These results were presented this week at the IAU symposium 253 in Massachusetts, USA. COROT has now been operating for 510 days, and the mission started…
Speaking at an Institution of Chemical Engineers’ (IChemE) lecture, Professor Grant Campbell said that bubbles in bread are as important for making a good…
Lately, new technologies applied to improving performance and health have experienced a booming rise. One of those has been the use of vibrating platforms to…
If you try to teach a robot to walk, you will discover just how complex an activity it is. Walking robots have been around since the seventies. The applied…
Sometimes observations confirm a scientific theory perfectly, yet at other times telescopes bring completely new phenomena to light. That is what happened in…
Tracing biological collections, or biobanks, is crucial for genetic studies of all diseases, since using larger and larger collections is becoming the gold…
The paper, “Procalcitonin is a valuable prognostic marker in ARDS caused by community-acquired pneumonia”, measured PCT levels in 22 patients to study its role…
The reproductive system of this insect will be a model to understand stem cells better and make progress in their future use to treat certain human…
A group of researchers of the University of Málaga (UMA) have decided to improve one of such tools to apply it, for example, to the influence of the different…
This increase in sea level is a consequence of global warming. When sea temperature rises, the sea expands and therefore occupies a greater volume. This…
By examining key features in pictures of faces such as regions around cheeks, eye-brows and mouth, computer software has been developed which is able to…
”By looking at biological events we have found differences that in future could be used as markers to make a more secure prognosis for women with ovarian…
Gravity plays a major role in our spatial orientation. Changes in gravitational forces, such as the transition to weightlessness during a space voyage,…
Power transistors are used to control large electrical loads and are at the heart of the modern smart circuits used in all kinds of equipment from motor…
This would enable the position of flame front and their maximum height to be estimated, in real time, using video images. This system could be very helpful in…
Indigineous to the mountainous regions of China and Russia, sea buckthorn has been shown to be rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, flavonoids and essential fatty…
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