During electron-impact ionization (EII), high-energy electrons collide with atoms, knocking away one or more of their outer electrons. To calculate the probability that ionization will occur during these impacts, researchers ...
Sexual violence against men by women is growing in areas such as social media, but is not receiving the level of attention as violence against women by men.
"We wanted to investigate how second pillar pension funds react to financial crises and how to protect them from the crises," says Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) professor Dr. Audrius Kabašinskas, who, together with ...
The constant rise in temperatures and increasing frequency of extreme weather events, especially rainstorms, requires Brazilian towns and cities to develop contingency plans that include efficient monitoring, rapid response, ...
With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture sustainability, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, Ph.D., and his colleagues in ...
Before a cell commits fully to the process of dividing itself into two new cells, it may ensure the appropriateness of its commitment by staying for many hours—sometimes more than a day—in a reversible intermediate state, ...
The property market is a competitive space where finding a nice home, in the area you want and at a price you can afford, is a hard thing to do.
One of the things I often hear as an emotions researcher is that emotions should not "cloud" people's decisions, that they get in the way, or that they are irrational.
An international joint research team led by the Photonic Network Laboratory of Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has demonstrated a record-breaking aggregate optical transmission ...
Lichen, which people may think of as a single organism, is in fact a community of several species that depend on each other for survival. Lichen symbiosis includes at least one fungus and one alga, along with other fungi ...
