In the global nuclear power market, China has the most extensive plans for nuclear development.
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Researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. In patient-derived stem cells carrying a mutation predisposing them to frontotemporal dementia, which accounts for about half of dementia cases before the age of 60, the scientists found a target-able defect that prevents normal neurodevelopment. These stem cells partially return to normal when the defect is corrected.
Lindsey Vonn. Derrick Rose. Tom Brady and Mickey Mantle are all known in different sports but they shared a common problem: They have all fallen victim to the dreaded pop of the knee.
Looking for life on other planets is not straightforward. It relies on chemical detection which might be limited or even completely irrelevant to alien biology. A new study says motion is the way to go because motion is a trait of all life, and can be used to identify microorganisms without any need of chemical foreknowledge.
In the race to design a universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center could play a big role. Nitrogen vacancy centers consist of a nitrogen atom and a vacant site that together replace two adjacent carbon atoms in diamond crystal. The defects can record or store quantum information and transmit it in the form of light, but the weak signal is hard to identify, extract and transmit unless it is intensified.
Millions of Twitter users are constantly reporting where they are and what they are doing. With this information, two Spanish computer science experts suggest using geolocalized tweets for urban planning and land use. They have already done it in Manhattan, Madrid and London and have been able to identify, for example, nightlife areas of these large cities.
Scientists have created primordial germ cells - cells that will go on to become egg and sperm - using human embryonic stem cells. Although this had already been done using rodent stem cells, the study, published today in the journal Cell, is the first time this has been achieved efficiently using human stem cells.
When it comes to engineering single-layer atomic structures, "minding the gap" will help researchers create artificial electronic materials one atomic layer at a time, according to a team of materials scientists.
The gap is a miniscule vacuum that researchers in Penn State's Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials believe is an energy barrier keeping electrons from easily crossing from one layer of material to the next.
Scientists have discovered the oldest recorded stone tool ever to be found in Turkey, revealing that humans passed through the gateway from Asia to Europe much earlier than previously thought, approximately 1.2 million years ago.
According to research published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, the chance find of a humanly-worked quartzite flake, in ancient deposits of the river Gediz, in western Turkey, provides a major new insight into when and how early humans dispersed out of Africa and Asia.
Researchers have developed a safe and effective skin patch to deliver a drug that enhances the healing of diabetes-related ulcers. The patch, which they tested in mice, may also serve as a way to prevent ulcer formation.
A new study reports on a hypothetical methodology to solve "the counting problem," which is key to understanding how proteins group and perform their vital functions within the human body.
A new analysis suggests that women who use bisphosphonates (medications commonly used to treat osteoporosis and other bone conditions) have about half the risk of developing endometrial cancer as women who do not use the drugs. The study supports other research that has shown an anti-cancer effect of this type of medication.
The lithium-ion batteries that mobilize our electronic devices need to be improved if they are to power electric vehicles orstore electrical energy for the grid. Berkeley Lab researchers looking for a better understanding of liquid electrolyte may have found a pathway forward.
It's like a scene from a gamer's wildest dreams: 12 high-definition, 55-inch 3D televisions all connected to a computer capable of supporting high-end, graphics-intensive gaming.
On the massive screen, images are controlled by a Wii remote that interacts with a Kinnect-like Bluetooth device (called SmartTrack), while 3D glasses worn by the user create dizzying added dimensions.
But this real-life, computer-powered mega TV is not for gaming. It's for engineering.
Researchers from the University of Southampton have revealed a breakthrough in optical fibre communications.
Academics from the University's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have collaborated with colleagues at Eblana Photonics Inc, in Ireland, to develop an approach that enables direct modulation of laser currents to be used to generate highly advanced modulation format signals.