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Environmental Conservation

Are Solar UV Rays Impacting Fish Health?

The news is reported in the latest edition of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. Aquatic ecosystems produce over…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Surrey helps 'power up' Atkins new Training Academy

Atkins, with more than 16,000 employees, is one of the UK's top 100 companies. The company specialises in engineering consultancy and has, over the last 30…

Automotive Engineering

Intelligent Driverless Car Project by Dr. Simon Lucas

The project, led by Dr Simon Lucas of the Department of Computer Science, will see researchers build an autonomous model car which will be tested on a race…

Life & Chemistry

Fullerenes: Enhancing Hydrogen Storage for Future Innovations

Their design is being constantly improved, but so far devices have not been created that would contain hydrogen sufficient for wide commercial application. In…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Right- And Left-Eyed Individuals in Innovation

Thirdly, the brain is functionally asymmetric: the left hemisphere (with the right-handers) is mainly connected with abstract-logical thinking and to a larger…

Life & Chemistry

Triplex Assay Enhances SNP and Pathogen Detection in DNA

In the article they present a wealth of data relating to the assay of pathogens in samples also containing human genomic duplex DNA and to the assay of SNPs…

Life & Chemistry

Plague Pathogen’s Antibiotic Resistance: A Growing Concern?

The ability to resist many of the antibiotics used against plague has been found so far in only a single case of the disease in Madagascar. But because the…

Social Sciences

New Research Project Launches on Poverty and NGO Action

Three seemingly unrelated questions but, at their heart, is the issue being addressed by a major new research project, which will be launched by Kumi Naidoo,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

US Nuclear Power Expansion Hindered by Fuel Shortages

Over the past 20 years, safety concerns dampened all aspects of development of nuclear energy: No new reactors were ordered and there was investment neither in…

Technology Offerings

Improved Detection Limits in Solid-Phase Micro-Extraction

The detection limits of trace analysis with a previous SPME-enrichment step can be improved by a factor of four to five thanks to the new inventive process.Further Information: …

Information Technology

Breakthrough in Spintronics: The Future of Smart Electronics

Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of 'spintronics' that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster…

Studies and Analyses

Happy Digital Characters Boost Online Sales, Study Finds

New Ohio State University research suggests that the simulated emotions of digital characters on web sites might have a real impact on the potential customers…

Information Technology

Software pinpoints traffic accident 'hotspots'

The software is publicly available and can be adapted for use by any state, said Christopher Holloman, associate director of the Statistical Consulting Service…

Power and Electrical Engineering

ORNL Advances Next-Gen LEDs for Everyday Use

Seen everywhere today from traffic signals, taillights and cell phone displays to stadium JumboTrons, light emitting diodes fluoresce as electrical current…

Business and Finance

Companies Limit Shareholder Rights: Insights from Arthur Anderson

Pornsit Jiraporn, assistant professor of finance at Penn State Great Valley graduate school, in suburban Philadelphia, said it's hard to say exactly why this…

Life & Chemistry

New Self-Assembling Macromolecules Mimic Natural Processes

Researchers with the Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute (MII www.mii.vt.edu) at Virginia Tech report such a development in the online issue for the…

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