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New Machine-Learning Method Predicts Molecular Behavior

“By identifying patterns in molecular behavior, the learning algorithm or 'machine' we created builds a knowledge base about atomic interactions within a…

Health & Medicine

Protein Discovery Boosts Body Fat Burning for Heat Generation

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have identified a protein that holds promise as a target for therapies…

Physics & Astronomy

Columbia Team Observes Exotic Quantum Particle in Graphene

A team led by Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at Columbia University, and James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Use IAC Tool to Uncover Cosmic Ray Origins

In November 1572 a supernova explosion was observed in the direction of the constellation of Cassiopeia, and its most famous observer was Tycho Brahe, one of…

Physics & Astronomy

Zero-Index Waveguide Innovates On-Chip Metamaterials

In 2015, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed the first on-chip metamaterial with a…

Physics & Astronomy

New Photodetector Prototype Doubles Efficiency Using Inorganic Tech

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have developed a photodetector – a device that senses light – by combining two distinct inorganic…

Event News

World Health Summit 2017: Shaping the Future of Global Health

Speakers will include several Ministers, Nobel Prize laureates, a Princess, and CEOs from the Private Sector and Civil Society.

Event News

Climate Engineering Conference 2017: Pathways to Paris Goals

The international community has set itself ambitious climate goals in the Paris Agreement. But how can those goals be achieved? The Intergovernmental Panel on…

Life & Chemistry

Breeding Salt-Tolerant Plants to Combat Soil Salination

Soil erosion is considered as a problem that puts the nutrition of the human population at jeopardy. One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in…

Information Technology

RUDN University Models Future 5G Mobile Communication Systems

5G refers to the newest, fifth generation of mobile communication technologies, international standards of which are yet under development and scheduled for…

Health & Medicine

A 'turbo charge' for your brain?

Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the “alarm bell of the brain.”

Life & Chemistry

Nerve cells' gatekeepers take many forms

The ability to track the movements of single molecules has revealed how proteins on the surface of nerve cells control gates that turn chemical signals into…

Physics & Astronomy

Accelerating Electrons: Surfing on Laser Beams

The fundamental idea behind the miniature particle accelerator’s development is to enable scientists to use laser beams to accelerate electrons. What sounds…

Earth Sciences

How Coal Formation Nearly Triggered a Global Snowball Effect

“It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major factor for dangerous global warming once almost lead to global glaciation,” says author Georg…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Linear Response Functions in Neural Circuit Models

Tim Herfurth and Tatjana Tchumatchenko from the Theory of Neural Dynamics Group (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) now dive into the wide variety of…

Information Technology

Columbia Engineers Develop Advanced Millimeter-Wave Circulator IC

Columbia Engineering researchers, led by Harish Krishnaswamy, associate professor of electrical engineering, in collaboration with Professor Andrea Alu's group…

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