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Power and Electrical Engineering

Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings: Challenges for Southern Europe

Over the coming years there is a legal commitment for all the countries of Europe to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, which boils down to…

Materials Sciences

Unlocking NMR: Enhancing Nanomaterials and Exotic Matter Research

NMR involves applying a strong magnetic field to sample and then zapping it with pulses of radio waves. The magnetic field aligns the magnetic moments, or…

Life & Chemistry

Spider Silk Insights: Unlocking Bone Repair Innovations

Some secrets to repair our skeletons might be found in the silky webs of spiders, according to recent experiments guided by supercomputers. Scientists involved…

Life & Chemistry

Climate Change: Large Herbivores Thriving Amidst Warming

Scientists have generally expected animals to get smaller as the planet warms, as research on the interactions in food webs has focused mainly on the effects…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Milestone in Circular Saw Technology: Enhancing Cutting Precision

When cutting materials, high temperatures occur at the site of the cut that can negatively affect the cut and the workpiece, as well as shortening the tool’s…

Process Engineering

Smart Wheelchairs and Predictive Prostheses Break Barriers

If you use a wheelchair or have a prosthetic leg, small obstacles can become insurmountable barriers. Now, researchers at Fraunhofer IPA have developed a way…

Life & Chemistry

Advancements in Neural Information Encoding for Video Compression

Digital video cameras have the capability to record in incredible detail, but saving all that data would take up a huge amount of space: how can we compress a…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Germ-Fighting Solutions Using Natural Compounds

Due to the widespread use of antibiotics, pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics. Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding How Plants Form Seeds for Our Food Supply

Around 80 to 85 percent of our calorie needs is covered through seeds, either directly as food or indirectly through use as feed. Seeds are the result of plant…

Health & Medicine

Exploring Monocyte-Derived Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy

For more than two decades, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs) have been obtained from patients' blood for immunotherapy to treat various cancers, for…

Physics & Astronomy

World’s Coldest Chip: Pushing Boundaries of Temperature Control

Even scientists like to compete for records, which is why numerous working groups worldwide are using high-tech refrigerators to reach temperatures as close to…

Automotive Engineering

Smart Cars: How Emotion-Recognizing Tech Enhances Driving

From January 9 to 12, the FZI Research Center for Information Technology will present a system for camera-based vital parameter recognition at the…

Materials Sciences

Thermally Activated Delayed Photoluminescence in Nanocrystals

Felix N. Castellano, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair of Chemistry at NC State, had previously shown that semiconductor nanocrystals could transfer…

Materials Sciences

Electrically Pumped Organic Semiconductor Laser Advances Diode Tech

Low-cost organic semiconductor materials belong to four-level laser system that facilitates the realizing of population inversion. Organic lasers are…

Earth Sciences

Researchers Discover New Insights Into Earth’s Core

In order to more fully comprehend the complexities of Earth's interior, humanity has to dig deep–literally. To date, scientists have been able to bore a…

Health & Medicine

Nanotubes Flow Into Brain Tissue for Advanced Research

Rice University researchers have invented a device that uses fast-moving fluids to insert flexible, conductive carbon nanotube fibers into the brain, where…

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