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Bridging Africa’s Digital Divide: Innovations for Access

According to Alea Fairchild and Efuwa Quansah of the Free University, Brussels, the information age has changed the way people all around the world live and…

Information Technology

Magnetic Fingerprinting Enhances Airport Safety in Fog

Using magnetic field detectors, a team of researchers, led by Uwe Hartmann and Haibin Gao of Saarland University in Germany, has developed a unique system to…

Information Technology

Feel Virtual Textiles: Explore Haptic Technology Innovations

A revolutionary new interface allows users to really feel virtual textiles. The system combines a specially designed glove, a sophisticated computer model and…

Information Technology

Essential IT Tools for SMEs to Stay Competitive

To remain competitive in an increasingly global market, businesses need to be more dynamic. Large organisations have long used IT tools, such as enterprise…

Life & Chemistry

Targeted Treatments for Autoimmune Diseases: MALT1 Insights

VIB researchers connected to Ghent University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven joined forces and have elucidated the function of MALT1, a key player in…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Ice Loss Accelerates, Approaching Greenland Levels

In a first-of-its-kind study, an international team led by Eric Rignot, professor of Earth system science at UCI and a scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Martian History: Insights from Terby Crater Images

The image data was obtained on 13 April 2007 during orbit 4199, with a ground resolution of approximately 13 m/pixel. The Sun illuminates the scene from the…

Earth Sciences

Man-Made Changes Bring About New Epoch in Earth's History

Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams at the University of Leicester and their colleagues on the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London have…

Environmental Conservation

WMO Enhances Satellite Strategy for Climate Monitoring

The backing came during a two-day high-level meeting that ended 16 January, 2008, in New Orleans, USA. The annual WMO Consultative Meetings on High-level…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST Starts Construction on Hydrogen Pipeline Testing Lab

Construction is just beginning on the 750-square-foot laboratory on the site of a former hydrogen test facility at the NIST campus in Boulder, Colo. The…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Research Lowers Mastitis Cases in Norwegian Cows

The goal of Dr. Whist’s work was to reduce the incidence of the most common bacteria that cause mastitis in Norwegian dairy herds, Staphylococcus aureus and…

Interdisciplinary Research

Tekniker-IK4 Leads Robotics Project with University Teams

Moreover, university teams outstanding in robotics research have also collaborated – from the Carlos III University in Madrid, the Polytechnic University of…

Physics & Astronomy

The mystery of Jupiter’s jets uncovered

A giant perturbation occurred amongst its clouds and two extremely bright storms erupted in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where its most…

Health & Medicine

New Research Questions Vitamin D Deficiency Insights

However, this new research demonstrates that ingested vitamin D is immunosuppressive and that low blood levels of vitamin D may be actually a result of the…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery of Beta Cell Progenitors in Adult Mouse Pancreas

The research group of Harry Heimberg reports these findings in the January 25 issue of the leading edge scientific journal Cell. If these progenitor cells are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Better Energy Storage Through Improved Regulation Systems

In a project funded by Technology Foundation STW, Haimin Tao examined the conditions a good regulation system for energy transfer must meet. As the sources and…

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