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Medical Engineering

Successful Transcatheter Implant for Diastolic Heart Failure

Diastolic heart failure (DHF) occurs when the heart muscle becomes stiff and doesn't relax enough to allow blood to flow from the lungs into the heart. This…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Desert Solar Powers Sustainable Air Travel for Centuries

Thermochemical solar fuel manufacturing would be an energy industry with a life of centuries, rather than decades. The feedstock of sunlight, carbon dioxide…

Event News

Global Ecologists Unite in Ghent for Annual Conference

1,500 ecologists from around 60 countries gather in Ghent, Belgium next month for the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland's joint* annual…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Computing: Speeding Up Searches in Unsorted Databases

Scrapbooks or social networks are collections of mostly unsorted data. The search for single elements in very large data volumes, i.e. for the needle in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Mixing Waves on Superconducting Qubits: New Quantum Insights

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Royal Holloway, University of London, have demonstrated an effect known as quantum…

Life & Chemistry

Cells: The Hidden Filters of Social Media Updates

Social media have become an indispensable part of our everyday life. We use them constantly to screen the latest news and share pre-selected information. The…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Butterfly Wing Inspires Solar Cells: Boosting Light Absorption

Sunlight reflected by solar cells is lost as unused energy. The wings of the butterfly Pachliopta aristolochiae are drilled by nanostructures (nanoholes) that…

Health & Medicine

High-Speed Video Records Blood Cell Velocity Accurately

Capillaroscopy systems are commonly used either to determine the shape and size of a single capillary or to examine some specific part of a capillary network….

Event News

Biaxial Fatigue Testing: Enhancing Safety for Wheels and Hubs

The wheel-related components of the chassis, i.e. wheels, wheel hubs and wheel bearings, are safety-relevant components subject to high levels of stress. Given…

Life & Chemistry

Transgenic Mosquitoes: A Breakthrough in Self-Destruction

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed transgenic mosquitoes that stably express the Cas9 enzyme in their germline. The addition…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Titan-Aluminum Alloys from Laser Printers

Titan-Aluminum alloys are combining low density, high strength and oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures and are therefore of high technical relevance…

Physics & Astronomy

An acoustic cage for electrons

The ability to trap and control electrons and other quasi-particles for the study of isolated single particles as well as many-body systems in a solid-state…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Digital length gauges by WayCon – extremely accurate and versatile

Waycon length gauges have many versatile applications, as the plungers can be actuated pneumatically or by the measured object. They are suitable for use in…

Health & Medicine

Allergy Amplifier Linked to Asthma Heightens Food Allergies

Almost eight percent of children under three years old and four percent of adults suffer food allergies, which trigger not only discomfiting symptoms like…

Life & Chemistry

New Hope for Sepsis Treatment: Resistin Hormone Discovered

A research team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside has discovered that the human protein resistin could be used to treat sepsis…

Materials Sciences

Fuel Cell X-Ray Study Reveals Impact of Temperature and Moisture

Like a well-tended greenhouse garden, a specialized type of hydrogen fuel cell – which shows promise as a clean, renewable next-generation power source for…

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