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Physics & Astronomy

Laser Pulses Unlock Future Superconductors for Room Temperature

Another step forward towards superconductivity at room temperature: an experiment at the cutting edge of condensed matter physics and materials science has…

Materials Sciences

Ames Lab, Iowa State Create Efficient Catalytic Material

The researchers succeeded by overcoming some of the technical challenges presented in the fabrication of the platinum-zinc nanoparticles with an ordered…

Life & Chemistry

The veins in your brain don't all act the same

Certain blood vessels in the brainstem constrict when blood vessels elsewhere in the body would dilate. And that contrary behavior is what keeps us breathing,…

Physics & Astronomy

James Webb Instruments Unlock Secrets of Exoplanet Atmospheres

“We wanted to know which combination of observing modes (of Webb) gets you the maximum information content for the minimum cost,” says Natasha Batalha,…

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Life & Chemistry

The Marine Iguana’s ‘Godzilla’ Subspecies: A New Era of Iguana Taxonomy

A team of European and Latin American scientists from the TU Braunschweig in Germany has discovered five previously not listed subspecies of the marine…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Combat Salmonella: Uncovering Bacterial Defense Mechanisms

All bacteria have developed clever mechanisms for survival and propagation within host cells. Salmonella are a typical example: usually they hide in…

Transportation and Logistics

Self-Driving Cars Enhance Traffic Flow: Study Results

“Our experiments show that with as few as 5 percent of vehicles being automated and carefully controlled, we can eliminate stop-and-go waves caused by human…

Environmental Conservation

UNH Study Reveals Invasive Seaweed’s Impact on Ocean Habitats

In the study, recently published in the Journal of Ecology, researchers compared photos of sections of the sea floor, collected over 30 years, at several…

Awards Funding

BMBF Funds Project to Enhance Radiotherapy for Head-Neck Cancer

The term ‘head-neck cancer’ is used to refer to various tumor types that occur in this part of the body, for example, cancer of the oral cavity or pharynx….

Event News

Global Health Experts Unite for Action at World Health Summit

Montreal, May 09, 2017 — On Tuesday, the World Health Summit Regional Meeting concluded in Montreal with more than 80 speakers and 700 international experts…

Life & Chemistry

Rice U. Unveils Dual-Channel Biological Function Generator

Rice University bioengineers who specialize in creating tools for synthetic biology have unveiled the latest version of their “biofunction generator and…

Medical Engineering

SPECT/CT and Fluorescence Imaging Detect Micrometastases

Researchers in The Netherlands have demonstrated that combining SPECT/CT and fluorescence imaging could help surgeons differentiate tumor tissue from normal…

Physics & Astronomy

New Space Weather Model Simulates Solar Storms Effectively

Now, an international team of scientists, led by the Space Sciences Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley, and funded in part by NASA, has developed…

Information Technology

Camera Tech Enhances Workplace Ergonomics for Healthier Movements

Back pain, knee problems, tenosynovitis: Wrong movements at work may cause permanent illness. To protect workers, researchers from Hannover are currently…

Life & Chemistry

Closing Mitochondrial Gates: New Insights from Research

Eukaryotic cells contain thousands of proteins, which are distributed to different cellular compartments with specific functions. A German-Swiss team of…

Life & Chemistry

Plant’s embryonic development: Maternal and paternal cooperation

The Arabidopsis thaliana is a tiny, inconspicuous and herbaceous offshoot of the family of cruciferous plant that one might easily overlook in a meadow, yet…

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