Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus causes serious inflammation of the brain in people and fertility problems in pigs. Mosquitoes were previously the only known transmission route. However, the virus can also be spread from ...
Plants & Animals
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During the late 18th century, Charles Messier began to notice that a series of "nebulous" objects in the night sky that he originally mistook for comets. In time, he would notice that they were in fact something significantly ...
Astronomy
Feb 23, 2016
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Epson has today announced the third generation of its Moverio smart glasses for Augmented Reality. On display at the Mobile World Congress starting today in Barcelona, Spain, and available in selected markets from later ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 23, 2016
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When you dream of state-of-the-art, real-time Internet of Things (IoT), what do you imagine? Do you imagine open and distributed systems where system components and subsystems communicate without physical boundaries to form ...
Telecom
Feb 23, 2016
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Sustainability Management alum James Ossman ('15) approached the program searching for a new toolkit of hard skills. He was looking for a career transition into the private sector, and was interested in working for companies ...
Environment
Feb 23, 2016
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It's no secret that far fewer females enter into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) professions and fields such as engineering struggle to recruit women.
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2016
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The cells of an organism interact not only with each other but with the extracellular matrix that surrounds them. Increasing evidence is unveiling the relevance of this structure—which is secreted by the cells themselves— ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2016
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"That is a ball." "I do believe that is a cone." "Seems like a wonderful book." The voice is mechanical and flat, and anyone offering such banal commentary and sounding so bored would surely bomb in a job interview. But in ...
Robotics
Feb 23, 2016
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More than 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, yet scientists know more about space than about what happens in the ocean.
Robotics
Feb 23, 2016
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Restoring cultural heritage objects is difficult enough, at the same time having to maintain their authenticity, but it becomes even more of a brainteaser when adding environmental concerns to the mix. New materials developed ...
Materials Science
Feb 23, 2016
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