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Automotive Engineering

LLNL’s prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance

Unlike conventional liquid hydrogen (LH2 tanks in prototype cars, the LLNL pressure vessel was parked for six days without venting evaporated hydrogen vapor.The LLNL development has significantly increased the amount of time it takes to start releasing hydrogen during periods of long-term parking, as compared to today’s liquid hydrogen tanks capable of holding hydrogen for merely two to four days….

Life & Chemistry

Sequencing Brucella Abortus S19 Genome Reveals Virulence Insights

Strain S19 is a naturally occurring strain of B. abortus that does not cause disease and was discovered by Dr. John Buck in 1923. It has been used for more…

Health & Medicine

Hunger Hormone Ghrelin May Alleviate Stress-Related Depression

While levels of the so-called “hunger hormone” ghrelin are known to increase when a person doesn’t eat, findings by UT Southwestern scientists suggest that the…

Business and Finance

Do leaks imperil M&A deals? IntraLinks and Cass study indicates leaked deals cost time and money

In what is thought to be the world’s first research focused on pre-announcement market leaks in M&A, Cass established a universe of over 350,000 M&A deals…

Life & Chemistry

New Design Promises Custom Drugs With Fewer Side Effects

Sten Ohlson has extensive experience of research into so-called transient biomolecular binding. Such binding is short-lived­-the biomolecules touch each other…

Environmental Conservation

Finns Tackle Climate Change With Long-Term Carbon Goals

The long-term goals reach as far as 20 years into the future, and the ultimate goal is a carbon-neutral municipality.In the project, the municipalities will…

Life & Chemistry

New Cellular Mechanism Boosts Vaccine Development Insights

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) scientists have discovered one for the textbooks. Their finding, reported Friday in the scientific journal…

Information Technology

Space radar to improve miners’ safety

Using space technology developed for ESA for the special ground penetration radar GINGER (Guidance and Into-the-Ground Exploration Radar) that will be mounted…

Earth Sciences

Laser Fluorescence: A New Tool for Mars Life Detection

The researchers’ proposed instrumentation could operate on any Mars lander or rover, they say, such as the current Phoenix mission or NASA’s Mars Science…

Life & Chemistry

Hard Shell, Soft Core: The Rise of Zinc Oxide Semiconductors

Semiconductors have become indispensable for modern technology. For example, oxide semiconductors such as zinc oxide (ZnO) are the materials of choice for…

Life & Chemistry

Alzheimer's disease as a case of brake failure?

Rutgers researcher Karl Herrup and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University have discovered that a protein that suppresses cell division in brain cells…

Communications Media

Census of Marine Life Surpasses 122,500 Species Mark

Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists consolidating world databases of ocean organisms have demoted to alias status almost one-third of all names culled…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Impact Reveals Secrets Behind Mars Dichotomy

Was it sculpted by several small impacts, via mantle convection in the planet’s interior, or by one giant impact? Now scientists at the California Institute of…

Information Technology

Online Service Empowers Blind Users to Surf the Internet Anywhere

People move from home computers to work computers to mobile devices; public kiosks pop up in libraries, schools and hotels; and people increasingly store…

Communications Media

Bradford’s Role in Olympic TV Innovation Project

LIVE is an integrated research project partially funded under the European Union’s IST Sixth Framework Programme. It is being co-ordinated from the Fraunhofer…

Life & Chemistry

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hits 1 Terabase Weekly Genomes

The amount of data is remarkable: every two minutes, the Institute produces as much sequence as was deposited in the first five years of the international DNA…

Information Technology

Galileo System Procurement Starts: Enhancing European Navigation

The overall programme objective for Galileo is the deployment, by 2013, of a European navigation system providing five main services, namely the Open Service,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Crop Yields: Understanding Soil Water Availability

Quantitative determination of the maximum amount of plant-available water in soil using traditional methods on soil samples remains challenging, especially at…

Earth Sciences

New Evidence Bolsters Exploding Asteroid Theory in Ohio, Indiana

Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America — when…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on TB Treatment Tackle Drug Resistance Challenges

Multi drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, sparked concern but the recent emergence of extensively…

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