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Information Technology

How Intelligent Programs Enhance Computer Security

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are security tools designed to monitor computer systems for suspicious events. To reduce the risk of intrusion, which is one…

Information Technology

W3C Standard Eases Development of Speech-Enabled Apps

W3C published yesterday– 14 October 2008 — a standard that will simplify the development of Web applications that speak and listen to users. The…

Machine Engineering

Siemens VAI Unveils Smart Shear for Enhanced Cutting Quality

Due to the rising demand for high-strength types of steel and for plates with a greater thickness and width, the requirements placed on plate mill shears have…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Heart Repair Techniques from Berlin and Australia

Dr. Jörg-Detlef Drenckhahn of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany and colleagues from Australia were able to demonstrate…

Earth Sciences

Challenge to discover Antarctica’s hidden world

The mission of this International Polar Year (IPY) project is to uncover secrets of the enigmatic Gamburtsev subglacial mountains that are buried by up to 4 km…

Interdisciplinary Research

New Compound Stabilizes Key Tumor Suppressor Protein

Giralt, head of the Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology programme and senior professor at the University of Barcelona, explains that, “tentatively, this could…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU and Industry Unite to Advance Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

On 14th October, the European Union and European Industry announce plans to make fuel cells and hydrogen one of Europe's leading new strategic energy…

Life & Chemistry

$2 Egg-Beater: A Game Changer for Blood Plasma Separation

The low-cost centrifuge replacement can separate plasma from blood in minutes, which is used in tests to detect lethal infectious diseases responsible for half…

Information Technology

Grid Computing: Reviving Collaboration for Modern Business

Grid computing, desktop networks that share computer resources, were a big deal in the 1990s when they first started to appear. They allowed the Search for…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic and Environmental Factors in Disability Retirement Explained

No previous studies on the effect of genetic factors on the liability to disability retirement have been carried out. In the new research published today in…

Life & Chemistry

Earliest Human TB Discovered in 9,000-Year-Old Skeletons

The new research, led by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Tel-Aviv University and published today in PLoS One, sheds light on how the TB…

Environmental Conservation

The Philippines’ Response to Climate Change

Climate change is the current crisis the world is experiencing today. It is an international issue that concerns all fields of research and expertise including…

Materials Sciences

Georgia Tech Launches Center for Next-Gen Semiconductor Materials

The Laboratory will focus its efforts on the development of new materials to serve as the successors to silicon in the semiconductor industry. Specifically,…

Life & Chemistry

Modern Genetics Battles Ancient Fungus to Save Amphibians

Its name is Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). It is a “chytrid” fungus that lives on keratin, a type of protein found in the skin of amphibians, and is…

Life & Chemistry

Florida’s “Worm Grunters” Collect Bait Worms by Inadvertently Imitating Mole Sounds

When biologist Ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practiced in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle one of his…

Life & Chemistry

Oldest Flying Insect Fossil Discovered by Tufts Researchers

While paleontologists may scour remote, exotic places in search of prehistoric specimens, Tufts researchers have found what they believe to be the world's…

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