Bumps on surfaces, doorsteps or kerbs and the unsuitability of roads, pathways and buildings cause problems for wheelchair users. Wheelchair users can now use technology developed at the University of Twente to map out safe ...
Software
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Nanotechnologists at the UT research institute MESA+ are now able to create materials in which they can influence and precisely control the orientation of the magnetism at will. An interlayer just 0.4 nanometres thick is ...
Nanophysics
Mar 8, 2016
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University of Queensland analysis of the costs associated with delivering Galilee Basin coal to India has called into question the project's long-term viability.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 8, 2016
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Being cut off from electricity doesn't just affect whether we can make a phone call or heat dinner; it affects a doctor's ability to perform surgery, a police officer's ability to respond to a 911 call, and a city's ability ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 8, 2016
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Bacterially speaking, it gets very crowded in the human gut, with trillions of cells jostling for a position to carry out a host of specialized and often crucial tasks. A new Yale study, published the week of March 7 in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2016
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Researchers from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, have documented 60 species of butterflies in Kuala Lumpur city parks. They found that wild areas within parks are particularly popular with butterflies and should be maximized ...
Ecology
Mar 8, 2016
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Humans have triggered the last 16 record-breaking hot years experienced on Earth (up to 2014), with the new research tracing our impact on the global climate as far back as 1937.
Environment
Mar 8, 2016
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Knowledge of how DNA folds and bends could offer new perspective on how it is handled within cells while also aiding in the design of DNA-based nano-scale devices, says a biomedical engineer at Texas A&M University whose ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 8, 2016
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The amount of data transferred over mobile networks is soaring. In five to seven years, the bandwidth and speed of the new 5G networks will be up to 200 times faster than today – so fast that the notion of speed loses its ...
Telecom
Mar 8, 2016
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Mercury levels in Ontario fish are on the rise and if that trend continues it will have considerable health and economic consequences for Ontario in the coming decades, says a new University of Toronto study.
Environment
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