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Environmental Conservation

International Development Policies for Climate Change Solutions

“Mainstreaming climate change into international development thinking is not going to urgently help poor people in poor countries” says Professor Brown….

Health & Medicine

Post-menopausal therapy to improve women’s quality of life

The study reveals that the fears associated with the RHT are product of disinformation and are often against clinical evidences. Some of those concerns are…

Life & Chemistry

Rewriting Greenland’s immigration history

Most recently two months ago when he and his team discovered that the ancestors of the North American Indians were the first people to populate America, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Phoenix Mars Lander Activates Robotic Arm for New Discoveries

Phoenix transmitted a 360-degree panorama of its frigid Martian world, freed its nearly 8-foot robotic arm, tested a laser instrument for studying dust and…

Life & Chemistry

Self-Assembled Viruses Transform Gene Therapy Approaches

Viruses are true experts at importing genetic material into the cells of an infected organism. This trait is now being exploited for gene therapy, in which…

Event News

Understanding Sichuan Earthquake Ground Motions: New Insights

The first detailed portrait of the ground motions generated by the earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province on May 12 will be presented today in a…

Machine Engineering

New Automation Products for Water & Wastewater Systems

The library also contains matching project documents – ranging from specifications to test procedures. Also new is the free “Consultant DVD” with an efficient…

Machine Engineering

Innovative All-in-One Vortex Flowmeter for Fluids and Gases

By combining these in one unit, the vortex principle is used to measure the temperature, pressure and flow of steam, gases and liquids. The new „All-in-one…

Materials Sciences

New Iron-Based Superconductors: High-Temperature Breakthrough

In the initial studies of a new class of high-temperature superconductors discovered earlier this year, research at the Commerce Department’s National…

Health & Medicine

Monkey Feeds Itself Using Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm

A monkey has successfully fed itself with fluid, well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from…

Life & Chemistry

Genomic Analysis Reveals New Insights in Cellular Reprogramming

The ability to drive somatic, or fully differentiated, human cells back to a pluripotent or “stem cell” state would overcome many of the significant scientific…

Physics & Astronomy

UT Knoxville Uncovers Insights on New High-Temperature Superconductors

The excitement centers around a new class of high-temperature superconductors — initially discovered in February and March by Japanese and Chinese researchers…

Earth Sciences

Methane Release: A Historical Threat to Climate Stability

An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a…

Life & Chemistry

'Barren' seafloor teeming with microbial life

Once considered a barren plain with the odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper being published May…

Life & Chemistry

UH Mânoa researcher finds Laysan albatross employs 'dual mommies'

On the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, 31% of nests are female-female pairs. Female pairs raise fewer chicks than male-female pairs, but given the shortage of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Superlattice Structure Boosts Infrared Imaging Performance

Researchers at center, led by Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, say that such technology has the…

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