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Exploring Reliable Technology for a Confident Future

Newer and newer models with more and more sophisticated technology are entering the market. Yet, these lovely new devices often just don't function as reliably…

Materials Sciences

Bridge Cable Fails, DuPont™ Hytrel® to the Rescue

Because Hytrel® provides effective electrical insulation and toughness in thin layers, the replacement cables using Hytrel® are more than 40 percent smaller in…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Rice Plants Block Arsenic Uptake to Combat Shortage

Om Parkash of the University of Massachusetts Amherst leads a research team that uses genetic engineering to produce rice plants that block the uptake of…

Environmental Conservation

Diatoms Now Key to Phosphorus Removal in Oceans

The discovery opens up a new realm of research into an element that’s used for reproduction, energy storage and structural materials in every organism. Its…

Physics & Astronomy

Record-Setting Laser Enhances Search for Earthlike Planets

The same NIST group also has shown that this type of laser, when used as a frequency comb—an ultraprecise technique for measuring different colors of…

Health & Medicine

Apples and Juice May Prevent Early Atherosclerosis

Researcher Kelly Decorde from the Universite Montpelier in France was part of the European research team that found apples have similar cardiovascular…

Studies and Analyses

Breastfeeding Boosts IQ: Insights from McGill Study

The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children’s IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill…

Health & Medicine

MIT Engineers Discover New Method to Heal Airway Injuries

MIT tissue engineers have successfully healed airway injuries in rabbits using a technique they believe could apply to the trachea and other parts of the human…

Studies and Analyses

Short Arms and Legs May Increase Dementia Risk, Studies Find

Several studies have shown that early life environment plays an important role in susceptibility to chronic disease later in life. “Body measures such as knee…

Health & Medicine

Ibuprofen Linked to Reduced Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

For the study, researchers identified 49,349 US veterans age 55 and older who developed Alzheimer’s disease and 196,850 veterans without dementia. The study…

Health & Medicine

Botulinum Toxin’s Role in Neurological Disorders Explained

Botulinum toxin may also be used in hemifacial spasm (involuntary facial contractions), blepharospasm, (involuntary eye closure), some voice disorders…

Technology Offerings

New Shielded Magnetic Field Innovation for Spin-Polarized Gases

This innovation from a German university provides a shielded homogeneous magnetic field, especially suited for the transport of spin-polarized gases or…

Technology Offerings

New Columnar Sensor Detects Analytes in Fluids Efficiently

With the present invention an oscillating columnar sensor will be enclosed in such a manner that fluid will not touch its generated surface, but a meniscus…

Technology Offerings

Efficient Control of Parallel-Kinematic Machines Unveiled

This novel modelling processing now allows an efficient description and drive of parallel-kinematic machines by means of a universal procedure, and forms the…

Technology Offerings

Microendoscope Innovation: Faster Data Acquisition Unveiled

With the innovation “Microendoscope with parallel optical data acquisition” the time to collect data during the examination of surfaces which is also producing…

Life & Chemistry

Caribou Calf Mortality: A Sign of Global Warming Effects

Post, who believes that caribou may serve as an indicator species for climate changes including global warming, based his conclusions on data showing that the…

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