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Environmental Conservation

Kew’s New Sensor Device Transforms Agricultural Practices

Developed by engineers at the University of Leeds, the sensor device gathers data on air temperature, humidity, air pressure, light, and soil moisture and…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetic Nanoparticles: A New Approach to Cancer Therapy?

Magnetic nanoparticles (with a size of some few to several hundred nanometres) are a new, promising means of fighting cancer. The particles serve as a carrier…

Physics & Astronomy

High-Tech Materials Boost Precision in Manufacturing

Thermally stable materials play an important role in dimensional metrology and in precision manufacturing. The currently highest requirements on the thermal…

Physics & Astronomy

Accurate Spectral Emissivity for Reliable Radiation Thermometry

In order to attain exact and reliable results, the emissivity of the measured surface has to be known. It can only be determined precisely in complex measuring…

Environmental Conservation

New Policy Framework Aims to Protect European Forests

Demands on forests will become stronger and spatially more diversified. Production of wood and other traditional forest resources will have to be balanced…

Transportation and Logistics

How Truck Noise Can Inform Drivers About Their Journey

Experienced truck drivers prefer sound that provides them with information about how the journey is proceeding and they do not view information-bearing sound…

Physics & Astronomy

Laser Light Creates Complex Nanostructures: New Findings

This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an article in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.- We have discovered a method for…

Health & Medicine

Discover Tempe: Nutrient-Rich Whole-Grain Vegetarian Food

The food, called tempe, is moreover a whole-grain product with high folate content. It is generally accepted in medicine that whole-grains reduce the risk of…

Life & Chemistry

How to construct a “firefly” worm

The key behind this capacity relies in the fact that the luminescence is produced using the animal’s available energy, which reflects its metabolism that, as…

Physics & Astronomy

The Little Man and the Cosmic Cauldron – VLT images nebulae in Carina

The first one, Eta Carinae, has the shape of a 'little man' and surrounds a star doomed to explode within the next 100 000 years. The second image features a…

Life & Chemistry

Global Drug Research Leverages Diamond Synchrotron in Oxfordshire

Vertex will utilise the Diamond Synchrotron, the largest scientific facility to be built in the UK for 40 years, to advance its research programmes for the…

Physics & Astronomy

Celebrating 10 Years of ESO’s Very Large Telescope Innovation

Today marks the 10th anniversary since First Light with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), the most advanced optical telescope in the world. Since then, the VLT…

Business and Finance

Netherlands Shares Aging Costs with Other EU Nations

The ‘fully funded countries’ will eventually share in the costs of ageing in the ‘PAYG countries’, particularly if these countries are using government debt to…

Communications Media

W3C Invites Partners to Explore Mobile’s Role in Digital Divide

Today W3C invites participation in a new group chartered to explore the potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide. The Mobile Web For…

Physics & Astronomy

September launch for ESA's gravity mission GOCE

As a consequence of the new launch date, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite is currently undergoing final flight…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Rice Husk Innovations Transforming the Chemical Industry

Such a conclusion has been made by specialists of the Republican State Enterprise “National Center for Mineral Raw Materials Complex Recycling of Republic of…

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