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New Rules Impact Trustworthiness of Online Transactions

At issue is the practice of requiring web surfers to submit personal information in order to conduct online transactions. Web proprietors can then track the…

Physics & Astronomy

Optical Breakthrough Makes “Lab-on-a-Chip” Possible

Georgia Tech researchers have found a way to shrink all the sensing power of sophisticated biosensors — such as sensors that can detect trace amounts of a…

Materials Sciences

New Method Cuts Sulfur in Petroleum Fuels Efficiently

Increasingly strict environmental legislation is being applied to motor vehicle emissions. An important aspect of these regulations is the restriction of the…

Life & Chemistry

New Process Enhances Wastewater Treatment and Concrete Chemicals

Sodium aluminate is commonly used in waste water treatment plants to remove suspended solids, some metals and dissolved silica. In construction, sodium…

Materials Sciences

Superalloy Joining: Transient Liquid Phase Bonding Insights

The high mechanical strength and corrosion resistant nature of oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) superalloys puts them in demand for use in extreme…

Materials Sciences

Nanotechnology Enhances Biocompatibility in Prosthetics

As populations of the world age the current trend is that people are not slowing down in their later years. The desire for increased activity among the elderly…

Studies and Analyses

Sonographically Guided Therapy: Enhancing Recovery in Soccer Players

The study consisted of ten professional soccer players, between the ages of 22-30, with no previous posterior ankle pain who underwent MRI and sonographically…

Health & Medicine

Computer-Aided Detection Boosts Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis

The study was conducted to evaluate the impact of CAD in a non-academic setting, most notably its effect on cancer detection in both screening and diagnostic…

Studies and Analyses

MDCT vs. Digital Radiography in Orthopedic Imaging

Forty-three patients with histories of fractures, arthrodesis (joint fusion) or spinal fusions who'd undergone MDCT and conventional radiography for the…

Life & Chemistry

Quick — what’s that smell?

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center have found that taking as little as a hundred milliseconds longer to smell an odor results in more accurate…

Information Technology

W3C Expands Internationalization in Speech Synthesis Markup

Today, the W3C announced the results of the second Workshop on Speech Synthesis Markup Language, where speech experts from around the world presented ideas for…

Information Technology

EU Quantum Research: Unlocking New Computing Potential

Or so believes Daniele Binosi (of the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck, Austria, and the European Centre for Theoretical…

Medical Engineering

University ‘spin-out’ to revolutionise biomedical optics

Optopod Ltd, the brainchild of Adrian Podoleanu, Professor of Biomedical Optics and Head of the Applied Optics Group in the School of Physical Sciences, has…

Information Technology

Enhancing Mobile Web: Innovations in Accessible Technologies

The aim of the three-year project is to develop a host of new software with the potential to make the mobile web as simple to use as the internet.Currently,…

Life & Chemistry

Forecasting earth's pollution from space

The Canadian scientist, who once helped to establish the presence of water molecules on the sun, says the challenge of monitoring air quality and pollution in…

Information Technology

Computer Software Innovation Fights Bullying in Schools

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn from the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Computer Science and her interdisciplinary research team is part of a European…

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