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…
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…
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…
Described in a recent paper,* their electronic nose is more adept than conventional methodologies at recognizing molecular features even for chemicals it has…
Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts –protons, neutrons and electrons –…
Dutch researcher Koos Huijssen has developed a computer model that can predict the sound transmission of improved designs for ultrasound instruments. The…
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…
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…
Dimitris Kanellopoulos of the Technological Educational Institute of Patras, explains how in recent years, the airline industry has become increasingly…
During her doctoral degree studies she became President of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease as the first African and the first…
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…
Ichiro Oba, Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringKouhei Yorita, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and EngineeringIn September 2008, the…
Thierry Rayna of the Internet Centre at Imperial College London and Ludmila Striukova Department of Management Science and Innovation, University College…
In two new papers* on a recently discovered class of high-temperature superconductors, they report that the already complicated relationship between magnetism…
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…
“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…
A collaborative effort between the Georgia Tech Colleges of Computing and Engineering, the Center for Manycore Computing (CMC) will address deep, foundational…
A December 2007 PubMed search of English-language epidemiologic studies and their citations regarding dioxin exposure and CVD mortality provided the basis for…
“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…
Considered to be the smallest, most chemically inert and least polarizable of the 117 known chemical elements, helium has been challenging chemists for…