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Health & Medicine

Advancements in Cell-Based Therapies: New Separation Methods

Advances reported in this issue include methods of cell separation that utilize unique microscale forces for use with higher cell concentrations or larger…

Science Education

Hippocampus Maturation Patterns and Their Impact on Memory

Parents know one of the paradoxes of human development well: Toddlers seem to acquire knowledge about their world effortlessly, but at the same time they often…

Life & Chemistry

O2 Stable Hydrogenases: Advancing Clean Energy Solutions

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and the MPI für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr have succeeded in…

Studies and Analyses

Detecting Damage in Non-Magnetic Steel Using Magnetism

Steel is one of the most frequently used materials. It is used in many variants, for example as stainless steel, high-strength quenched and tempered steel or…

Health & Medicine

FAU researchers identify Parkinson's disease as a possible autoimmune disease

Currently, approximately 4.1 million people suffer from Parkinson’s disease throughout the globe, in Germany alone more than 300,000 people are affected….

Information Technology

Quantum Computers: Mastering Cause and Effect Reversal

Watch a movie backwards and you'll likely get confused – but a quantum computer wouldn't. That's the conclusion of researcher Mile Gu at the Centre for Quantum…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smart Safe Zinc Ion Battery: Innovations in Sol-Gel Electrolytes

Reversible sol-gel transition hydrogels have received abundant research interests owing to their smart responsibility to ambient temperature. They are normally…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Printed Electronics: Purdue’s Cost-Effective Innovation Unveiled

The low-cost process, developed by Purdue University researchers, combines tools already used in industry for manufacturing metals on a large scale, but uses…

Physics & Astronomy

New Model Reveals Energy Release in Metallic Glass Fracturing

Metallic glasses — alloys lacking the crystalline structure normally found in metals — are an exciting research target for tantalizing applications,…

Materials Sciences

Princeton-UPenn Team Uncovers Physics Insights in Wallpaper Patterns

“The beauty of topology is that one can apply symmetry principles to find and categorize materials,” said B. Andrei Bernevig, a professor of physics at…

Materials Sciences

Breaking Boundaries: Argonne’s Advances in Neutron Scattering

Using state-of-the art neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering, Argonne scientists and their collaborators are helping to answer long-held questions about a…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Weight Issues: Genes or Lifestyle Factors?

Overweight and obesity have become a global health problem. According to the World Health Organization, 39 percent of adults in EU countries have overweight….

Health & Medicine

Nano-Submarines: Targeting Headaches and Tumors Precisely

In modern medicine, patients receiving medication to treat tumors or for pain therapy are often given drugs that disperse throughout the entire body, even…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Search and Rescue Robot Developed at Ben-Gurion University

A new highly maneuverable search and rescue robot that can creep, crawl and climb over rough terrain and through tight spaces has been developed by Ben-Gurion…

Earth Sciences

Global study of world's beaches shows threat to protected areas

Erosion in protected marine areas could threaten plant and animal species and cultural heritage sites. Worldwide, the study found that 24 percent of Earth's…

Materials Sciences

Metal too 'gummy' to cut? Draw on it with a Sharpie or glue stick, science says

What makes inks and adhesives effective isn't their chemical content, but their stickiness to the surface of any gummy metal such as nickel, aluminum,…

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