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Physics & Astronomy

STIX X-Ray Telescope Set to Launch for Solar Research

STIX (short for Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays) is designed to measure X-ray radiation emitted from the hot corona, the outer solar atmosphere….

Health & Medicine

Boosting Immune Response in Bacterial Co-Infections

Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin were able to positively influence the immune response in severe viral and bacterial co-infection. Using a…

Life & Chemistry

Decoding Seed Dormancy: Insights from New Protein Research

For plants, seed dormancy has a particular importance. It ensures that a seed does not germinate outside season – for example during warm weather in winter –…

Life & Chemistry

New Technique Unlocks Secrets of Cerebellar Interneurons

The cerebellum is an area of brain at the back of your head involved in movement. Its neuronal circuitry is relatively simple compared to other areas, but…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Fernanda Forms in Eastern Pacific Ocean

Tropical Depression 6E formed on July 11 at 11 p.m. EDT (July 12 at 0300 UTC) about 740 miles (1,190 km) south of the southern tip of Baja California, Mexico.

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Charge Reversal Observed in Electrolyte Solutions

Charged surfaces submerged in an electrolyte solution can sometimes become oppositely charged. This nonintuitive phenomenon, known as charge inversion, happens…

Life & Chemistry

Laser-Cooled Ions Enhance Understanding of Friction Dynamics

Friction: what you want from car brakes, otherwise rather a nuisance. In any case, it is useful to know as precisely as possible how friction phenomena arise –…

Life & Chemistry

Ciliates and their bacterial partners – A global partnership

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Life & Chemistry

How Brain Synapses Reflect the Visual World’s Structure

Individual visual stimuli are not processed independently by our brain. Rather neurons exchange incoming information to form a coherent perceptual image from…

Life & Chemistry

"Happiness hormone" dopamine controls immune defence

When a foreign substance invades our body, the body produces antibodies that recognise and fight the intruder. In specialised regions of the lymph nodes,…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding RNA Molecules: Their Role and Short Lifespan

RNA molecules are individual transcripts of the cell’s DNA. They transfer the genetic information of the DNA and provide a template for the production of…

Information Technology

Curved Telescopes: Innovative Tool Transforms 3D Design

A new tool for computational design allows users to turn any 3D shape into a collapsible telescoping structure. New mathematical methods developed by…

Life & Chemistry

New Antibody Targets Carcinogenic PAHs for Health Innovation

During the incomplete combustion of organic substances polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are created. The most well-known of these substances is…

Physics & Astronomy

Spiky Ferrofluid Thrusters: New Tech for Satellite Movement

He is the lead author of a recent article in Physics of Fluids, “Ionic Liquid Ferrofluid Interface Deformation and Spray Onset Under Electric and Magnetic…

Materials Sciences

Thinking Thin: New Layering Techniques Transform Semiconductors

What would a simple technique to remove thin layers from otherwise thick, rigid semiconductor crystals mean for the semiconductor industry? This concept has…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Twins Study: Advancing Space Sample Processing Techniques

Innovative thinking could improve the way biological samples are processed and transported from space back to research labs on Earth for future studies. This…

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