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Power and Electrical Engineering

Targeted Inspection Enhances Power Plant Component Stability

This enables operators and monitoring institutions to calculate the stability of components in terms of their damage more accurately and without compromising…

Information Technology

Nanotech Sensor Converts Molecular Fingerprints to Barcodes

However, scientists at EPFL's School of Engineering and at Australian National University (ANU) have developed a compact and sensitive nanophotonic system that…

Information Technology

Create Real-Time 3D Hand Models Using Just a Webcam

If the computer scientist Franziska Müller holds her hand in front of the laptop camera, the hand's virtual counterpart appears on the screen. Immediately this…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Newborn Neurons in Adult Brains

Even in adult brains, new neurons are generated throughout a lifetime. In a publication in the scientific journal PNAS, a research group led by Goethe…

Life & Chemistry

Breaking through a tumor's defenses

Researchers identify the dominant immune cells contributing to tumour tolerance by the immune system
Silencing the tumour-shielding cells of the immune system…

Physics & Astronomy

Understanding Solar Prominences: Vibrations of the Sun’s Plasma

When we look at the surface of the Sun the solar prominences are seen as dark filaments that populate the disk or as a blaze of plasma above it. Solar…

Physics & Astronomy

New Earth-Sized Planets Discovered by NASA’s K2 Mission

The information about these new exoplanets has been obtained from the data collected by the K2 mission of NASA's Kepler satellite, which started in November…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Limits of the Periodic Table: MSU Insights

As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table's limits…

Life & Chemistry

Defense against viruses or autoimmune disorder? When the phosphate decides …

Restriction factors inhibit viral infection and proliferation (replication) in body cells. SAMHD1 (sterile alpha motif and histidine-aspartate…

Life & Chemistry

Individual “Names” Reveal Complex Relationships in Male Bottlenose Dolphins

Dolphins are intelligent creatures that communicate with high-frequency whistles and are capable of forming strong relationships. Within their population, male…

Event News

2nd International Baltic Earth Conference in Denmark: “The Baltic Sea region in Transition”

The goal of Baltic Earth (www.baltic.earth) is to improve our understanding of the Earth system of the Baltic Sea region, encompassing processes in the…

Life & Chemistry

Nerve Cell Maps: New Model by Freiburg Researchers

Dr. Thomas Hainmüller and Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Freiburg have established a new model to explain how the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Data-Mining Technique Unveils Mars’ Mineralogy Secrets

A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison and including Bob Hazen have revealed the mineralogy of Mars at an unprecedented scale, which will help…

Health & Medicine

Targeting Strategy Enhances Cancer Drug Delivery Systems

Many labs around the world are developing nanoparticle-based, drug delivery systems to selectively target tumors. They rely on a key-and-lock system in which…

Materials Sciences

New Transparent Conductive Films Boost Flexible Screen Tech

Researchers have demonstrated large-scale fabrication of a new type of transparent conductive electrode film based on nanopatterned silver. Smartphone touch…

Physics & Astronomy

New Laser Technology Mimics Hound’s Sense of Smell

Applications for the new device lie not just in environmental monitoring and detecting industrial contamination, but may eventually be used to diagnose disease…

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