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Transportation and Logistics

A First in Spain: Optiguide for Castellon’s Trolleybus Line

Siemens’ Optiguide optical guidance system allows the vehicle to very accurately follow the ideal route painted on the road and to dock as close to station…

Information Technology

When a suitcase says where it's flying to: Digital networking of everyday objects

No queueing at the check-out, no hectic digging for your purse, no repacking of items from the trolley into the bags you have brought with you. How much your…

Earth Sciences

Establishing an Independent Earth Systems Science Agency

In an article published today in the journal Science, a group of former senior federal officials call for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems…

Health & Medicine

Nanostructures Enhance Bone Response to Titanium Implants

There are some alternatives to modulating the body's response after implant placement. Modifying the implant surface topography has been a successful path…

Studies and Analyses

USC Researchers Uncover Key Tumor Suppressor for Cell Recycling

The study will be published in the July issue of the journal Nature Cell Biology, and is now available online.”Our studies indicate that UVRAG tumor suppressor…

Earth Sciences

New Pathway for Methane Production Discovered in Oceans

The article, released in the prestigious journal Nature Geoscience, reveals that aerobic decomposition of an organic, phosphorus-containing compound,…

Physics & Astronomy

First Measurements of Solar Wind Termination Shock Unveiled

At the termination shock the solar wind, which continuously expands outward from the sun at over a million miles per hour, is abruptly slowed to a subsonic…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Salt Tolerant Grasses Enhance Roadside Plantings

The associate professor of turf science wasn't surprised. That's because the pots had been sitting in increasingly saltier water for five months, and few…

Life & Chemistry

The body's own 'cannabis (marijuana)' is good for the skin

Scientists from Hungary, Germany and the U.K. have discovered that our own body not only makes chemical compounds similar to the active ingredient in marijuana…

Earth Sciences

New Evidence Bolsters Exploding Asteroid Theory in Ohio, Indiana

Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America — when…

Studies and Analyses

Smart Eating: Boost Your Intelligence with Nutrition Insights

New research findings published online in The FASEB Journal provide more evidence that if we get smart about what we eat, our intelligence can improve….

Physics & Astronomy

New Research Reveals Surprising Matter Interactions at Stanford

Such may be the case with the results of new experimental research on collisions between a single hydrogen atom and a lone molecule of deuterium—the smallest…

Life & Chemistry

FSU Researcher Uses Computers to Enhance Cancer Strategies

Kevin C. Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, is…

Environmental Conservation

Bengal Tigers Face Decline in Himalayan Wildlife Reserve

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal,…

Life & Chemistry

New Tool Enhances Bacterial Genome Analysis for Researchers

The tool, which allows scientists to analyze many bacterial genomes at once, is more accurate than previous methods because it starts from experimentally…

Earth Sciences

Alfred Wegener Institute Acquires World Radiation Data Archive

The international archive for radiation data, the World Radiation Monitoring Center (WRMC), provides climate research with high-precision meteorological series…

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