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Life & Chemistry

Why a Diabetes Drug Could Help in Parkinson’s Disease

A diabetes drug might help in certain types of Parkinson’s disease, reports a team of German brain researchers headed by Dr. Julia Fitzgerald at the Hertie…

Health & Medicine

Smartphone Selfies: New App Screens for Pancreatic Cancer

Now, University of Washington researchers have developed an app that could allow people to easily screen for pancreatic cancer and other diseases — by…

Earth Sciences

NASA calculates Tropical Storm Harvey's flooding rainfall

NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM or IMERG product is used to make estimates of precipitation from a combination of space-borne passive…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Dispersants Used After Deepwater Horizon Spill

New research has uncovered an added dimension to the decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants above the crippled seafloor oil well during the…

Life & Chemistry

Tropical Plantations Impact Biodiversity in Indonesia Study

A research team at the University of Göttingen has conducted a large-scale study in Indonesia to understand how the conversion of rainforest to rubber and oil…

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3D Human Body Reconstruction via VR: Insights from Fraunhofer HHI

Fraunhofer HHI researchers have developed a camera system that films people with a perfect three-dimensional impression. The core of this system is a stereo…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Detect Magnetic Fields in Distant Galaxy 5 Billion Light-Years Away

Using observations of a gigantic cosmic lens carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, a team of astronomers has detected coherent magnetic fields…

Life & Chemistry

The brain’s defense cells live longer than expected

Eliminating pathogens and cellular waste—this is an important task of microglia cells, the immune cells of the brain. They belong to the group of non-neural…

Health & Medicine

New Therapeutic Targets for Osteoarthritis Pain Relief

It covers the limitations of existing treatments and introduces the latest understanding of the complex mechanisms behind OA pain, which offers exciting new…

Materials Sciences

New Wrapping Material Boosts Bioimaging Quality

Be it cosmology or biology, the advancement of science largely relies on the advancement of measuring instruments and methodology. In the past couple of…

Physics & Astronomy

Kepler Satellite Reveals Variability in the Seven Sisters Stars

Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope in its K2 Mission, the team has performed the most detailed study yet of the…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Ultrasound Sensors Enhance Forage Harvester Reliability

Reliability and chopping quality are significant factors for forage harvester economy. For economical operation to be possible, the harvesting machines must…

Materials Sciences

High Tunability of 2-D Materials Unveiled in New Study

Two-dimensional materials are a sort of a rookie phenom in the scientific community. They are atomically thin and can exhibit radically different electronic…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Conformal Metasurface Coating Reduces Crosstalk in Waveguides

“Imagine the water faucet in your home, which is an essential every-day device,” said Douglas H. Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professor of…

Event News

Global Insights on Sustainable Human Environments

The rapid pace of change around the world is presenting humankind and human environments with tremendous challenges. What solutions and strategies can we…

Life & Chemistry

Magic Enzymes: Unlocking the Power of Psilocybe Mushrooms

Little fungi pack a punch: “Magic mushrooms” of the Psilocybe species produce psychoactive compounds that alter perception when ingested. Recently, the effects…

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