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in…

Business and Finance

Global Project Finance Reform: Insights from Recent Study

Recent research by the Economic and Social Research Council finds that Project Finance (PF), one of the most commonly used methods of funding major…

Materials Sciences

New Technique Enhances Reliability in Semiconductor Manufacturing

The new technique could help improve the reliability and manufacturability of ICs and, better yet, it’s one that state-of-the-art microelectronics…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electromagnetic Phantom Enhances Metal Detector Testing

In the comics, the Phantom is a masked crimefighter who protected the innocent from pirates, hijackers and other evildoers. While not as dashing or exciting as…

Life & Chemistry

First Embryonic Stem Cells Derived From Rats: Key Breakthrough

The research will be published in the Dec. 26 issue of the journal Cell. “This is a major development in stem cell research because we know that rats are much…

Life & Chemistry

First Images Unveiled From Canadian Light Source Beamline

“Our entire team was just thrilled with what we saw – the images we’re getting on BMIT are as good as any I’ve gotten at any other synchrotron. That’s quite an…

Life & Chemistry

New Assembly Process Creates Complex SWNT Architectures

Using a new assembly process, a team of researchers at Northeastern University’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for…

Materials Sciences

New Rapid Assembly Process Enhances Nanoscale Fabrication

The rapidly advancing field of nanotechnology demands simple and quick fabrication processes in the nanoscale. With more lightweight flexible plastic solar…

Life & Chemistry

Deep-Sea Microbes: Insights Into Alien Life Possibilities

Hovering in a tiny submarine 1.4 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist felt as if he were in a time machine,…

Life & Chemistry

High-Fat Diet Disrupts Biological Clock and Metabolism

The biological clock regulates the expression and/or activity of enzymes and hormones involved in metabolism, and disturbance of the clock can lead to such…

Health & Medicine

Sleep Disorder May Be Early Sign of Dementia or Parkinson’s Disease

The sleep disorder is called REM sleep behavior disorder. People with the disorder do not have the normal lack of muscle tone that occurs during REM sleep,…

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