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Power and Electrical Engineering

Sandia’s New Sensor Detection System Boosts Accuracy

By integrating readily available generic sensors with a more sophisticated sensor, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a detection…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Fungal Secrets: Key Gene Discovered by Scientists

Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Duke University Medical Center have pinpointed a fungal gene that appears to play an important role in…

Life & Chemistry

Why do some queen bees eat their worker bee's eggs?

For some species, such as bumble bees, this is the source of many of the males in the species. But in others, like the honeybee, workers “police” each other –…

Physics & Astronomy

Ray Charles: The Art of Swing in His Iconic Snaps

Ray Charles was really good at snapping, said musical acoustician Kenneth Lindsay of Southern Oregon University in Ashland. Charles's snaps that open “It Don't…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Vanishing Beetle Horns and Their Functions

In this month's American Naturalist (Dec. 2006) and the Nov. 2006 issue of Evolution, Indiana University Bloomington scientists present an entirely new…

Life & Chemistry

HIV-1’s Impact on Gut Immune Cells: New Insights Unveiled

In fact, most patients on the drug regimen do so well that, according to blood tests, their immune cells appear to return to pre-HIV levels. But two new…

Environmental Conservation

Reducing Air Pollution Boosts India’s Rice Harvest Potential

Rice harvests increased dramatically in India during the “Green Revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, making the country self-sufficient in its staple food….

Life & Chemistry

How Gene-Bending Proteins Recognize DNA Binding Sites

How does the protein recognize a particular binding site” Structural changes in both the protein and DNA, sometimes with the DNA within the complex kinked or…

Physics & Astronomy

New Magnetic Device Discovery Boosts Computer Power

Physicist at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Leeds have discovered a way to precisely control the pattern of magnetic fields in thin magnetic films,…

Environmental Conservation

New Insights on Water Resources: WADEMED Project Update

It is closely linked to the European WADEMED project, a knowledge base on water demand management in the Maghreb that set out to develop integrated tools for…

Life & Chemistry

Inexpensive, Sustainable Production Method Developed by PhD Researcher

After just two years of PhD research, she will receive her doctorate degree based on this research subject on December 11. Maaike Kroon (25) is regarded as an…

Communications Media

MPs Embrace Social Media to Engage Modern Audiences

Politics is one of those areas where the transformation of ‘the public’ from a single audience (in the form of television viewers and newspaper readers) to a…

Health & Medicine

Avian Flu Linked to Other Virus Infections: Key Insights

Professor Zhizhong Cui from Shandong Agricultural University presented data which showed that sporadic outbreak of avian flu could coincide with infections by…

Health & Medicine

New Research Explores Stroke Development with DWI Analysis

DWI is being used to systematically evaluate patients with crytogenic stroke comparing patterns of abnormalities in those with and without patent foramen ovale…

Health & Medicine

Global Diagnostics Leaders Unite for Biomedical Institute Launch

World leaders in the field of diagnostics will assemble at Dublin City University next week to participate in the launch of the Biomedical Diagnostics…

Health & Medicine

World’s Largest Clinical Trial Into Rare Bone Cancer ‘Well Underway’ Conference Hears

The EURAMOS clinical trial, which involves a collaboration across 11 European countries, as well as the US and Canada, is on course to recruit some 1400…

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