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Life & Chemistry

Bioscientists develop 'grammar' to design useful synthetic living systems

Known as GenoCAD, the open-source software was developed by researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech to help synthetic biologists…

Studies and Analyses

Titanium Golf Clubs: A Fire Hazard on the Course, UCI Study

Titanium alloy golf clubs can cause dangerous wildfires, according to UC Irvine scientists. When a club coated with the lightweight metal is swung and strikes…

Life & Chemistry

Cholesterol Transporter Structure Unveiled by Researchers

Joint press release of the DZNE and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Sensing Gravity with Acid: Scientists Discover a Role for Protons in Neurotransmission

The team, led by the late MBL senior scientist Stephen M. Highstein, discovered that sensory cells in the inner ear continuously transmit information on…

Studies and Analyses

A brain region for resisting alcohol's allure

As recovering spring breakers are regretting binge drinking escapades, it may be hard for them to appreciate that there is a positive side to the nausea,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Expanding Energy Access to Address Global Challenges

The report is the first of the Climate Pragmatism project, led by Arizona State University’s Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes in partnership with The Breakthrough Institute…

Corporate News

Siemens Secures Fifth Offshore Grid Connection Order from TenneT

Siemens receives an order from TenneT for an offshore wind farm grid connection in the North Sea. In a consortium with Petrofac Siemens will supply the…

Environmental Conservation

Utilizing UV Radiation Data to Enhance Ecological Research

Many research projects study the effects of temperature and precipitation on the global distribution of plant and animal species. However, an important…

Physics & Astronomy

‘Upside-down planet’ reveals new method for studying binary star systems

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first “self-lensing” binary star system — one in which the mass of the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Siemens Installs Second HVDC Converter for TenneT in North Sea

Siemens has installed the BorWin2 offshore platform in the North Sea northwest of the island of Borkum. This marks Siemens’ achievement of the second crucial…

Corporate News

Optimize Clinical Processes with Siemens Consulting Insights

How well do clinical processes work? Are there blind spots? How much time is left over for the patient? And where does one’s own facility stand compared to the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Liberating devices from their power cords: New structural “supercaps” take a lickin’, keep on workin’

This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unplugged Innovation: Advancing Energy Storage Solutions

This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy directly into a wide range of…

Health & Medicine

Clinical Trials Block Autophagy in Multiple Cancers

In the largest group of results to date, researchers from Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center and other institutions have shown in clinical trials that the…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Expands 2014 Hurricane Research for Atlantic Storms

During this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of hurricanes and tropical storms with two unmanned…

Studies and Analyses

Greener Solar Panel Manufacturing: Europe vs. China Insights

“We estimated that a solar panel’s carbon footprint is about twice as high when made in China and used in Europe, compared to those locally made and used in…

Health & Medicine

Boosting Bystander CPR: Save 100,000 Lives in Europe

The best estimates currently available suggest that 350,000 deaths in each year in Europe are due to so called ‘out-of-hospital cardiac arrest’ (OOH-CA).This…

Studies and Analyses

Boost GDP: Cities Invest in Public Transport Upgrades

Worldwide, major cities stand to gain around $800 billion per year of economic opportunity from 2030 by upgrading their public transportation networks. This is…

Information Technology

Security Meets Privacy: ABC4Trust’s New Approach for Youth

The ABC4Trust research team is piloting this technology with young people, often thought to be the less careful about their online security. But ‘that’s not…

Earth Sciences

Modern Ocean Acidification Outpaces Ancient Climate Change

Some 56 million years ago, a massive pulse of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, carbonate sediments…

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