In our brains, groups of neurons fire up simultaneously for just milliseconds at a time, in random rhythms, similar to twinkling lightning bugs in our…
Ubiquitous on Earth, water also has been found in comets, on Mars and in molecular clouds in interstellar space. Now, scientists say this common fluid is not…
As reported in the Aug. 7 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have developed a high-performance,…
A total of four tractive effort tests were performed with the multi-system locomotive. Although coupled to 36 freight cars and weighing a total of 2,011 metric…
Just a week before the start of the 2008 Olympics, the Velaro officially entered passenger service in China. The Chinese Railway Minister Liu Zhi Jun and the…
Conventional electrical sensors push their limits whenever they are operated in damp or electromagnetically aggressive environments. Moreover, their use in…
Fe-NHC-Kat stands for a completely new class of catalyst.
These iron catalysts are much more beneficial than conventional noble metal or nickel catalysts….
You don't need a wine expert to identify a '74 Pinot Noir from Burgundy – a handheld “electronic tongue” devised by European scientists will tell you the grape…
The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target…
The underlying mechanism for these remarkable phenomena has been fascinating to scientists for decades; especially the origin of the recently discovered…
Shark researchers from the University of New South Wales, Newcastle University, NSW Department of Primary Industries Fisheries (Australia) and University of…
With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine…
Did you know that Norwegian trees require only a few minutes to replace the timber used to produce the first edition of Aftenposten? That’s equivalent to the…
Quantum computing has the potential to fix problems that would normally take millions of years to solve, much faster than ordinary computers. For these quantum…
Until now, scientists assumed that these two poles develop in all epithelial cells in the same manner – irrespective of whether they are located in the heart,…
The study could help in the development of new treatments for serious heart conditions such as infective endocarditis. The researchers studied the way a…
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