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Process Engineering

New Mid-Infrared Lasers Boost Efficiency for Defense Systems

As these types of lasers become more efficient, they could be used in next-generation laser-based defense systems to fool incoming missile attacks or detect…

Life & Chemistry

New Biological Classification of Ovarian Cancer – A Possibility for Better Survival

A better prognosis would considerably improve the quality of life of patients since the treatment could be made more effective and thereby result in fewer side…

Health & Medicine

Tracking influenza's every movement

Neither, it turns out. The virus’s breeding grounds are in Asia, a crew of virus-hunters has found, and it then teems out to take over the world anew each…

Studies and Analyses

MR Imaging Predicts Prostate Cancer Treatment Outcomes

The study included 27 patients who had increased levels of prostate specific antigen after being treated with high-intensity focused ultrasonic (HIFU)…

Life & Chemistry

Abnormal 'editing' of gene messages may be a cause of lupus

The findings, reported online in the journal Immunology, involve an enzyme that “edits” and modifies the messages of genes before the protein-making process….

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Uncover Orphan Stars with Upgraded Telescope

Using new charge coupled device (CCD) instrumentation, Case Western Reserve University astronomers can now view the night sky wider and deeper than before.While the vast reaches of intergalactic space may appear dark and empty, a new camera installed on the university's Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., will bring into clear view the faint sea of orphan stars strewn throughout the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Plague of kangaroos threatens one of Australia's last remaining original native grasslands

Australian Department of Defence is currently culling hundreds of kangaroos on the outskirts of the capital Canberra that have produced heated discussions and…

Studies and Analyses

Energy Crops’ Combustion Behavior: Insights from Leeds Study

The study, carried out by engineers from the University of Leeds, examined the combustion behaviour of crops grown specifically for energy creation when put…

Environmental Conservation

EARLINET: Advancing Climate Change Analysis with Aerosol Data

– They have prepared a wide database on atmospheric aerosol’s vertical structure and its temporal development, essential to carry out a climatologic study of…

Information Technology

VELOX Consortium Boosts Multi-Core System Programming

Coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the VELOX consortium gathers nine different partners that include top research and system integration…

Environmental Conservation

Biodiversity Insights: TEEB Study Explores Ecosystem Value

These are the questions the TEEB – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity – project is seeking to answer. The pilot study led by Pavan Sukhdev, who is…

Health & Medicine

Local Cancer Research Gains Momentum with New Fellowships

In its latest round of awards, which brings the number of university research fellowships supported by the charity to 16, HOPE selected three projects that…

Environmental Conservation

Understanding Biodiversity’s Role in Environmental Change

In order to understand the interactions between environmental change, climate change and species loss better, it is necessary to study the role of biodiversity…

Health & Medicine

First Evidence-Based Definition of Lifelong Premature Ejaculation

The results of their in-depth study, conducted by the Standards Committee of the international Society for Sexual Medicine, have just been published online by…

Environmental Conservation

Ocean acidification – another undesired side effect of fossil fuel-burning

Research on ocean acidification is a newly emerging field and was one of the major topics at this year's European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly held…

Life & Chemistry

Fungus Turns Plants into Biofuels with Key Genes

The results, published online on the Nature biotechnology (1) website, show that only a few genes are responsible for the fungus's enzymatic activity. They…

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