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Health & Medicine

Disinfectants May Boost Bacterial Resistance to Treatment

Low levels of these chemicals, called biocides, can make the potentially lethal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus remove toxic chemicals from the cell even more…

Studies and Analyses

New Studies Uncover Health Risks of Plastic Chemicals

Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A…

Earth Sciences

GOCE Team Prepares for New Launch Date After Anomaly

On 7 September, preparatory activities for the launch of GOCE from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia were stopped by Eurockot due to an anomaly…

Power and Electrical Engineering

SABRE Project: Advancing Reliable Electronic Systems

The project is called SABRE (Self-healing cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired highly Reliable Electronic systems). The part of the project to be…

Physics & Astronomy

Sharpest Jupiter Image Yet: Two-Hour Atmospheric Observation

A record two-hour observation of Jupiter using a superior technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from…

Information Technology

Catching smugglers with ‘guilt’ technology

Dr Hassan Ugail, Head of Visual Computing Research at the University of Bradford’s School of Informatics, is part of a team working on a £500,000 project to…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Molecule That Guides Cell Movement

Even cells commute. To get from their birthplace to their work site, they sequentially attach to and detach from an elaborate track of exceptionally strong…

Process Engineering

Efficient Aluminium Component Manufacturing for Industries

Aluminium alloys are largely used in all kind of industries, e.g. in the car industry, mechanical engineering and aerospace industry. For some applications the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Students and Researchers Build Small CubeSat Satellites

Undergraduate and graduate students will be heavily involved in this Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX) project, led by the University of Michigan and SRI…

Event News

International Earth Scientists Gather in Houston for Innovation

Not only are more than 8,000 international earth scientists coming to Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, beginning this weekend, to participate in…

Event News

AVS 55: Highlights of Jumbo Microscopes and Nanotubes

The AVS 55th International Symposium next month in Boston will showcase research from across the spectrum of science and engineering devoted to research on…

Event News

Houston Hosts Earth Celebration: Join the Innovation Event

The celebration begins 5-9 October at the George R. Brown Convention Center at a joint meeting of the Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of…

Environmental Conservation

Sea Turtles FeeBee and Milton to Get Satellite Tracking

To celebrate their release into the wild, a “Goodbye” party will take place on Sunday, October 5, from 1-4 p.m. at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center located at…

Information Technology

Computer Hardware 'Guardians' Protect Users from Undiscovered Bugs

Firms such as Intel find functional bugs by simulating different scenarios, commands and configurations that their processor might encounter. Bugs only show…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Research on Plant Viruses Aims to Boost Crop Yields

The cost of worldwide crop losses due to plant diseases is estimated at $60 billion annually. Although there are no good estimates of the cost of plant viruses…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Paleontologist Inspires Drone Design from Prehistoric Reptile

The drone, featuring a strange design of a rudder at the nose of the craft instead of the tail, would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban…

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