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Physics & Astronomy

Harnessing Disorder: New Magnetic Sensors from Indium Antimonide

The key to fabricating the sensors involves slightly diluting samples of a well-known semiconductor material, called indium antimonide, which is valued for its…

Environmental Conservation

Photos Reveal Myanmar's Large and Small Predators

Using camera traps survey techniques, researchers from WCS’s Myanmar Program have combed the 3,250-square-kilometer core area (approx. 1,250 square miles) of…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring Links Between Space and Mind: New Research Insights

“Common underlying search mechanisms may exist that drive our behavior in many different domains,” said IU cognitive scientist Peter Todd. “If how people…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Clean Technologies: Key Innovations from Japan’s Top Universities

The three universities from Japan were Tokyo University of Science, Tokai University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Summaries of the technologies presented…

Earth Sciences

University of Miami Scientist Reveals Key Geological Miscalculation

The precise timing of the origin of life on Earth and the changes in life during the past 4.5 billion years has been a subject of great controversy for the…

Physics & Astronomy

Next Mars Soil Scoop Slated for Last of Lander's Wet Lab Cells

The chosen source for that sample is from the “Snow White” trench on the eastern end of the work area reachable with Phoenix's robotic arm. In July that trench…

Studies and Analyses

Study Explores Early Puberty in Girls With Absent Fathers

Professor Bruce J. Ellis, the John and Doris Norton Endowed Chair in Fathers, Parenting and Families at the UA Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences,…

Life & Chemistry

New Advances in Heart Research from Singapore’s Top Institutes

Scientists from the Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), under Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Bacteria Prevent Sheep Dip Poisoning Fish and Bees

Most modern sheep dips are based on natural insecticides found in chrysanthemum flowers that have been manufactured synthetically since the 1970s called…

Medical Engineering

PTB Combines Magnetic Resonance and Radar in New Prototype

Don't move a muscle! Patients certainly have to take this request to heart if they have to lie in a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) device – otherwise…

Life & Chemistry

Remote Brainwaves: Unlocking the Science Behind Eureka Moments

Despite its widespread reports, the brain mechanism underlying eureka is poorly understood. What happens in the brain during that particular moment? Is that…

Health & Medicine

Treatment for Parkinson’s examined

It involved a study of the most efficacious surgical operations undertaken and pharmaceutical drugs used to treat these disorders as well genetic studies…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Kent astronomers tune in to ‘Radio Universe’

These include: what is the universe made of and how does it evolve? Are we alone in the universe? How do galaxies, stars and planets form and evolve? What are…

Studies and Analyses

Tsunami Survivors’ Stories: Insights from New Study

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stord/Haugesund University College in Norway are now presenting a study based on deep interviews with victims of the…

Studies and Analyses

High Social Capital at Work Aids Smoking Cessation Efforts

A research project within the Academy of Finland’s Research Programme on Social Capital and Networks of Trust (SoCa) examined smoking cessation among a total…

Studies and Analyses

Leisure Activities Shape Youth Identity and Social Capital

New research suggests that the formation of youth identity and social capital is greatly affected by how children and youth spend their leisure time. Spare…

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