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French Pavilion at the heart of Internet World 2012

The French Pavilion (Stand E1090, at Earl’s Court 2, in Central London) will offer a unique environment in which company representatives can discover new…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Matchmaking: Transforming Drug Discovery Methods

For millennia, mankind has discovered new drugs either through educated guesswork or blind luck. But with the proliferation of advanced computing, a new…

Physics & Astronomy

Pulsar Hiccup: Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries of Neutron Stars

Pulsars are superlative cosmic beacons. These compact neutron stars rotate about their axes many times per second, emitting radio waves and gamma radiation…

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Dig Through the Gene Bank to Uncover the Roots of the Evolutionary Tree

Paleontological, biochemical, and genomic studies have produced conflicting versions of the evolutionary tree. Now a team of researchers, led by a professor at…

Event News

FIZ CHEMIE Showcases Info Services at 4th EuCheMS in Prague

At the 4th EuCheMS (August 26-30) in Prague, FIZ CHEMIE will be showing how professional information services can today efficiently support teaching, research…

Materials Sciences

Discovery of New Colossal Magnetoresistance Mechanism

A research group of Dr. Hiroya Sakurai, Senior Researcher, Dr. Taras Kolodiazhnyi, Senior Researcher, and Dr. Yuichi Michiue, Principal Researcher of the…

Life & Chemistry

Genomics Study Links Ancestry to Disease Discovery Insights

However, so many variations among individual genomes exist that identifying mutations responsible for a specific disease has in many cases proven an…

Information Technology

Nanoparticles: When less is more in predicting performance

Nanoparticles can be potent catalysts. Bimetallic nano-alloys of platinum and palladium, for example, can help to generate hydrogen fuel by promoting the…

Studies and Analyses

Germany Leads in Future-Focused Searches: A Global Analysis

A new analysis of more than 45 billion Google queries found that in 2012 Germany searched for the future on the internet more than any other country. The UK…

Physics & Astronomy

Hunt for Distant Planets Intensifies

Along came Jacob Bean, now an assistant professor in astronomy & astrophysics at the University of Chicago, who used a new method called multi-object…

Physics & Astronomy

White dwarf supernovae are discovered in Virgo Cluster galaxy and in sky area “anonymous”

Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova.A supernova…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Links to Common Eye Disorder Uncovered

An international group of researchers has discovered seven new regions of the human genome—called loci—that are associated with increased risk of age-related…

Physics & Astronomy

New Methods for Accurate Measurements of the Universe

Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles [1] to pin down…

Life & Chemistry

UNM Scientists Uncover Chemical to Control Cancer Cell Behavior

It’s the spread of the original cancer tumor that kills most people. That’s why cancer researchers vigorously search for drugs that can prevent metastases, the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Meet the Cat-Like Robot from EPFL’s Biorobotics Lab

Even though it doesn’t have a head, you can still tell what kind of animal it is: the robot is definitely modeled upon a cat. Developed by EPFL’s Biorobotics…

Physics & Astronomy

Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars

Finding extrasolar planets has become so commonplace that it seems astronomers merely have to look up and another world is discovered. However, results from…

Physics & Astronomy

Imaging Electron Pairing in Magnetic Superconductors

In the search for understanding how some magnetic materials can be transformed to carry electric current with no energy loss, scientists at the U.S. Department…

Physics & Astronomy

A Shot in the Dark: Detector on the Hunt for Dark Matter

The search will be conducted with a recently retooled, extremely sensitive detector that is currently in a testing and shakeout phase at the University of…

Awards Funding

Computer Science Professors Win €10M EU Grant for Internet Safety

They will receive roughly 10 million Euro to research methods to protect Internet users against spying and fraud and to expose perpetrators without limiting…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies: Mastering Complex Behaviors With Minimal Neurons

The search mission is another example of fruit flies executing complex behaviors with very little “computational” power, their brains having 100,000 neurons…

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