Florida State University researchers have spearheaded a major review of fisheries data that examines the domino effect that occurs when too many fish are harvested from one habitat. The loss of a major species from an ecosystem can have ...
With three new studies finding that a daily multivitamin won't help boost the average American's health, the experts behind the research are urging people to abandon use of the supplements. The studies found that popping a daily ...
Should people in danger of contracting HIV because they have risky sex take a pill to prevent infection, or will the medication encourage them to take even more sexual risks? After years of debate on this question, a new international ...
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While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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Given that CARTS International 2013 was held in Houston, TX, a key center for energy exploration, it should come as no surprise that a number of papers presented discussed parts that can operate reliably in harsh environments, with ...
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The bedtime you select for your toddler may be out of sync with his or her internal body clock, which can contribute to difficulties for youngsters attempting to settle in for the night, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder ...
Married couples who are heavy drinkers and those who don't drink tend to stay married, but couples with one heavy drinker tend to divorce, U.S. researchers say. Lead author Kenneth Leonard, director of the University of Buffalo Research ...
Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA has introduced a physics-based model for its opto model library that quickly and accurately solves the challenges posed by signal distortion in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers ...
The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, USA has demonstrated what is reckoned to be the first monolithically integrated light-emitting diode (LED) and high-electron-mobility ...
Tags: Smart Lighting, GaN Chip
Posted by Jack Mans, Plant Operations Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/16/2013 3:38:26 PM Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food ...
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The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance future electronics, according to a new study. Chemists at Ohio State University have developed the technology for ...
Citing a lack of data on hydraulic fracturing specific to their state, a team of University of California-Berkeley researchers this week released a report calling for better tracking of frack jobs and handling of fracking wastewater. In a ...
In booth 1601 at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) exhibition in Anaheim (19-21 March), NeoPhotonics Corp of San Jose, CA, a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of both indium phosphide (InP) and silica-on-silicon photonic ...
Tags: NeoPhotonics, Optical Fiber Communication, silicon photonic
The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) honoured scientists from Evonik’s Personal Care Business Line with the Shaw Mudge Award for best paper presented at SCC‘s annual scientific meeting and technology showcase. ...
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Prof Leonid Kuzmin and co-authors from the Department of Microtechnology and NanoScience at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden have won the 2011 IEEE Van Duzer prize for the best contributed paper published in IEEE Transactions on ...
Tags: Oxford Instruments, IEEE Transactions, Oxford Instruments equipment