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Health & Medicine

First Self-Donning Surgical Gown System Unveiled

The research group led by Kiyokazu Nakajima, professor at the Global Center for Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, has succeeded in…

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Earth Sciences

Next Big Earthquake: Istanbul’s Vulnerability Explored

The city of Istanbul is focus of great concern for earthquake researchers. This 15-million metropole is situated very close to the so-called North Anatolian…

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New Materials and Testing Standards in PV Module Reliability

On July 6-7, 2017 the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE is hosting the 7th PV Module Reliability workshop. This year the workshop will be held…

Life & Chemistry

Same Genes, Same Environment: Unpacking Personality Differences

Both the genetics and the environment have an effect on the individual behavior of animals – or at least that is the common doctrine. But what happens when…

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Innovation 4.0: Building a Humane Fourth Industrial Revolution

We are global, we are fast, we are digital. And as the world we know is changing at an incredible pace, there are predictions that 40 percent of the world’s…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Linear potentiometer LRW2/3 – Maximum precision with many measuring points

The LRW2/3 series linear potentiometers are characterized by their compact size and double bearing push rod. The return spring allows them to be used as…

Power and Electrical Engineering

First Flat Lens for Immersion Microscopes: A New Innovation

A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first flat lens for immersion…

Power and Electrical Engineering

3D-Printed Soft Robot Walks on Sand and Stone

Researchers led by Michael Tolley, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California San Diego, will present the robot at the IEEE…

Earth Sciences

Refining the ocean's thermometer

Chronicling Earth's past temperature swings is a basic part of understanding climate change. One of the best records of past ocean temperatures can be found in…

Life & Chemistry

Plants Call for Help: New Insights from Delaware Botanists

When Harsh Bais, a botanist at the University of Delaware, emailed Connor Sweeney to tell the high school student he would be willing to mentor him on a…

Process Engineering

Ultrashort Laser Pulses: Precision Ablation Without Melt

Ultrashort laser pulses (USP) have enormous advantages: they can ablate with submicrometer precision, vaporizing the ablated material immediately without melt…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New 100 kW Inverter Power Module Cuts Weight and Size by 50%

The resulting development is a new inverter power module with an electrical power of 100 kVA, circuit design to the B6 standard, new silicium carbide (SiC)…

Materials Sciences

Gas-Enhanced Laser-Induced Graphene: Unveiling New Properties

Until recently, the Rice lab of James Tour made LIG only in open air, using a laser to burn part of the way through a flexible polyimide sheet to get…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Nature’s Diversity: The Wonders of Human Tissues

Nothing beats nature. The diverse and wonderful varieties of cells and tissues that comprise the human body are evidence of that.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Swarming Robots Take Flight with Virtual Top Hats

Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have created a team of free-flying robots that obeys the two rules of the air: don't collide or undercut each…

Physics & Astronomy

New 'styrofoam' planet provides tools in search for habitable planets

Fifth-graders making styrofoam solar system models may have the right idea. Researchers at Lehigh University have discovered a new planet orbiting a star 320…

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