Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Technical University of Madrid) are involved in the development of a tool that, through crop simulation models, allows them to assess the integrated impact of environmental ...
Other
Nov 19, 2013
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Next year, high-speed rail travel will celebrate its 50th birthday. In 1964, Japan put into service the first Shinkansen line, from Tokyo to Osaka. Its trains initially operated at speeds of up to 210 km/h, much slower than ...
Engineering
Nov 19, 2013
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An international team engineers and biologists has developed a new technique that could lead to improved infection diagnosis for cystic fibrosis patients.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 19, 2013
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The Argonne National Laboratory announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, after a careful reexamination of the relevant prior patents and publications, has confirmed the patentability of U.S. Patent 6,677,082, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 19, 2013
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A method for bioengineering living human ears garnered a first-place award at the World Technology Summit in New York City, Nov. 15.
Engineering
Nov 19, 2013
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A white pine-decimating fungus has mutated, allowing it to infect immune and resistant plants, which is alarming researchers, growers, loggers and forest managers.
Ecology
Nov 19, 2013
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For nearly as long as astronomers have been able to observe asteroids, a question has gone unanswered: Why do the surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than meteorites—the remnants of asteroids that have crashed to Earth?
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2013
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While initial reports from the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., categorized object 2013 US10 as a very large near-Earth asteroid, new observations now indicate that it is, in fact, a long-period comet, and it is now ...
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2013
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Rupert Frank joined the Caltech faculty this spring as a professor of mathematics. Originally from Munich, Germany, Frank graduated from the Ludwig Maximilian University in his hometown in 2003 and his PhD from the Royal ...
Mathematics
Nov 19, 2013
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(Phys.org) —The function of a spur on the hind leg of echidnas has been revealed by research at the University of Sydney.
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2013
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