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Life & Chemistry

New Catalyst for Cyanosilylation in Pharmacy Innovation

Cyanosilylation is the addition of cyanogroups – NΞC to silyl groups, which include silicon and another inconstant component called radical, labeled with 'R'…

Earth Sciences

How Volatile Processes Shaped Earth’s Formation

Based on observations of newly-forming stars, scientists know that the solar system began as a disc of dust and gas surrounding the centrally-growing sun. The…

Physics & Astronomy

Mapping Black Hole Collisions: New Insights for Astronomers

Rochester Institute of Technology researchers helped pinpoint the precise location of a gravitational wave signal — and the black hole merger that produced it…

Event News

Innovative Insights from RRR2017 on Wetland Carbon Solutions

Wet peatlands protect the world’s climate as gigantic carbon sinks. Drained peatlands, in contrast, globally emit over 2 Gt of carbon dioxide per year. To…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Exploring Lithium-Sulfur Technology for Future Energy Storage

Efficient storage of electrical energy is the bottleneck for all mobile electronic applications. The weight and cost per kWh of battery storage capacity…

Life & Chemistry

Haplobank: Advancing Biobanking with Mutant Stem Cells

Genetic screens have revolutionized our understanding of biological processes and disease mechanisms. Recent technical advances have broadened the available…

Earth Sciences

Charting Ocean Currents: Innovations Using Mud Techniques

Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using the most modest of materials – mud. The approach, reported in the…

Information Technology

Unlocking Quantum Communications: Photon Entanglement Advances

The potential for photon entanglement in quantum computing and communications has been known for decades. One of the issues impeding its immediate application…

Materials Sciences

New Method Enhances Solar Crystal Growth for Better Efficiency

In their natural state, perovskites have difficultly moving solar-generated electricity because they crystallize with randomly oriented grains. Osman Bakr from…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Chemical Fingerprints with Artificial Intelligence

Drastic advances in research of artificial intelligence have led to a wide range of fascinating developments in this area over the last decade. Autonomously…

Environmental Conservation

Preserving Floodplains: Essential Flood Protection Insights

The subject of the study was the Moosach, a tributary of the Isar and located right at the Weihenstephaner “doorstep” of the TUM. The Moosach largely flows…

Life & Chemistry

PEI Develops WHO-Reference Materials for Safe Platelet Concentrates

The first step in the collection of blood donations alone – the act of piercing through the donor’s skin which is covered with bacteria – involves the…

Materials Sciences

3D Graphene Shapes: Innovations in Material Design

Graphene is a close relative to graphite, which consists of millions of layers of graphene and can be found in common pencil tips. After graphene was first…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Zealandia: Insights from the Recent Expedition

After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in…

Health & Medicine

Nerve Cell Dysfunction: Insights from Recent Research

The research team headed by Jana Wrosch of FAU’s Chair of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy found that significant alterations occurred in neural cells while the…

Machine Engineering

Hannover Scientists Unveil Novel Lightweight Production Process

Hybrid compound forging is the first process that combines two lightweight construction approaches, namely creating a material bond between steel sheets and…

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