Sedentary lifestyle may impair academic performance in boys
Credit: Eero Haapala A sedentary lifestyle is linked to poorer reading skills in the first three school years in 6-8 ...
Tailor-made membranes for the environment
Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich In technical systems, membranes can be used to separate gases - in a manner that is more ...
Springer launches new journal Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics
Credit: Springer Starting in 2017, Springer will publish the journal Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics (RMPP), the official journal of ...
New technology of ultrahigh density optical storage researched at Kazan University
According to current estimates, dozens of zettabytes of information will need to be placed somewhere by 2020. New physical principles ...
Better than milk on breakfast cereals: New precision coating method for industrial granular material
As anyone who eats their cereal with milk in the morning knows: coating large volumes of granular material homogeneously is ...
Breaking good: School students make costly drug cheaply using open source approach
Credit: University of Sydney Sydney Grammar students, under the supervision of the University of Sydney and global members of the ...
Agreement signed between Kumamoto University, Japan and the Institut Pasteur, France
Credit: Dr. Naomi Nakagata The Institute of Resource Development and Analysis (IRDA) of Kumamoto University, Japan held a signing ceremony ...
Just keep going
Credit: Wits University When one thinks about chronic conditions that are commonly painful, HIV doesn't typically spring to mind. However, ...
Does investment in sustainable farming pay off?
Exploring the nascent field of sustainable farmland investment, a new report from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment ...
Cycad seed tissue loaded with carbohydrates
Credit: Thomas Marler Learning how to make a seed was one of the crucial transitions for the world's plants. The ...
UBC researcher says management of pine beetle not working
A method to control the spread of mountain pine beetles -- pheromone baiting -- may actually help the pest's population ...
VTT’s spin off company to measure shopping intentions in physical stores
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a unique solution to measure in-store shopper's intentions. The implementation respects privacy ...
Throwing new light on printed organic solar cells
Research from the University of Surrey reveals scientists are able to improve the efficiency of solar cells more than threefold ...
Discovery by NUS researchers suggests new possibility in treating aggressive ovarian cancer
A recent discovery by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore ...
Deep insights from surface reactions
Credit: Tiantian Zhang, Tao Wei, Yuanyuan Han, Heng Ma, Mohammadreza Samieegohar, Ping-Wei Chen, Ian Lian, and Yu-Hwa Lo Things that ...
First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada A team led by Roberto Mignani from INAF Milan (Italy) and from the University of Zielona Gora ...
Partnership of LongeVC and Insilico Medicine to screen for projects maximizing longevity dividend
Credit: LongeVC At the "Ageing Societies 2016," The Economist conference in London, LongeVC and Insilico Medicine entered into a research ...
New guidelines for the investigation of sudden unexpected death in infancy launched
National guidance for professionals handling cases of sudden unexpected child death which draws upon University of Warwick expertise are published ...
A method for storing vaccines at room temperature
Credit: iStock Shipping vaccines in an unbroken temperature-controlled supply chain (a "cold chain") all the way to recipients is a ...
Untangling fibril formation and dissociation in Parkinson’s disease
Prions are a type of protein gone wrong. The complex three-dimensional structure of a prion's progenitor protein has been altered, ...
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