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Studies and Analyses

HIV Infection Linked to Few Viruses: Insights for Vaccine Development

The finding provides important clues in the ongoing search for an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine, said researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Survey Reveals Missing Matter in Intergalactic Web

Their analysis represents the most detailed look to-date at the intergalactic medium within about four billion light-years of Earth. The astronomers say they…

Environmental Conservation

Biofuels and Food Crisis: Rethinking Climate Change Strategies

The EU wants biofuels to make up 10 percent of transport fuels by 2020, and whether or not this has caused the recent food crisis, it has already begun to…

Physics & Astronomy

First-Ever Real-Time Observation of a Supernova Explosion

An ordinary observation with NASA’s Swift research satellite recently led to the first real-time sighting of a star in the process of exploding. Astronomers…

Information Technology

Andalusian Researchers Enhance Sleep Heart Activity Software

A group of researchers of the University of Málaga (UMA) have decided to improve one of such tools to apply it, for example, to the influence of the different…

Life & Chemistry

EU Researchers Propose DNA Collection Tracing Like Books

Tracing biological collections, or biobanks, is crucial for genetic studies of all diseases, since using larger and larger collections is becoming the gold…

Physics & Astronomy

Exoplanet Hunt Update: Insights from IAU Symposium 253

These results were presented this week at the IAU symposium 253 in Massachusetts, USA. COROT has now been operating for 510 days, and the mission started…

Life & Chemistry

Peregrine Falcon Webcams Attract Online Birdwatchers

This year, the big hit with falcon-watchers has been the webcam at San Jose City Hall and a pair of falcons named Carlos and Clara, who are now raising three…

Physics & Astronomy

Europeans Collaborate to Unlock Early Universe Secrets

The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained. The availability of…

Environmental Conservation

Microalgae System Reduces CO2 Emissions at Almeria Pilot Plant

On the pilot plant developed at the experimental station of Las Palmerillas, which depends on Spanish bank Cajamar, Almeria-based researchers try to prove the…

Life & Chemistry

First Smell Map Revealed by Weizmann Institute Scientists

Is the smell of almonds closer to that of roses or bananas? Weizmann Institute scientists have now answered that question (roses) by showing for the first time…

Life & Chemistry

Weizmann Scientists Create Enhanced DNA Molecule for Research

Building faultless objects from faulty components may seem like alchemy. Yet scientists from the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,…

Physics & Astronomy

Europeans Unite to Unlock Early Universe Secrets in Physics

The future of fundamental physics research lies in observing the early universe and developing models that explain the new data obtained. The availability of…

Life & Chemistry

Carbon Nanoribbons: The Future of Smaller, Faster Chips

For the first time, a research team led by Hongjie Dai, the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, has made transistors called “field-effect…

Physics & Astronomy

UT Knoxville Uncovers Insights on New High-Temperature Superconductors

The excitement centers around a new class of high-temperature superconductors — initially discovered in February and March by Japanese and Chinese researchers…

Physics & Astronomy

Cassiopeia A: Insights from Interstellar Archaeology

But now, an international scientific team has performed an impressive work of celestial archaeology: they have used the interstellar dust as a look-back mirror…

Transportation and Logistics

In cooperation with global industrial partners – BIBA has begun the development of systems for the automatic loading of goods

Scientists at the Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics GmbH (BIBA) at the University of Bremen already know from the results of their market study…

Event News

Largest Acoustics Meeting in Paris: What to Expect

These sounds — and the scientific advances related to them — will only be found at the Acoustics’08 Paris meeting, to be held Monday June 30 through Friday…

Social Sciences

Exploring Consumer Interaction: The Art of Shopping Today

“Being a consumer sometimes means fantasising and dreaming about objects, and this is boosted when we come face to face with things that arouse various…

Earth Sciences

Antarctic Ice Stream Emits Seismic Signals, New Study Reveals

A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom have found…

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