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Earth Sciences

Seismic Shock Absorbers Enhance Earthquake Resistance in Woodframe Homes

As part of a major international project to design more earthquake-resistant woodframe buildings, an engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Preemptive Spark Detects Hidden Short Circuits in Airplanes

A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging…

Life & Chemistry

New study finds multiple invasions increase green crab's Canadian range

Using molecular tools, biologist Joe Roman, conducting research at Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, found that it was…

Life & Chemistry

MIT Research Reveals Insights Into Tumor Cell Formation

The work was reported June 8 in the advance online issue of The EMBO Journal, a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Tumor cells…

Environmental Conservation

MIT Warns Against Improper Seafood Disposal Practices

“Live and Fresh Seafood: Into the Pan, Not Into the Wild,” provides details about proper handling and disposal of live seafood and seafood waste and is…

Life & Chemistry

Virus Structure Insights: Bacterial Virus Mimics Human Forms

Structural biologists Juha Huiskonen and Sarah Butcher from the Academy of Finland Virus Research Centre of Excellence, University of Helsinki, have determined…

Information Technology

Overcoming Semantic Challenges in Web Services Integration

That challenge is how to find a robust, efficient and economical way to introduce all these tiny programs to each other, and to alert other programs of their…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling the Prion Crisis: The Protein Behind Cattle Madness

The origin of the crisis was the feeding of cattle with animal feed that was contaminated by a new pathogenic agent – a prion. These cows, after a long…

Studies and Analyses

3 Million Babies Born Through Assisted Reproductive Technologies

According to the 2002 World report on ART presented at the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Prague, Czech…

Information Technology

Digital Healthcare Software Enhances Blindness Treatment Study

In a unique partnership with three image reading centres located in The Queen’s University of Belfast, St Paul’s Eye Unit, Liverpool and Moorfields Eye…

Health & Medicine

Chromosomal Abnormalities in Sperm Post-Vasectomy Reversal

Professor Sukchareon and his team had been studying men with obstructive azoospermia, a condition where sperm are created but cannot be mixed with the…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra-Energetic Particles Detected in Black Hole Jet

Both studies involve the jet of the quasar 3C273, famous since its identification in 1963 as the first quasar. It now appears that the most energetic radiation…

Physics & Astronomy

Cluster Discovers Solar Wind’s Impact on Earth’s Magnetism

Their discovery could allow scientists to finally understand the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetic field. This exciting new view of…

Information Technology

Streamlined Trade Controls: Uncertainty Software Simplifies Assessments

It is now possible to carry out assessments automatically in minutes, guaranteeing consistency in testing from checking quality of trade goods and confirming…

Life & Chemistry

Genome Biology’s first Impact Factor – 9.71

Genome Biology is BioMed Central’s flagship title covering biology in the post-genomic era. Genome Biology publishes articles from the full spectrum of biology…

Information Technology

New Landslide Technology Monitors Soil Stability in Real Time

The Acoustic Real-time Monitoring System gauges the stability of slopes by listening to soil movement. It is hoped that this radical new system will be more…

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