Dr. Rüdiger Giese from the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and his team receive the “Technology Transfer Award 2008” from the Technology Foundation…
Anyway, in more than half of the games at the World Cup 2006 at least two persons on the field had the same birthday. That is what Yanina Lyesnyak found out…
While Asian firms currently dominate the overall display screen market, Europe is now a leader in the production of flexible electronic displays segment,…
The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III, by the IAU Working…
In a European comparison Austria shows above-average levels of both taxation and social expenditures. The analyses carried out show that the high levels of…
Keeping track of visitors at major sporting events is never easy but at this month’s Euro 2008 championship people in the subways will be counted and the…
Benfotiamine is a synthetic derivative of thiamine (vitamin B1). It is marketed heavily as a dietary supplement using a selection of unsubstantiated,…
On 7th June 2008, Keio University succeeded in the World’s First Demonstration Experiment with the Help of a Disabled Person To Use Brainwave to Chat and…
Prof. Shigeru Watanabe of the Graduate School of Human Relations of Keio University and Tsukuba University graduate student Kohji Toda trained pigeons to…
Boynton leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA, for Phoenix. The instrument has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to…
The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a study in Chile’s Karukinka reserve on Tierra del Fuego to help protect the guanaco – a wild cousin of the…
A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has created a device for use on the European ExoMars rover mission scheduled for launch in…
Greg Smutzer, director of the Laboratory of Gustatory Psychophysics in the Biology Department of Temple’s College of Science and Technology, has created taste…
Climate experts agree that the seriousness of manmade global warming depends greatly upon how clouds in the climate system respond to the small warming…
However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found that eliminating a third sensor — cells expressing a photopigment called…
Today, the guanaco population has dwindled to perhaps half a million animals that live in highly fragmented populations due to habitat loss and competition…
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