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Innovative Heating And Cooling For Waterside Structures

Lausitz University of Applied Sciences invented a process for heating and/or cooling structures built on or near water. The novel process permits to reduce…

Environmental Conservation

Sunspots and Rain: Predicting Disease in East Africa

The scientists showed that unusually heavy rainfalls in East Africa over the past century preceded peak sunspot activity by about one year.”The hope is that…

Studies and Analyses

New Insights Into Cancer Mechanisms by MUHC and McGill

An article published in the August 3 issue of Molecular Cell provides a key to these mechanisms that may prove crucial in the future. The paper is co-authored…

Health & Medicine

Miniature Devices Show Promise for Epilepsy and Glaucoma

Findings will be detailed in three research papers being presented at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society's Sciences and Technologies for Health…

Environmental Conservation

New Species Discovered in Lost Forest Near Lake Tanganyika

The forested region—including the Misotshi-Kabogo Forest (formerly Mt. Kabobo)—and nearby Marunga Massif is located just west of Lake Tanganyika and has been…

Studies and Analyses

'Convenience' foods save little time for working families at dinner

“I really expected to see takeout used more often,” said Margaret Beck, a researcher at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) and author of the…

Health & Medicine

High-Intensity Ultrasound Boosts Immune Attack on Cancer

The new findings from animal experiments suggest that once activated by the ultrasound, the immune system might even seek and destroy cancer cells, including…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Community-Supported Agriculture: A Local Alternative to Globalization

Organic food was once an economic haven for small farms who distributed their goods predominantly through local channels such as farmers’ markets and food…

Studies and Analyses

Why guilt doesn't keep some of us from making the same mistakes twice

Yet, in spite of documented ambivalence towards temptation and well-meaning vows not to succumb again, consumers often end up repeating the same or similar…

Communications Media

Eye-Tracking Research Reveals What We Notice in Ads

However, new research by researchers from the Netherlands and the University of Michigan uses eye-tracking software to reveal that it may be our goals – the…

Studies and Analyses

The grass isn't greener

There are many consumer decisions that we have to make over and over again, such as selecting a restaurant to eat at in our neighborhood or deciding which…

Materials Sciences

New Advances in Thin Film Science: Key Mechanical Insights

A remarkably simple experiment devised by scientists yields important information about the mechanical properties of thin films–nanoscopically thin layers of…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum analog of Ulam's conjecture can guide molecules, reactions

Now, by creating a quantum mechanical analog of Ulam’s conjecture, researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of California have expanded the…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Elephant Seals’ Winter Feeding Journeys

The measurements reveal in detail where the seals go on their winter feeding trips, where they find food and where they don’t, and help explain why some…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Brain Networks That Control Walking

In a study published in the August issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland found that there are…

Health & Medicine

Better Mobility Enhances Seniors’ Health: Key Research Insights

In a paper published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, published by Elsevier, researchers closely examined the factors…

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