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Life & Chemistry

Reading Histone Modifications: A New Insight on Oncoproteins

These communications can go awry, resulting in conditions like cancer. Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have uncovered an…

Information Technology

GRACE-FO Mission Launch: Monitoring Ice Loss Effectively

GRACE-FO mission launch on 22 May 2018 at 12:47 p.m. PST

Information Technology

CrowdWater App: Empowering Citizen Science for Flood Research

The CrowdWater project, developed by doctoral candidates from the Department of Geography of the University of Zurich, is a citizen science project in the area…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Found in Early Organisms Aids CO2 Fixation

Life on Earth depends on photosynthetic carbon dioxide (CO2) fixation to form organic carbon. Plants take atmospheric CO2 and transform it into organic…

Architecture & Construction

Understanding Urban Construction Impacts on Communities

Große Baustellen in Innenstädten haben häufig Auswirkungen auf das direkte Umfeld, auf Anwohner, Geschäfte und den Verkehr. Mit diesem Thema hat sich Prof. Dr….

Materials Sciences

New Concept in Structural Colors: Beyond Traditional Pigments

In contrast to conventional pigments, the color effect is not caused by the absorption of certain wavelengths, which are in turn missing from the reflection…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Entanglement Achieved with Ultra-Cold Atomic Clouds

The prestigious journal Science has echoed a novel experiment in the field of quantum physics in which several members of the Quantum Information Theory and…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Technique Uncovers Forest Fire Recovery Insights

Do you know someone who's so caught up in the details of a problem that they “can't see the forest for the trees?”

Power and Electrical Engineering

Controlling Graphene Transistors’ Properties with Pressure

“Graphene is the best electrical conductor that we know of on Earth,” said Matthew Yankowitz, a postdoctoral research scientist in Columbia's physics…

Medical Engineering

XXL Computed Tomography: Transforming X-Ray Analysis in Industry

Computed tomography with X-rays is nowadays playing an important role even outside of medicine. For example, for product development for industrial…

Life & Chemistry

Mistletoe: The Clever Parasite Behind Lifelong Relationships

Now, a team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and at the John Innes Center discovered that the mistletoe’s parasitic…

Studies and Analyses

New Treatment Option for Stroke Patients Revealed by WAKE-UP

Up to 20 per cent of stroke patients wake up in the morning with stroke symptoms. This means that the time when their stroke started is unknown and so they are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Printed In-Situ Perovskite Solar Cells Reduce Waste

Scientists are testing the proof of concept of these new types of solar cells. Very innovative is a new process for fabricating solar cells using sustainable…

Materials Sciences

Saarbrücken mathematicians study the cooling of heavy plate from Dillingen

Therefore mathematical models are required to meet increasing customer requirements and to further automate production. Dillinger is supporting the research…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular Valve Structure: Unlocking New Therapy Possibilities

Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity) in the fluid…

Materials Sciences

Self-Propelling Robots: No Motors or Batteries Needed

Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zurich have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without using any motors, servos, or power supply. Instead, these…

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