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Illinois Study: City Tweeting Trends Show Surprising Insights

They identified that while there are less people tweeting, there are a group of people who tweet prolifically. This suggests there is a concentrated core of…

Health & Medicine

Cancer’s Common Origins: Insights from Kidney to Stomach

Recent research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis demonstrated that mature cells in the stomach sometimes revert back to behaving like…

Earth Sciences

World's first solar fuels reactor for night passes test

International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen…

Physics & Astronomy

Roadmap to Boost Radioresistance for Space Colonization

An international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Influenza Defense Strategies Unveiled

Time and again – the flu is coming to Germany. The number of cases of the current wave of influenza is still rising. When influenza viruses – the cause of the…

Life & Chemistry

Ants’ Risk-Averse Care for Sick Nest Mates Explained

Ants care for their sick nest mates in different ways, depending on their own immune status. When they themselves are susceptible to dangerous superinfections,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer ISE Boosts Solar Thermal Power in MENA Region

»Current projects in the region show that CSP can play out its strengths of flexibility and storage options in countries with a high percentage of direct…

Trade Fair News

Explore Versatile OLED Lighting Designs in One Simple Kit

Up to now, OLED lighting modules have mainly been the familiar white OLED tiles for general-purpose lighting. However, automobile designers are increasingly…

Medical Engineering

New MRI Technique Distinguishes Benign Breast Lesions

Breast MRI currently is used to screen women at high risk of breast cancer and as a diagnostic adjunct to mammography. The examination relies on…

Life & Chemistry

'Lipid asymmetry' plays key role in activating immune cells

A cell's membrane is its natural barrier between the inside of a cell and the outside world — composed of a double layer (bilayer) of lipids (such as fats,…

Life & Chemistry

New Printing Technique Mimics Biological Structures with Cells

These structures are embedded in an ink which is similar to their native environment and opens the possibility to make them behave as they would in the body.

Physics & Astronomy

Controlling Quantum States of Single Atoms: Key Discovery

Their findings, published in the journal Science Advances, show that the loss in quantum state superposition is mainly caused by nearby electrons that the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Tech Charges Lithium-Ion Batteries Five Times Faster

The new technology works in-situ during a battery's normal operation without impeding its performance and it has been tested on standard commercially available…

Materials Sciences

Harnessing Heat: Turning Pencil and Paper Into Power

Tiny effect

Life & Chemistry

In living color: Brightly-colored bacteria could be used to 'grow' paints and coatings

The study is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Dutch company Hoekmine BV and shows how genetics can change the colour, and appearance, of…

Life & Chemistry

Computers Discover New, Affordable Material for High-Quality LEDs

Phosphors, which are substances that emit light, are one of the key ingredients to make white LEDs. They are crystalline powders that absorb energy from blue…

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