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Materials Sciences

Genetic Algorithms Uncover New Nanostructured Materials

The study, published in the October 28 Early Online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first to demonstrate the…

Information Technology

Open the World to blind people with the iDevice developed by UNIST Undergrads.

It seems like the world has been made smaller by the modern internet and smartphone technologies. Yet, for the blind or visually impaired people, those…

Physics & Astronomy

New Dark Matter Detector Begins Data Collection 1.5Km Underground

They have set up the experiment to identify the nature of dark matter, an invisible substance that physicists believe is all around us, making up most of the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Quantum Light Source Enhances Stability for Information Tech

The scientists have actively stabilized the wavelength of the photons emitted by a semiconductor thereby neutralizing the charge noise in the semiconductor….

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing X-Ray Crystallography for Better Protein Insights

Technology’s workhorse for determining protein structures is X-ray protein crystallography, in which a beam of x-rays sent through a crystallized protein is…

Materials Sciences

Three-dimensional carbon goes metallic

A theoretical, three-dimensional (3D) form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Research Uncovers New Pathway to Heart Attacks

Starting with a severely affected family, a research research team led by Jeanette Erdmann, Christian Hengstenberg and Heribert Schunkert (Institut für…

Health & Medicine

New Research Sheds Light on Omitting Care Across Europe

A study by the Institute of Nursing Sciences at the University of Basel shows that all European countries are affected, but variability in these and other…

Physics & Astronomy

The secrets of a bug's flight

Researchers have identified some of the underlying physics that may explain how insects can so quickly recover from a stall in midflight — unlike conventional…

Earth Sciences

Ancient Bacterial Ecosystems Discovered in Australia’s Rocks

Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks are not only rare, but also almost always altered by hydrothermal and tectonic activity. A new study from a team including…

Physics & Astronomy

The Secrets of a Bug's Flight

Researchers have identified some of the underlying physics that may explain how insects can so quickly recover from a stall in midflight — unlike conventional…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Interplay in Muscle Linked to Lifespan Insights

The new study in PLoS Genetics, which may have broad implications across species, identifies the fly version the mammalian protein activin as the central…

Trade Fair News

SIVAL increases floor space for crop industry in 2014

Organized by Angers Expo Congrès for the past 25 years, SIVAL takes place in Angers (North-Western France), at the heart of the leading crop-production region….

Health & Medicine

Drug reduces brain changes, motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease

A drug that acts like a growth-promoting protein in the brain reduces degeneration and motor deficits associated with Huntington’s disease in two mouse models…

Life & Chemistry

Human Stem Cells Transformed Into Functional Lung Cells

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in transforming human stem cells into functional lung and airway cells. The advance, reported by Columbia…

Earth Sciences

Aquifers at Risk: Impact of Silted Riverbeds on Water Supply

Results of the National Research Programme “Sustainable Water Management” (NRP 61) suggest that the irregular decrease might be related to various degrees of…

Earth Sciences

The Science Behind Accurate Forecasting Techniques

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future,” the Danish physicist Niels Bohr said – probably; because this quote has been attributed to at…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling Membrane Transport: The Science Behind Fluid Movement

Now scientists report that they have found a way to penetrate the mystery. They have worked out every step in the molecular dance that enables one such…

Health & Medicine

Human Stem Cells Enhance Alzheimer Drug Testing Efficacy

A research team from the University of Bonn and the biomedical enterprise LIFE & BRAIN GmbH has been able to show that results of established test methods with…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Linked to 1% of Tumors in Cancer Patients Identified

Researchers have identified a gene that drives the development of tumours in over one per cent of all cancer patients. This is the first time that the gene…

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