- There is a huge unused potential for technology transfer in computing systems in Europe - Researchers often do not consider technology transfer into an existing company as a viable way to commercialize their research - TETRACOM wants to promote and support academia-industry technology transfer...

Striking new observations capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed dust. If enough of this dust makes the perilous transition into interstellar space, it could explain how many galaxies acquired their dusty, dusky appearance. Fuente :...

Striking new observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope capture, for the first time, the remains of a recent supernova brimming with freshly formed dust. If enough of this dust makes the perilous transition into interstellar space, it could explain how many...

A newly discovered system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense pulsar -- all packed within a space smaller than the Earth's orbit around the sun -- is enabling astronomers to probe a range of cosmic mysteries, including the very nature of gravity itself. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/_...

The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study. Physical contact with babies is essential for their physical and psychological development. This lesson has been learned the hard way, as infants...

Scientists have reproduced the conditions inside the magma chamber of a supervolcano to understand what it takes to trigger its explosion. These rare events represent the biggest natural catastrophes on Earth except for the impact of giant meteorites. Using synchrotron X-rays, the scientists established that supervolcano...

Last year’s gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America’s modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, scientists discovered. Fuente : http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/u...

Todo el mundo en la montañosa localidad libia de Jaudu parece conocer la nueva norma. “Los civiles portando armas en lugares públicos serán multados con 500 dinares (unos 400 dólares)”, explica a IPS el residente Younis Walid.  “El reincidente pagará el doble, y a la tercera vas a la...

Die westliche Ernährungsweise hat wohl mehr mit der grassierenden Asthma-Epidemie zu tun als bisher angenommen, denn die Entwicklung von Asthma hängt von der Menge konsumierter Früchte und Gemüse ab. Darmbakterien fermentieren die darin enthaltenen Nahrungsfasern, dadurch gelangen Fettsäuren ins...

The Western diet probably has more to do with the asthma epidemic than has been assumed so far because developing asthma is related to the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed. Gut bacteria ferment the dietary fibres contained in them and fatty acids enter the blood as a result, influencing the...

Le régime alimentaire occidental a probablement plus de responsabilité dans l'actuelle épidémie d'asthme qu'on ne le supposait jusqu'ici. En effet, le développement de l'asthme dépend de la quantité de fruits et de légumes consommés. Les bactéries intestinales fermentent les fibres alimentaires qui...

La controversia sobre la propiedad de la tierra en Kibera, un asentamiento informal de esta capital y uno  de los mayores de su tipo en toda África, podría desembocar en actos de violencia en su población estimada en un millón de personas. Los nubios que viven allí desde hace más de 100 años...

Si el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, concibiera sus perspectivas de política exterior para 2014 como algún popular videojuego infantil, las “serpientes” que tendría que sortear superarían en mucho a las “escaleras” que lo impulsarían al éxito. Como ocurre desde que asumió el cargo,...

Rice pioneers a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that allows researchers to collect real-time, high-resolution data in a system that couples high magnetic fields and low temperature with direct optical access to the magnet's core. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/ru-...

Researchers had known for several decades that a certain chemical modification exists on messenger ribonucleic acid, which is essential to the flow of genetic information. But only recently did experiments at the University of Chicago show that one major function of this modification governs the longevity and decay of RNA, a...

Patients with diabetes who used an online patient portal to refill medications increased their medication adherence and improved their cholesterol levels, according to a new study in the journal Medical Care. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/kp-...

A queen in a paperwasp colony largely stays in the dark. The worker wasps, who fly outside to seek food and building materials, see much more of the world around them. A new Drexel University study indicates that the brain regions involved in sensory perception also develop differently in these castes, according to the...

Common advice to new parents is that the more words babies hear the faster their vocabulary grows. Now new findings show that what spurs early language development isn't so much the quantity of words as the style of speech and social context in which speech occurs. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/uow...

In this paper, the authors show evidence indicating the presence of autocrine/paracrine EPO in the conditioned medium of cultured breast cancer cells and a functional role of an EPO-EPOR autocrine/paracrine loop in regulating tumor cell invasion and migration, and the stem-ness of breast cancer cells. Fuente :...

Inhibitors of both JAK and Src kinases represent promising targets for cancer therapeutics because of the central importance of these kinases in tumor cell proliferation and survival. This research article by Liu et al. describes MLS-2384 which is a synthetic derivative of amarine natural product, 6-bromoindirubin-3-oxime....

The cost of insurance co-payments for cutting-edge pharmaceuticals can vary widely from patient to patient. When the patient's share of prescription costs becomes too high, many patients skip doses or stop taking medication entirely, according to research conducted at the University of North Carolina. Fuente :...

An international team of astronomers, using NASA's Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic alignment allows the gravity of a massive object to bend and amplify light from a more distant source. Fuente :...

A study suggests tubes amd adenoidectomy reduce fluid in the middle ear and improve hearing in the short term, but tubes did not improve speech or language for children with middle ear fluid. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/uon...

As the United States marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty this month, a new report suggests one recent weapon in the battle has been a disappointing failure. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/osu...

Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Huddersfield. The implications are that a key process used to transform the properties of nanoscale materials can cause much greater damage...

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a biomarker, called adenosine deaminase acting on RNA-1 , which has the potential to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Led by Dr Polly Chen from the Cancer Science...

Today's emerging military technologies -- including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet -- raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make...

The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-01/e-t...

When inmates with severe mental illness are released from jail, their priority is finding shelter, food, money and clothes. Even needs as basic as soap and a place to bathe can be hard to come by for people leaving jail, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University's social work...