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Genetic Breakthrough: Enhancing Flower Scents with Science

A team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has found a way to genetically enhance the scent of flowers and implant a scent in those that don't…

Information Technology

CERN OpenLab Enhances LHC Computing Performance Efficiently

At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator, is expected to produce more than 15 million Gigabytes of data each…

Business and Finance

Boost Ergonomic Efficiency: Insights from Turkish Air Force Experts

Oguzhan Erdinc of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Turkish Air Force Academy and Ozalp Vayvay of the Department of Industrial Engineering, at…

Life & Chemistry

Marine Virus Revealed as Paper of the Week in Innovation

The Journal of Biological Chemistry has ranked this documentation as “Paper of the Week.”A virus that infects the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus can…

Business and Finance

Research finds customers’ fixation on minimum payments drives up credit card bills

The research, by University of Warwick Psychology researcher Dr Neil Stewart, is to be published in Psychological Science, in a paper entitled “The Cost of…

Studies and Analyses

Soothing Music Alleviates Stress and Anxiety in Pregnant Women

Researchers from the College of Nursing at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, randomly assigned 116 pregnant women to a music group and 120 to a control…

Information Technology

Empowering Disabled Travelers with Accessible Transport Info

By letting disabled people know in advance which bus routes, subway lines or rail links are disabled friendly, people with disabilities can plan journeys that…

Health & Medicine

The skeleton of the European Virtual Human is “made in Italy”

The selection was severe: of 300 proposals the EC received only 15 were funded; of them, the only one dealing with on musculoskeletal apparatus was submitted…

Materials Sciences

Space Tech Aids in Achieving Long-Jump World Record

In spring 2004, ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) technology broker MST Aerospace met with Wojtek Czyz and his trainer to perform a pre-screening of…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up Begins: Key Climate Insights

This year marked the first time since satellite measurements began in the 1970s that the Northern Sea Route, also known as the Northeast Passage, and the…

Information Technology

Machines With Mental Muscle: A New Era in Computer Vision

Computers do not see things the way we do. Sure, they can manipulate recorded images, for example, but they currently understand very little about what is…

Information Technology

Peer-to-Peer Networking: Redefining Connectivity Without Internet

The power and reach of the internet in today’s world is such that people have, in a short space of time, become over-reliant on it for many tasks both in…

Physics & Astronomy

Spanish Scientists Create Wind Measurement Chip for Mars

The MSL rover, a robotised vehicle, will determine whether Mars is or has been able to support any kind of life. Among the instruments it contains are the…

Awards Funding

Shrewsbury School Wins Top UK Space Competition

Shrewsbury School, in Shropshire, beat five other groups from around the UK in the final stage of the competition which was announced at an awards ceremony at…

Earth Sciences

New Sahara Aerosols Discovery Enhances Climate Change Research

Researchers José Luis Díaz Hernández, of the Andalusian Research and Farming, Fishing, Food, and Ecological Production Training Institute and Jesús Párraga…

Life & Chemistry

Drug Design Models: Are They Still Useful? Insights Revealed

It may very well be that models used for the design of new drugs have to be regarded as impractical. This is the sobering though important conclusion of the…

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