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Scientists find oxidized iron deep within the Earth's interior

Scientists digging deep into the Earth's mantle recently made an unexpected discovery.

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Booming medical technology market attracts international exhibitors to the MD&M West in California

The MD&M West in Anaheim is the largest exhibition for medical design and manufacturing in the US. Visitors mainly include developers and decision-makers from…

Health & Medicine

Eye Movement Influences Eardrum Motion, Duke Study Finds

Simply moving the eyes triggers the eardrums to move too, says a new study by Duke University neuroscientists.

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Adjust Tamm Plasmon Wavelength for New Insights

School physics teaches that the basis of an ordinary mirror is a thin aluminum or silver foil. Glass, which is in fact a large transparent piece of ordinary…

Life & Chemistry

Discover Enzyme’s Dual Role in Ceramide Formation

Ceramide synthases link fatty acids with certain amino acids to form so-called ceramides. These take on a number of vital functions in the organism. Their…

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Innovative Coating Process for Flexible Materials Unveiled

Wearables, arched displays and buildings facades increasingly require bendable, flexible surfaces with taylored functionality and properties. These coating…

Health & Medicine

Deaf Children Learn Words Faster Than Hearing Peers

For many years scientists tinkered to find a perfect replacement for the damaged or dysplastic inner ear. Cochlear implants receive a sound, convert it into…

Life & Chemistry

Flexibility and arrangement – the interaction of ribonucleic acid and water

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) represents an elementary constituent of biological cells. While deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) serves as the carrier of genetic…

Business and Finance

Container Throughput Index: Strong Close for 2017

The Container Throughput Index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the ISL – Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics was able to…

Life & Chemistry

Rutgers scientists discover 'Legos of life'

Rutgers scientists have found the “Legos of life” – four core chemical structures that can be stacked together to build the myriad proteins inside every…

Earth Sciences

Seabed Mining Risks: New Study Warns of Ecosystem Damage

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep-sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world. The deep sea…

Physics & Astronomy

Transportable Laser Technology by PTB: A New Milestone in Precision

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is known for providing time e.g. for radio-controlled clocks. For this purpose, it operates some of the best…

Physics & Astronomy

Unified Origins of Extreme-Energy Space Particles Explained

New model connects the origins of very high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and high-energy gamma rays with black-hole jets embedded in their…

Earth Sciences

How climate change weakens coral 'immune systems'

If this winter finds you stressed out and fighting a sinus infection, then you know something of what coral will endure in the face of climate change.

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Discovery Keeps Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells Dormant

The time needed for breast cancer metastases (secondary lesions caused by cells that have escaped from the original tumour) to develop varies between patients,…

Earth Sciences

Microbes Thrive in Phosphorus-Deficient Tropical Soil

Phosphorus is a critical nutrient for global biological processes, such as collecting the sun's energy during photosynthesis and degrading plant debris and…

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