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Life & Chemistry

New Research at Jacobs University Enhances Enzyme Efficiency

Enzymes enable important (industrial) chemical transformations under very mild conditions. Companies need fewer organic solvents and hazardous chemicals, and…

Physics & Astronomy

Light Innovation: Boosting Efficiency with Spinning Electrons

Efficiency from spinning electrons

Architecture & Construction

Kaiserslautern Architects Create Wooden Dome Using Software

People have been using wood for constructing buildings material for thousands of years. While the material has tended to fall behind in recent years, demand…

Materials Sciences

World's first passive anti-frosting surface fights ice with ice

Nothing foretells the coming of winter like frost on windshields.

Materials Sciences

A novel approach of improving battery performance

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hyun-Wook Lee in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with the Agency for…

Life & Chemistry

Novel carbon source sustains deep-sea microorganism communities

The biological carbon pump is a cyclical process by which inorganic carbon from the atmosphere is fixed by marine lifeforms and transported through ocean…

Physics & Astronomy

The surprising environment of an enigmatic neutron star

“This particular neutron star belongs to a group of seven nearby X-ray pulsars–nicknamed 'the Magnificent Seven'–that are hotter than they ought to be…

Life & Chemistry

New insights into DNA phase separation

A new study by Professor Hajin Kim in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST presents the notion of “DNA Phase Separation”, which suggests that the DNA within…

Information Technology

Scientists use artificial neural networks to predict new stable materials

“Predicting the stability of materials is a central problem in materials science, physics and chemistry,” said senior author Shyue Ping Ong, a nanoengineering…

Health & Medicine

The FiTS app now offering cooking videos as it expands its concept for long-term behavior modification

Original recipe ideas that make a healthy lifestyle fun

Health & Medicine

The microbiota in the intestines fuels tumour growth

“With our study we originally wanted to study the role of bacteria in the intestines in the development of intestinal inflammation,” explains Professor Dirk…

Earth Sciences

Searching for clues on extreme climate change

The remains of a buried pine forest at the foot of Mont Saint Genis in Southern France yield insightful information on a drastic climate change event. The pine…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Patented nanostructure for solar cells: Rough optics, smooth surface

“It is not enough simply to bring more light into the cell,” says Christiane Becker. Such surface structures can even ultimately reduce the efficiency by…

Physics & Astronomy

'Optical rocket' created with intense laser light

In a recent experiment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, plasma electrons in the paths of intense laser light pulses were almost instantly accelerated…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA-funded ELFIN to study how electrons get lost

A new CubeSat mission called The Electron Losses and Fields Investigation, or ELFIN, will study one of the processes that allows energetic electrons to escape…

Life & Chemistry

CAR T cells generated in vivo

Cancer cells often escape the immune system unrecognized. A new form of cancer therapy aims at tackling this by retargeting immune cells against the cancer…

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