CO2 emissions in Russia go up in line with economic growth up until a certain point
Pollution in Russia increases along with economic growth, but only until it reaches a certain threshold, from where it starts to decrease, demonstrates a recent...
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33,000 people die every year due to infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Credit: ECDC/TLID The authors said "the estimated burden of infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU/EEA is substantial compared to that of other infectious diseases,...
Ice Memory: the Italian Cnr and Ca’ Foscari mission begins with the Grand Combin
Credit: Riccardo Selvatico (Cnr / Ca' Foscari University of Venice) The 4200 meters of the Grand Combin glacier, on the border between Switzerland and Italy,...
Novel tracer developed for precision targeting of non-small cell lung cancer
Credit: Zhaoguo Han, Yadi Xiao, Kai Wang, Ji Yan, Zunyu Xiao, Fang Fang, Zhongnan Jin, Yang Liu and Baozhong Shen, J Nucl Med Nov 2018....
Spotting and stopping the spectrum saboteurs
Credit: IMDEA Networks Institute A new research project has been launched with the aim of developing a system for detecting threats to the electromagnetic space....
DARPA expands SwRI’s flight test interoperability contract to include ground vehicles
Credit: Image Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 6, 2018 -- Southwest Research Institute is helping the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
Los Alamos pursues efficient computing with Cray, Marvell, and Arm
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., November 5, 2018--In a drive to significantly boost usable operations per watt, per dollar and per development...
Making steps toward improved data storage
Credit: Kyoto University/Hirori Lab Kyoto, Japan -- A team of scientists has created the world's most powerful electromagnetic pulses in the terahertz range to control...
University of Sydney partners with Korean steelmaker, POSCO
Credit: Sandra Margon, The University of Sydney The University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and IT has today announced its partnership with Korean multinational steelmaker,...
HKBU and Tencent break world record for fast and accurate AI training
Credit: HKBU Researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have partnered with a team from Tencent Machine Learning to create a new technique for training...
Scientists to track the reaction of crystals to the electric field
Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University The international scientific team, which included the researchers and alumni of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic...
Removing multi-resistant bacteria from sewage
Credit: Bin im Garten, CC BY-SA 3.0 According to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety, 700 to 800 t of antibiotics are...
External structure can affect the function of enzymes
Credit: RUB, Marquard A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and from South Africa has analysed two enzymes with identical substrate binding pockets that nevertheless...
Supermarket produce harbors antibiotic-resistance genes
Washington, DC - November 6, 2018 - Researchers from the Julius Kühn Institut, Germany have found that produce is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance...
Eat your vegetables (and fish): Another reason why they may promote heart health
Rockville, Md. (November 6, 2018)--Elevated levels of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)--a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet--may reduce hypertension-re..
