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Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Decode Unique Sounds of Quantum Drums

If drums of different shapes always produce their own unique sound spectrum, then it should be possible to identify the shape of a specific drum merely by…

Environmental Conservation

Fishermen and UCSB Team Up to Enhance Spiny Lobster Management

An innovative collaboration has developed between local trap fishermen and scientists at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the…

Studies and Analyses

New Therapy Promises Hope for Lung Disease Patients

It has been commonly believed that high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) or hypercapnia in the blood and lungs of patients with acute lung disease may be…

Studies and Analyses

Shrew Hunting Methods: A Study on Sophisticated Predator Skills

Shrews are tiny mammals that have been widely characterized as simple and primitive. This traditional view is challenged by a new study of the hunting methods…

Physics & Astronomy

NRL Scientists Create Carbon Nanotubes from Common Polymers

The concentration of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) and metal nanoparticles can be easily varied within the shaped carbonaceous solid. Carbon nanotube…

Social Sciences

Active Father Figures Improve Children’s Mental Health Outcomes

Swedish researchers also found that regular positive contact reduces criminal behaviour among children in low-income families and enhances cognitive skills…

Physics & Astronomy

The Poincaré Dodecahedral Space model gains support to explain the shape of space

In parallel, another international team has analyzed with new techniques the last data obtained by the WMAP satellite and found a topological signal…

Physics & Astronomy

Jules Verne ATV Launch Set for Ariane 5 Mission

The 20-tonne European resupply and space-tug module will be carried into orbit by a special version of the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The launcher, operated by…

Power and Electrical Engineering

UK Electronics Industry Secures EU Funding for Chip Innovation

The funding for the projects, DUALLOGIC, NANOSIL and REALITY, will support research aimed at creating a new generation of faster and bigger electronic chips…

Environmental Conservation

Energy-Free Air Conditioning: The Solar Chimney Concept

Writing in the inaugural issue of Inderscience's International Journal of Sustainable Design, the team explains the concept of a combined solar chimney and…

Automotive Engineering

Smart Cars Connect: Com2React Innovations Enhance Safety

The Com2React team says their technology could be useful to drivers, traffic police, emergency services and companies with a fleet of vehicles to manage.The…

Science Education

ECNP Unveils Grant for Emerging Neuropsychopharmacology Researchers

The objective of the grant is to provide the opportunity for committed, promising European young scientists in neuropsychopharmacology and/or closely related…

Communications Media

First >100 Mbps mobile SDR baseband platform in processing

The FLAI platform incorporates two IMEC-proprietary ADRES (architecture for dynamically reconfigurable embedded systems) baseband processors fully supported by…

Earth Sciences

La Niña conditions strengthen, expected to continue

The ongoing La Niña event started in the third quarter of 2007 and has already influenced climate patterns during the last six months across many parts of the…

Life & Chemistry

Prions Connect Cholesterol Disruption to Neurodegeneration

A new study published in the online open access journal BMC Biology suggests that disturbances in membrane cholesterol may be the mechanism by which prions…

Life & Chemistry

MIT develops thin-film 'micro pharmacy'

The film could eventually be used to deliver drugs for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and other diseases. It is among the first drug-delivery coatings that can be…

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