Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding seven hazardous waste sites that pose risks to people's health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA is also proposing to add another ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated gallium nitride (GaN) vertical Schottky and p-n diodes on silicon Si substrates “for the first time” [Yuhao Zhang et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, published online ...
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Scientists at US Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) are developing a new modeling tool to optimize agricultural production. The new platform, known as the Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop ...
UNSW Australia researchers have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabricate integrated circuits and screen biological molecules. The novel ...
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Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has claimed the highest optical 3dB modulation bandwidth of ~463MHz at 50mA for a 500nm-wavelength blue-green indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LED [Chien-Lan Liao et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, ...
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Semprius Inc of Durham, NC, USA, which designs and makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) solar modules, has manufactured the first four-junction, four-terminal stacked solar cell using its proprietary micro transfer printing process ...
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Diets high in fibre, especially cereal fibre, may help heart attack survivors live longer People who survive heart attacks have a greater chance of living longer if they increase their dietary intake of fibre – with cereal fibres ...
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Increasing coffee consumption may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes Increasing coffee consumption by an average one-and-a-half cups per day (approximately 360mL) over a four-year period is associated with an 11 per cent ...
Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
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Sorin's just-approved Mitroflow valve (Courtesy Sorin Group) Italy's Sorin Group has announced that FDA has given its approval to the latest iteration of the company's Sorin Mitroflow aortic pericardial heart valve. This newest version ...
George Washington University's Micro-Propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory researchers have constructed an ultracapacitor from a synthesised compound of grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar ...
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Eating one serve a day of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils may significantly reduce "bad" cholesterol, and therefore the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study from St Michael's Hospital in Canada. However, most people in ...
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US consumers prefer restaurants that have nutrition information and "healthful" options US consumers were more likely to frequent restaurants that provided both 'healthful' foods and nutrition information, according to research from Penn ...
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Reduction in salt intake likely cause of lower death rates from heart disease in England The 15 per cent fall in dietary salt intake over the past decade in England is likely to have had a key role in the 40 per cent drop in deaths from ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have produced indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors (MOSCAPs) with low interface trap densities directly on silicon [Yueh-Chin Lin etal, Appl. Phys. Express, vol7, p041202, 2014]. InGaAs ...