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Life & Chemistry

Ultrasound’s Impact on Remote Brain Circuit Control

Their findings, published in the Oct. 29 issue of the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One, provide insights into how low-power ultrasound can be…

Information Technology

New Framework for Efficient Computation by European Scientists

This is to break down large complex processes into small more manageable components that can then be reused in different applications.There are many possible…

Information Technology

Dutch Researchers Unveil Websurfers’ Striking Behavior Patterns

Being able to recognise and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for companies. Edgar de Graaf discovered that interesting patterns often contain a…

Life & Chemistry

Next-Gen Electronic Nose Enhances Chemical Detection Accuracy

Described in a recent paper,* their electronic nose is more adept than conventional methodologies at recognizing molecular features even for chemicals it has…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Primordial Antimatter: Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries

Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts –protons, neutrons and electrons –…

Information Technology

New Computer Model Enhances Ultrasound Image Quality

Dutch researcher Koos Huijssen has developed a computer model that can predict the sound transmission of improved designs for ultrasound instruments. The…

Process Engineering

Innovative Modeling Techniques Transform Ice Cream Production

Everyone is familiar with and enjoys ice cream. But do we really know how it is produced on an industrial scale? During ice cream’s production process, the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electron Pairs Unlock High-Temperature Superconductivity

Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National…

Transportation and Logistics

Intelligent Airlines: Meeting Evolving Passenger Needs

Dimitris Kanellopoulos of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, explains how in recent years, the airline industry has become increasingly…

Health & Medicine

100,000 Lives Saved from Tuberculosis: A Landmark Achievement

During her doctoral degree studies she became President of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease as the first African and the first…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Unlocking Rice Dormancy Insights for Wheat Production

That discovery has important implications for both rice-producing and wheat-producing regions. If red color and dormancy in wheat are controlled by a single…

Physics & Astronomy

Large Hadron Collider – First Step In An Area Unknown To Mankind

Ichiro Oba, Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringKouhei Yorita, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringIn September 2008, the…

Communications Media

Effective Digital Piracy Management: Insights from Experts

Thierry Rayna of the Internet Centre at Imperial College London and Ludmila Striukova Department of Management Science and Innovation, University College…

Physics & Astronomy

Iron-based materials may unlock superconductivity's secrets

In two new papers* on a recently discovered class of high-temperature superconductors, they report that the already complicated relationship between magnetism…

Physics & Astronomy

4 Million Volt Milestone Reached for Next-Gen Particle Accelerator

A major milestone has been achieved in the completion of the UK’s next-generation particle accelerator, ALICE, which is set to produce an intense beam of light…

Awards Funding

«Swiss Computer Science Challenges Award» prizewinner honored / Prizewinning Swiss Visions in Information Technology

“The aim of this competition is to encourage the Swiss computer science community and in particular its younger researchers to determine and address the most…

Information Technology

Georgia Tech Launches Manycore Computing Research Center

A collaborative effort between the Georgia Tech Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the Center for Manycore Computing (CMC) will address deep, foundational…

Health & Medicine

Dioxin Exposure Linked to Higher Cardiovascular Disease Risk

A December 2007 PubMed search of English-language epidemiologic studies and their citations regarding dioxin exposure and CVD mortality provided the basis for…

Health & Medicine

UCAR Weather Forecasts Combat African Meningitis Epidemics

“We’re applying our expertise in weather forecasting to assist health care officials on the front lines of this disease,” says Rajul Pandya, director of UCAR’s…

Life & Chemistry

Collapse of helium’s chemical nobility predicted by Polish chemist

Considered to be the smallest, most chemically inert and least polarizable of the 117 known chemical elements, helium has been challenging chemists for…

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