Scientists who study past pandemics, such as the 14th century Black Death that devastated much of Europe, might soon be turning to an innovative biological detection technology for some extra help. The apparent first use of this ...
Tags: Ancient Human Remains, Microbial Detection, Array Detects Plague
CRAIC Technologies of San Dimas, CA, USA has introduced the FilmPro film thickness measurement software package, designed to plug in to the firm’s microspectrophotometers and their controlling Lambdafire software to allow measure ...
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A stroll through the produce aisle in your local grocery store exhibits a plethora of vivid colors. From opposing hues, like red apples next to green celery, to subtler variations, such as light to dark purple grapes, every color seems to ...
An international team of researchers have discovered a 'microbial Pompeii' preserved on the teeth of skeletons around 1,000 years old. The key to the discovery is the dental calculus (plaque) which preserves bacteria and microscopic ...
New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could lead to new "quantum technology" for ...
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Edwards Lifesciences has received regulatory approval to sell its third-generation Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic heart valve in Europe. Edwards Lifescience's Sapien 3 could be used in a broader range of patients than earlier TAVR ...
Tags: Sapien, Medtronic', CoreValve
The Brazilian Government would be closely examining the new US farm bill passed recently by the House of Representatives, to see whether it meets with the standards set by the World Trade Organization (WTO), before adopting any retaliatory ...
Tags: US Farm Bill, Textile
With all the buzz around the Internet of Things,it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the electricity grid already operates with millions of connected meters and sensors.Yet writing applications for these programmable machines is too ...
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A common surgery for non-melanoma skin cancer, known as Mohs surgery typically achieves excellent results but can be a long process, as the surgeon successively removes the area of concern until the surrounding tissue is free of cancer. To ...
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(Phys.org) —Oregon State University scientists have discovered how to pinpoint the time and place of underwater volcanic eruptions using satellite images. Volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor can spew large amounts of pumice and ...
Tags: NASA, OSU, Remote Sensing, satellite
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from the U.K. and Germany has found that musicians playing in a string quartet keep time with one another in two distinctly different ways. One, way, the team explains in their paper ...
Tags: tempo, Royal Society, instrument, democratic
Remnants of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans are associated with genes affecting type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease, lupus, biliary cirrhosis and smoking behavior. They also concentrate in genes that influence skin and hair characteristics. ...
Tags: DNA, genetic legacy, Papua New Guinea, Denisovans
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequencing data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows that more than 20 percent of the ...
Tags: DNA, Max Planck Institute, Vernot, Human Genome
KPN, the Netherlands-based telecommunications and ICT services provider, has teamed up with Dyzle, a specialist in analyzing business process data for the cold chain in real-time, to provide an integrated platform, Platform-as-a-Service ...
A team made up of university chemists, art conservationists and research scientists with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., has discovered a new way to reveal three dimensional details of paintings. In their paper published in ...
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