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Materials Sciences

Advanced Materials Transforming Future Gas Turbines

applications for power stations and airplanes have to meet increasingly high demands on system efficiency. The materials used must be absolutely safe and…

Health & Medicine

Premature Birth Linked to Increased Behavioral Disorders

A team led by the University’s Department of Psychology and Warwick Medical School examined the behaviour of 200 six-year-old children who had been born below…

Earth Sciences

New Research Questions Oxygen Theory of Mass Extinction

The Permian-Triassic catastrophe (250 million years ago) was the worst of all five of the mass extinction events to ever have befallen the earth. It eradicated…

Physics & Astronomy

Steins: A Unique Celestial Discovery from OSIRIS Team

“Steins looks like a diamond in the sky,” said Uwe Keller, Principal Investigator for the OSIRIS imaging system from the Max Planck Institut Fuer…

Earth Sciences

Aerosols and Climate Change: New Insights from Recent Study

The increase in atmospheric concentrations of man-made aerosols—tiny particles suspended in the air—from such sources as transportation, industry, agriculture,…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Innovations Near One of the World’s Largest Lakes

We are just beyond the ice margin from the maximum of the last Ice Age, where it has been mapped 100 kilometres north of the town of Kotlas in north-western…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Compost Bacteria Could Meet 10% of UK Transport Fuel Needs

Researchers from Guildford, UK, have successfully developed a new strain of bacteria that can break down straw and agricultural plant waste, domestic hedge…

Health & Medicine

New Study Links Gum Disease to Heart Disease Risk

Now, researchers have discovered a new link between gum disease and heart disease that may help find ways to save lives, scientists heard today (Tuesday 9…

Life & Chemistry

Catching The Blood Cell Bus: Yeast Infection Insights

Cells of the Cryptococcus yeast responsible for one of the three most life-threatening infections that commonly attack HIV infected patients, causing…

Life & Chemistry

Neanderthal Childbirth Challenges Revealed in New Study

These new insights into the history of human evolution are being presented this week in the journal «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS» by…

Life & Chemistry

EPO Drug Boosts Memory in Chronic Kidney Failure Patients

Patients given EPO to treat chronic kidney failure had been observed to have improved cognition after starting the drug. “These effects of EPO were thought to…

Trade Fair News

Enhancing JobShop Efficiency with CNC-Linked Automation

The presentation is focusing on the link between auxiliary robots and the CNC. The Sinumerik 840D controls robots through open interfaces. This enables…

Machine Engineering

Magnet-Free Synchronous Linear Motor: A New Innovation

The innovative motor concept has all the advantages of direct drives such as high force density, high dynamic response, good control features and outstanding…

Information Technology

Future Nanoelectronics: Key Challenges Revealed by Researchers

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and the University of Maryland in the U.S. are now showing that there is a limit. When the size of the components…

Medical Engineering

3T MRI Enhances Diagnosis of Focal Epilepsy

“Patients with focal epilepsy have recurrent seizures that result from a specific area of their brain, usually due to a structural brain abnormality,” said…

Information Technology

Wireless Tech Innovations: Virginia Tech’s Journey Since 1971

Beginning with their first NASA-funded project in 1971 and continuing through the 1990s, ECE Professors Charles Bostian and Warren Stutzman led Virginia Tech's…

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