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Automobiles Evolve: From Energy Guzzlers to Power Suppliers

Innovative automobile batteries are getting ready to leave the research labs to become components of modern vehicles. During the worldwide introduction of…

Studies and Analyses

Thanksgiving Travel: Prepare for the Worst Travel Day

A recent University of Alabama study shows the fifth worst day for crashes within the state in 2007 was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. These results are in…

Information Technology

Georgia Tech Launches Manycore Computing Research Center

A collaborative effort between the Georgia Tech Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the Center for Manycore Computing (CMC) will address deep, foundational…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UMass Amherst Spinoff Secures $25M for Ethanol Innovation

Leading the Series B financing is new investor Venrock, along with previous investor Battery Ventures. Also participating in the Series B financing are Soros…

Physics & Astronomy

Innovative Solutions for Managing Space Waste Effectively

There has never been a good system for dealing with space waste – the space shuttle now brings full trash bags back to Earth; on the Russian space station MIR,…

Earth Sciences

Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Signals Asia’s Danger

But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people…

Physics & Astronomy

Black Holes: The Cosmic Rhythm Shaping Galaxies Today

Scientists from the University of Michigan, the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County…

Environmental Conservation

Public Survey Reveals Strong Support for Bison Conservation

These sentiments were found in a public survey released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) at a national conference on restoring bison…

Life & Chemistry

New Penguin Species Discovered in New Zealand

A team from the University of Adelaide, the University of Otago and Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, has identified a previously unknown penguin species while…

Earth Sciences

Global Temperature Report – October 2008

Global trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decadeOctober temperatures (preliminary)Global composite temp.:+0.17 C (about 0.31° Fahrenheit) above 20-year…

Medical Engineering

Streamlined Patient Data Access: Innovations in Hospitals

Collecting, storing and documenting patient data electronically is a growing trend in today’s leading hospitals. Technologies that are essential to business…

Medical Engineering

Seamless Patient Transport with Dräger’s Pick and Go Technology

Both processes are simplified by the Pick and Go technology which is part of Dräger’s Infinity Delta monitor series. Everyone benefits – the patients, the…

Medical Engineering

Gentler Therapies and Diagnostics for Pulmonary Health

If a patient is delivered to the clinic with pulmonary complications, the clinic has to decide which type of therapy is suitable. In addition to purely medical…

Medical Engineering

New ventilation component: Dräger expands the Infinity Acute Care System

This patient supply system aims to improve clinical processes and workflows by offering especially powerful individual components for patient monitoring,…

Medical Engineering

Fast and effective testing for drugs of abuse: the Dräger DrugTest 5000

The Dräger DrugTest 5000 is capable of detecting even minute traces of addictive drugs in saliva within minutes. This means it can provide a quick check on…

Life & Chemistry

International Team Identifies Epilepsy-Linked Gene Discovery

The findings, which involved nearly two dozen institutions from six different countries, appear in the Nov. 7 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.In epilepsy, nerve cells in the brain signal abnormally and cause repeated seizures that can include strange sensations, severe muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. The seizures may not have lasting effects but can affect activities, such as limiting a person's ability to drive. Most seizures do not cause brain damage but some types of epilepsy lead to physical disabilities and cognitive problems. Medications can control symptoms, but there is no cure….

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