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Life & Chemistry

Calcium Wave Communication: Enhancing Plant Growth Insights

Based on what we know today, the plant hormone auxin influences all aspects of plant growth and development. It makes corn thrive from germination to harvest,…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Salvage Logging Controversy in Białowieża Forest

Białowieża Forest in Eastern Poland is one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe. For the time being. In 2017, the Polish government had 100,000…

Event News

High-tech implants are the main topic of the COMPAMED Spring Convention

The COMPAMED Spring Convention is the annual expert meeting for developers, producers and users in the field of medical practice. The next event on May 3, 2018…

Trade Fair News

Engineers at Saarland University turn polymer films into self-sensing high-tech actuators

The engineering team from Saarland University is in Hannover to look for industrial partners interested in developing the new technology.

Health & Medicine

Brain's tiniest blood vessels trigger spinal motor neurons to develop

A new study has revealed that the human brain's tiniest blood vessels can activate genes known to trigger spinal motor neurons, prompting the neurons to grow…

Earth Sciences

Germany was covered by glaciers 450,000 years ago

The timing of the Middle Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles and the feedback mechanisms between climatic shifts and earth-surface processes are still…

Medical Engineering

Diagnosing breast cancer using red light

Optical Mammography, or OM, which uses harmless red or infrared light, has been developed for use in conjunction with X-rays for diagnosis or monitoring in…

Physics & Astronomy

Decades of research identify source of galaxy-sized stream of gas

With colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute and other institutions, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison used the Hubble Space…

Earth Sciences

Team discovers a significant role for nitrate in the Arctic landscape

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that plants in northern Alaska's tussock tundra took up nitrate at comparable…

Earth Sciences

Laser-based sensing system can detect methane leaks from miles away

A new field instrument developed by a collaborative team of CU Boulder researchers can detect and quantify methane leaks as tiny as one-quarter of a human…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Extent Hits Second Lowest on Record

On March 17, the Arctic sea ice cover peaked at 5.59 million square miles (14.48 million square kilometers), making it the second lowest maximum on record, at…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Accelerates Drug Development Through Atomic Structure Analysis

One of the key steps in developing new drugs is determining the atomic structure of its biologically active substances. This generally involves performing…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Competence Center for Batteries and Storage Systems Established

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institute, EMI and the Association of…

Trade Fair News

Forwards, backwards, faster, slower… Smart conveyor rollers help optimize parcel logistics

The new technology can be used to provide a cost-effective means of speeding up parcel sorting operations and can deliver greater flexibility wherever conveyor…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Communication Strategy in Stem Cell Pathway Boosts Plant Growth

This is the first such multi-functional receptor found to work in this way to control plant development. The new findings obtained by CSHL Professor David…

Materials Sciences

Transform Functionalized Graphene Into Graphite Pellets Easily

It's easy and economical to make shiny pellets of graphite from functionalized graphene, according to scientists at Rice University.

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