UN-backed report: Record new renewable power capacity added worldwide at lower cost
Credit: UN Environment Frankfurt / Nairobi - As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity...
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EU Excellence Award for research on matter-antimatter plasma
Credit: Graphic: IPP The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a matter-antimatter plasma composed of electrons...
Buckle up! Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences; image credit: Paul Williams Turbulence strong enough to catapult unbuckled passengers and crew around the aircraft cabin could become twice...
Further reductions in radiotherapy to young children with brain tumors less successful
Credit: CHLA A team of investigators has determined that young children participating in a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of reduced radiotherapy did worse...
For horseshoe bats, wiggling ears and nose makes biosonar more informative
Credit: Logan Wallace/Virginia Tech Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats have more than 20, and...
Living in an area with high air pollution may impact women’s breast density
A study of nearly 280,000 women in the United States has found that living in areas with a high level of fine particles from air...
Project Hotspot
Credit: J.A. Kessler, The Geological Society of America, and Lithosphere Boulder, Colo., USA: In their study published in Lithosphere this week, James Kessler and colleagues...
Chemical sensor on the basis of materials possessing molecular memory created
Credit: Vita Nikitina Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated an electrochemical sensor on the basis of polymers...
£10 million deal to boost impact of animal science innovations
(University of Edinburgh) Innovations that improve the health of farmed animals and raise agricultural productivity will be brought to market with the support of a...
Neuro Kinetics announces another breakthrough in eye tracking assessment and technology
PITTSBURGH, PA (April 5, 2017) -- Neuro Kinetics, Inc. (NKI), the global leader in clinical eye tracking and neural functional assessment, announces the issuance of...
Study examines effects of spaceflight on immune system
Credit: NASA Getting sick isn't fun for anyone, but it could be especially taxing for crew members aboard the International Space Station. Protecting crew health...
USDA announces $6.3 million in available funding to combat childhood obesity
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $6.3 million in available...
USDA announces $1.2 million to support aquaculture research projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.2 million in available...
Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa
Next time you bite into a chocolate bar, think of Africa. The continent produces nearly 70 percent of the world's cocoa, a growing output that...
Lego figures don’t stand a chance against time reversal
Credit: Brigham Young University A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the silence before being replaced by...
