Mice, and now touchscreens, have become a daily part of our lives in the way we interact with computers. But what about people who lack the ability to use a mouse or touchscreen? Or situations where these would be impractical ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
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Named EVA, a new electric taxi is built by TUM CREATE, a collaboration between Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) and one of Europe's top universities, Germany's Technische Universität München (TUM). The project ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 24, 2015
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Research to identify the optimum steel for modern railways – combining the highest safety standards and reduced whole life costs – is being headed by experts at the University of Huddersfield. It is a key element in ...
Engineering
Apr 24, 2015
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A team at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC - CNRS/Université de Strasbourg/Inserm) has evidenced, at the atomic scale, the three-dimensional structure of the complete human ribosome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2015
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For decades scientists have been looking closely at how our cells make proteins. But the inverse is equally important: how cells kill them.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2015
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Once upon a time, scientists thought RNA polymerase—the molecule that kicks off protein synthesis by transcribing DNA into RNA—worked like a wind-up toy: Set it down at a start site in our DNA and it would whir steadily ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 24, 2015
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The 'stiff-legged' walk of a motor protein along a tightrope-like filament has been captured for the first time.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 24, 2015
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Indian software giant Infosys Technologies saw its shares dip nearly seven percent Friday after it reported a single digit rise in yearly revenues and also missed quarterly profit estimates.
Business
Apr 24, 2015
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Millions of people work abroad as maids, construction workers and other low-wage laborers. The money they send back home is essential to their families, helping them start businesses, send children to school and buy homes.
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2015
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Sophie Nedelec and colleagues studied sounds from coral reefs in the Gambier Archipelago, French Polynesia.
Environment
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