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New Insights on Tsunami Hazards: Are We Prepared?

A new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands – and notes that warning…

Environmental Conservation

'Generalist bacteria' discovered in coastal waters may be more flexible than known before

Now, new research led by a marine microbial ecologist at the University of Georgia is showing for the first time that the roles played by bacteria in coastal…

Physics & Astronomy

Arecibo Astronomers Capture Close-Up of Near-Earth Asteroid

The asteroid, estimated at between 150 and 600 meters in diameter – about 500 feet to 1,900 feet, or the size of a football field, at 360 feet, to the size of…

Physics & Astronomy

Fast Printing of Microscopic Electronics: A New Technique

Solving a fundamental and long-standing quandary, chemical engineers at Princeton developed a method for shooting stable jets of electrically charged liquids…

Physics & Astronomy

Comet Stardust Reveals Asteroid-Like Materials in Samples

When the Stardust mission returned to Earth with samples from the comet Wild 2 in 2006, scientists knew the material would provide new clues about the…

Science Education

TU Delft Researchers Scarano and Vandersypen Win €1.5M Grants

Dr Fulvio Scarano, attached to TU Delft’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering since 2000, is to receive a Euro 1.5 million subsidy for his research into…

Environmental Conservation

Microbes: Nature’s Climate Engineers Reshaping Our Atmosphere

Humans are continually altering the atmosphere. “Arrogant organisms that we are, it is easy to view this as something entirely novel in Earth’s history,” says…

Life & Chemistry

Viruses Boosting Healthy Pregnancies: A New Perspective

Retrovirus infections represent the most intimate host-pathogen relationship. The virus inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of the host cell, resulting…

Information Technology

European Research Infrastructure: Funding and Future Plans

At the end of 2007 the project received a grant from the European Commission towards a total budget of 20 Mio € for the coming two years. Thomas Rachel,…

Physics & Astronomy

VTT and UC Berkeley Launch Project for Efficient Diagnostics

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of California in Berkeley have begun a three-year project to address technology barriers in the…

Awards Funding

Kenneth H. Wathne: Norwegian Researcher Wins International Award

It is far from every day that Norwegian researchers achieve the feat of getting into print in the Journal of Marketing, which is reckoned to be the foremost…

Awards Funding

George Brown Award: Honoring Global Science Collaboration

Since 2005, this award has recognized and honored individuals for their work to promote cross-border science collaboration in the interests of international…

Environmental Conservation

Oil-Eating Bacteria: Unlocking New Potential in Oil Discovery

They are tiny, and they eat oil. Still, they are the ones that can help us obtain more underwater black gold. Oil-eating bacteria will be used to detect oil…

Physics & Astronomy

Crew Oxygen Cargo Loaded on Jules Verne for ISS Mission

The maiden voyage of the first European International Space Station (ISS) resupply spaceship is targeted for no earlier than 22 February. Since early January,…

Science Education

Gdansk and Hamburg Researchers Collaborate on Education Innovations

“The Fall School in Hamburg that I had participated, was a very precious and improving time”, Mariusz Grinholc stated after the First Fall School in Molecular…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Starling Flocks: Insights from the STARFLAG Project

How can they do this? What is the key of their amazing cohesion? This is one of the questions the STARFLAG project – Starlings in Flight – aims to answer. The…

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