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Siemens Launches MBR and Discfilter Tech for Water Treatment

Pleated filtration panels offer increased filtration area for disc filters. “Both innovations increase capacity of water treatment plants”, stated Roland…

Event News

Boao Forum for Asia 2023: Key Innovations Unveiled

The BFA Annual Conference 2008 will be held between April 11th and 13th in the scenic seaside town of Boao, Hainan Province, China.Now in its eighth year, the…

Event News

APSCC 2008 – Satellite Conference and Exhibition

Asia’s largest event for the satellite and space-related industries, the APSCC 2008 Satellite Conference and Exhibition will be held in Jeju Island of Korea….

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover 10 New Exoplanets Beyond Our Solar System

An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic…

Studies and Analyses

Glamorization of Drugs in Rap Music Soars Over 20 Years

Moreover, illegal drug use became increasingly linked during this time period to wealth, glamour and social standing, marking a significant change from earlier…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Expands Cornea Donor Age for Transplantation

Based on findings from the study, the age pool of corneas for transplant should be expanded to include donors up to 75 years of age. The study was funded by…

Studies and Analyses

Ethical Research Innovations: Data Collection Without Harm

The gathering of data for research involving an animal usually involves invasive procedures or death for the experimental animals. But critical data may now be…

Life & Chemistry

How Natural Selection Accelerates Speciation: UBC Research Insights

“A single adaptive trait such as color could move a population towards the process of forming a new species, but adaptation in many traits may be required to…

Transportation and Logistics

Dangerous Goods Database 6.1 Update: Key Regulation Changes

The updated version of the Dangerous Goods Database contains topic-referred effective dangerous goods regulations regardless of the type of traffic. Changes…

Trade Fair News

Siemens Enhances Water Business with Global Re-Organization

“By integrating our business in this way, we will lay the foundations for further growth in water business and expansion of our position in the market”,…

Studies and Analyses

Feed That Cold! How Diet Boosts Immune Function in Deer Mice

Researchers studying deer mice have discovered evidence to support what mothers everywhere have long suspected: the immune system needs food to function…

Studies and Analyses

Yale study suggests evolutionary source of alcoholism's accidental enemy

The study by Hui Li and others in the laboratory of Kenneth Kidd, professor of genetics, psychiatry and ecology & evolutionary biology, will be released April…

Life & Chemistry

Prebiotics — the key to fewer food poisoning stomach upsets — and healthy farm animals

The sugars, or oligosaccharides, are called galacto-oligosaccharides and are already known to improve the health of breast-fed infants. They may also reduce…

Environmental Conservation

Microbes May Hold Key to Coral Reefs’ Climate Resilience

Coral reefs could be dying out because of changes to the microbes that live in them just as much as from the direct rise in temperature caused by global…

Life & Chemistry

Phytoplankton: The Tiny Creatures Fueling Our Ocean’s Oxygen

About half the world’s oxygen is being produced by tiny photosynthesising creatures called phytoplankton in the major oceans. These organisms are also…

Earth Sciences

Kalahari Desert Soils: Adapting to Climate Change Challenges

“Desert soils are unusual because the sand grains at the surface are bound together into a crust by bacteria, reducing wind erosion and adding nutrients to the…

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