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Machine Learning Enhances Earthquake Prediction in Lab Tests

By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Robotic System Tracks Neuron Signals in Living Brains

Recording electrical signals from inside a neuron in the living brain can reveal a great deal of information about that neuron's function and how it…

Life & Chemistry

New Nanoparticle Research Raises Environmental Concerns

When environmental and soil chemist Baoshan Xing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst began reading in 2014 that a new, two-dimensional material known as…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering the Whale Shark Highway in the Pacific Ocean

MBARI biological oceanographer John Ryan recently worked with biologists who have been tracking whale sharks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. They…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Magnetic Fields in Distant Galaxy

In an article published Aug. 28 in Nature Astronomy, a collaboration led by Sui Ann Mao, the Minerva Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for…

Earth Sciences

GPM Satellite Tracks Formation of Tropical Storm Irma

Tropical cyclones that form in that part of the Atlantic Ocean are often the largest and most powerful hurricanes of the season. Hurricanes Ivan (2004), Isabel…

Physics & Astronomy

Transforming Heat Energy: New Device Unlocks Fuel Potential

The device is a multicomponent, multilayered composite material called a van der Waals Schottky diode. It converts heat into electricity up to three times more…

Health & Medicine

Drug Combo Breakthrough: Combating Liver Cancer Resistance

Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST conducted the research in collaboration with Professor Jung-Hwan Yoon in the…

Materials Sciences

New Technique Boosts Biodegradable Plastic Production

That step? Bringing the heat.

Architecture & Construction

Smart buildings through innovative membrane roofs and façades

Solar modules and a variety of energy management systems are well established in small and large buildings to optimize their energy balance both by generating…

Life & Chemistry

Nucleolus is a life expectancy predictor


Can a cell show its biological age? And is it possible to foresee an animal’s lifespan? Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Solar Cell Achieves 35.4% Efficiency Breakthrough

A cooperation of the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reaches a certified one-sun energy…

Trade Fair News

New 3D Printing Process Debuts at Formnext 2023

An innovation in the field of additive manufacturing will make its debut from November 14–17 at this year’s formnext in Frankfurt, Germany: the Fraunhofer…

Health & Medicine

New Bacteria-Driven Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes

Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to inflammatory diseases such as Type 2 diabetes.

Physics & Astronomy

Lasers Clean Contaminated Soil: A New Decontamination Method

There might be a new and improved way to rid contaminated soil of toxins and pollutants: zap it with lasers. By directly breaking down pollutants, researchers…

Physics & Astronomy

Probing Laser Cavities: Unraveling Causality Insights

Since the realization of the first laser cavity countless questions have been asked for which laser light has provided the answer. Numerous questions have also…

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