The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHSTA) will soon propose rules for vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications on U.S. roads, it announced yesterday. The agency is now finalizing a report on a 2012 trial with almost 3000 ...
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Chi-Huey Wong,professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute(TSRI),has won the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering contributions to the synthesis of compounds vitally important to biology and medicine. Sometimes ...
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In the past half century, power plants in the United States have made considerable strides in water use, but there is still a long way to go, according to new figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). More than 70 ...
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)have developed a new technology to create transparent displays.According to them,it has a number of advantages:wide viewing angles,ease of production,low cost and high scalability. ...
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From bacteria to plants to humans,all organisms have mechanisms that they use to repair DNA damaged by ultraviolet(UV)light.This fundamental maintenance function is critical to our health because damaged DNA can lead to diseases such as ...
It's an annoyance for the individual computer user:You've updated your operating system,and now you need to reboot.This is so the computer can switch to the modified source code. Imagine,however,having to update and reboot hundreds or ...
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Researchers in the biomedical engineering department at Case Western Reserve University have found that epileptic activity can spread through a part of the brain in a new way,suggesting a possible novel target for seizure-blocking ...
The Worldwide Innovative Network(WIN)Consortium in personalized cancer medicine is proud to announce that AstraZeneca,DKFZ and EORTC have joined the Consortium.WIN is a unique global network of leading academics,industries,payors and ...
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BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent Office for its ‘Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of CNS Diseases’ (serial number 12/994,761) patent application. This patent relates to ...
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The use of portable,wireless cameras and monitoring equipment for recording and transmitting footage of wildlife is perhaps familiar to anyone who watches nature programs on TV.However,common to all such equipment is the problem of limited ...
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The Annals of the American Thoracic Society has released a comprehensive supplement on the 56th annual Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference entitled "The Lung Microbiome: A New Frontier in Pulmonary Medicine." More than 170 ...
Produce for health marks vegetable, fruit improvement center's 20th year People interested in healthy foods are invited to a day-long conference Feb. 25 in College Station to hear the latest findings on connections between fruit and ...
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Eliminating grazing won't reduce the impact of climate change on rangeland, according to nearly 30 scientists in the western United States. The researchers, who work for nine universities and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, made this ...
CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Doctors spend about a third of their visits looking at a computer screen and as a result their communication with patients suffers, U.S. researchers say. First author Enid Montague, an assistant professor at ...
In 1984, with only $25,000 in Chinese government funding and a dusty 20-square-metre bungalow as their headquarters, a small group of scientists in Beijing founded a firm called New Technology Developer Inc. Thirty years later, the tech ...
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