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Novel Method Detects Antibiotic Resistance Quickly

Respiratory, urinary tract, wound infections, and sepsis: the list of sites in which severe and life-threatening diseases manifest as a result of multidrug…

Life & Chemistry

Medical Care for Wounded Ants: A Study on Matabele Ants

The African Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) tend to the wounds of their injured comrades. And they do so rather successfully: Without such attendance, 80…

Earth Sciences

Urban Heat Waves: Arid Cities Face Severe Future Risks

Using a global climate model, a team led by Princeton University researchers measured how severely heat waves interact with urban heat islands, now and in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Energy-Saving LED Train Headlights Transform Rail Travel

Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Microbial Adaptations in Confined Aquatic Spaces

Microbes can be found in a variety of habitats and ecosystems, where they have almost perfectly adapted to their natural environment. In particular,…

Life & Chemistry

Neutron Study Uncovers Enzyme Targets for Aggressive Cancers

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron macromolecular crystallography to investigate the different…

Materials Sciences

New Sustainable Method Advances Plastics and Pharmaceuticals

Led by Hal Alper, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, the team's new method involves engineering…

Event News

Aachen DC Grid Summit 2018: Key Innovations Unveiled

ADCGS will be held on April 19 and 20, 2018, at Tivoli Business & Events in Aachen. Both conference days will feature exciting, practice-oriented presentations…

Materials Sciences

Hybrid Optics: Ultrathin Metalenses for Color Imaging

But today's glass-based lenses are bulky and resist miniaturization. Next-generation technologies, such as ultrathin cameras or tiny microscopes, require…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Microjet Generator: Ejecting Highly Viscous Fluids Effortlessly

Liquid jet is utilized in various key technologies such as inkjet printing. However, most methods can eject only low viscosity liquid, which is almost the same…

Life & Chemistry

Body Size and Extinction Risk: Key Insights Unveiled

Models for extinction risk are necessarily simple. Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring New Models of the Rosette Nebula’s Heart

The Rosette Nebula is located in the Milky Way Galaxy roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth and is known for its rose-like shape and distinctive hole at its…

Life & Chemistry

Beewolves: Nature’s 68 Million-Year-Old Antibiotic Strategy

The discovery of penicillin about 90 years ago and the widespread introduction of antibiotics to combat infectious diseases have revolutionized human medicine….

Physics & Astronomy

European XFEL Launches Second X-Ray Light Source for Research

SASE3 will serve two experiment stations scheduled to begin user operation at the end of the year. Since the start of operation in September 2017, 340…

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Life & Chemistry

Amazon Molly: The All-Female Fish That Asexually Reproduces

Species that produce asexually are rare among vertebrates, making the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) the big exception. The small fish species, who is native…

Health & Medicine

New Strategy Targets Deadly Nerve Sheath Tumors

Genomic profiling of mostly untreatable and deadly nerve sheath tumors led scientists to test a possible therapeutic strategy that inhibited tumor growth in…

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