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Medical Engineering

New from Leica Microsystems – the World’s Most Compact Neurosurgical Microscope with Horizontal Optics

Whatever the position of the patient, even sitting upright, operations can be performed without arm, back or neck strain. The microscope allows hours of…

Materials Sciences

Ski base plate of DuPont™ Hytrel® improves comfort and handling

The engineering polymer facilitates the particularly cost-efficient production of the thick-walled parts, and, due to its high impact strength, even at…

Studies and Analyses

Unlocking Fingertip Dexterity: The Science Behind Our Skills

Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding the Genetics of a Rare Photosynthetic Bacterium

The researchers, from Arizona State University and Washington University, St. Louis, report in the current online edition (Feb. 4) of the Proceedings of the…

Earth Sciences

New Hybrid Vehicle Tested in Ocean by WHOI Researchers

Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.)…

Environmental Conservation

Madagascar's tortoises are crawling toward extinction

The groups, which met for four days in Madagascar’s capital city Antananarivo, said there is still hope to save these ancient animals, but time is running out…

Studies and Analyses

Genetic Link Between Cystic Fibrosis and Bone Complications

Dr Haston’s study is pointing at genetics as contributing to this bone frailty, a finding which may have some implications in changing therapeutic practices….

Health & Medicine

New Training Method Boosts Hip Surgery Outcomes by 95%

Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more…

Medical Engineering

Knee Brace Converts Walking Energy into Electricity

A report on the device is published in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Science. Authors include researchers from Simon Fraser University in Canada and the…

Environmental Conservation

Urban ecology: taking measure of the coming megacity's impact

If you are reading this, chances are that you live in a city – one, perhaps, on its way to becoming a megacity with a population that exceeds 10 million or…

Life & Chemistry

Cornell Scientists Uncover Protein’s Role in Gene Regulation

Their research is in a study published today (Feb.8, 2008) in the journal Science. “This finding was unexpected — especially since it entails a broad…

Studies and Analyses

Prenatal Alcohol and Stress Link to Touch Sensitivity in Monkeys

In human children, sensitivity to touch is one of a number of characteristics of the approximately 5 percent of children who over-respond to sensory…

Physics & Astronomy

Nuclear “Eye” Reveals that Napoleon was Not Poisoned

The physicists performing the study used a small nuclear reactor used exclusively for research purposes at the University of Pavia, applying techniques that…

Science Education

€5.5 Million Boost for Engineering Research in Ireland

The funding which is part of Science Foundation Ireland’s Engineering Professorship and Lectureship Programme will support three Engineering Professorships and…

Life & Chemistry

New Spironucleus Parasite Species Threatens Farmed Fish Health

Single-celled parasites of the genus Spironucleus are known to produce serious illness in farmed and aquarium fish. In farmed salmon, these parasites create…

Business and Finance

Corporate Social Responsibility Boosts Company Value Insights

In four sub-research projects, Dam investigated the economics of corporate social responsibility, with the emphasis on the role of financial markets and…

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