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Life & Chemistry

A 'private bandwidth' for communication in bats: Evidence from insular horseshoe bats

A new study in the Journal of Biogeography by Danilo Russo and colleagues suggests that this is certainly the case for horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae). These…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Renewable Energy: Is It the Sustainable Solution We Need?

Increasing energy consumption and a growing world population implies shrinking reserves of fossil fuels. While the use of fossil fuels brings with it the…

Technology Offerings

RHODOGLASS: Advancing Photochromic Bio-Coatings for Security

Photochromic materials for holographic data storage, photosensitive sensors and security applications have a high innovative potential. Due to poor durability…

Technology Offerings

Bioinspired Antifouling Agents: Nature’s Defense Solutions

Protective natural products from sessile animals as highly efficient bioactive antifouling agents.

BIANTS are synthesised bastadins, modified depsipeptides,…

Technology Offerings

Discover DRPevader: Early Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy

A novel ex vivo method for immediate early diagnosis and prognosis of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (DRP) is provided with DRPevader.

DRPevader is based…

Physics & Astronomy

Computers Unveil NASCAR Physics Insights for Sports Tech

The algorithm, first presented at a computer graphics conference last August, was since used by sports network ESPN and sporting-technology company Sportvision…

Life & Chemistry

NIH Scientists Target Future H5N1 Pandemic Strains

Led by Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D., director of the NIAID’s Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center (VRC), the team is reporting in the August 10, 2007…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Change’s Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Wetlands

Permafrost serves like a platform underneath vast expanses of northern forests and wetlands that are rooted, literally, in melting permafrost in many northern…

Environmental Conservation

Cities May Trigger Thunderstorms, Study Finds

Alexandros A. Ntelekos and James A. Smith of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science based their conclusion on computer models and…

Physics & Astronomy

FSU physicist takes a trip to nuclear 'island of inversion'

Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida State University collaborated with other scientists from the United States, Japan and England in an experiment that…

Physics & Astronomy

Emory Physicist Unveils New Insights Into Glass Behavior

An Emory University research team led by physicist Eric Weeks has yielded another clue in the glass puzzle, demonstrating that, unlike liquids, glasses aren't…

Information Technology

TableRank: New Search Engine Ranks Tables by Content

The engine's innovative ranking algorithm, TableRank, also can identify tables found in frequently cited documents and weigh that factor as well in the search…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Regulation: Key to Understanding Evolution’s Mechanism

“We’ve known for a while that the protein coding genes of humans and chimpanzees are about 99 percent the same,” said senior author Michael Snyder, the Cullman…

Life & Chemistry

deCODE Identifies Key Gene Linked to Exfoliation Glaucoma

The SNPs are located in the LOXL1 gene on chromosome 15, and confer respectively 26-fold and 8-fold increases in risk of exfoliation glaucoma compared to the…

Environmental Conservation

Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation

These findings have significant implications related to the sustainability and conservation of these globally-important areas.Michigan State University…

Studies and Analyses

Arctic Climate Study: Industrial Soot’s Impact Revealed

Scientists from the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and their collaborators have determined that Northern Hemisphere industrial pollution resulted in a…

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