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Detecting Alzheimer's disease earlier using … Greebles?

Unique graphic characters called Greebles may prove to be valuable tools in detecting signs of Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms become apparent.

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: How Tuberculosis Bacteria Burst Host Cells

In a paper published this week in Nature Microbiology, an international team of scientists across Europe, including IMP (Institute of Molecular Pathology) and…

Physics & Astronomy

Measuring Black Hole Shadows: Insights from Event Horizon Telescope

Due to the strong pull of gravity, not even light can escape from black holes, whose surface, i.e., the event horizon, cannot be observed directly. However,…

Life & Chemistry

New Nanobody Tool Reveals Protein Relocation in Fruit Flies

The research group of Markus Affolter is investigating the growth of the wings of the fruit fly Drosophila to understand which processes control organ…

Process Engineering

Exploring Additive Manufacturing: From Macro to Nano Innovations

The sky's the limit: laser deposition welding

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Innovative Forging Tool Enhances Steel Piston Production

Conventional forging tools are not suited to create undercuts, since afterwards part removal from the tool is impossible. Undercuts are areas or protrusions…

Physics & Astronomy

ALMA Observes Dramatic Stellar Fireworks in New Study

Stars are born when a cloud of gas hundreds of times more massive than our Sun begins to collapse under its own gravity. In the densest regions, protostars…

Earth Sciences

How Deep Melting Creates Volcanic Arcs Beneath Oceans

Beneath the ocean, massive tectonic plates collide and grind against one another, which drives one below the other. This powerful collision, called subduction,…

Earth Sciences

Isotopic Fingerprint of N2O Emissions Found in Arctic Tundra

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland presents, for the first time, the isotopic fingerprint of nitrous oxide produced by Arctic soils. The…

Medical Engineering

PET Radiotracer Design Enhances Targeted Immunotherapy Monitoring

A drug that blocks a cancer's inhibitory checkpoint molecules is called an immune checkpoint inhibitor and this form of immunotherapy has emerged as a…

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Hannover Messe: Cost-Effective Inkjet Printing for Flexible Screens

Flexible smart phones are desirable for a lot of users. Up to now the displays of the innumerable phones and pods are rigid and do not yield to the anatomical…

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Hannover Messe: Hybrid Inks for Flexible Printed Electronics

Flexible circuits can be produced inexpensively on foil or paper using printing processes and permit futuristic designs with curved diodes or input elements….

Awards Funding

ERC Awards Six Advanced Grants to Helmholtz Research

“In the tenth anniversary year of the European Research Council its funding continues to be as attractive as it has always been. I am pleased that six of our…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Food Webs: Human Connections to Nature and Agriculture

“As southwestern archaeologists, we know that Ancestral Puebloan people were intrinsically connected to the environment,” said Stefani Crabtree, postdoctoral…

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Voice Control Enhances Acoustic Monitoring in Production

“Bag 3 kg of hex screws and take them to the packaging department”– what used to be a typical instruction to be executed by an employee working in a logistics…

Materials Sciences

Femtosecond X-Ray Spectroscopy: Capturing Electron Movements

The ephemeral electron movements in a transient state of a reaction important in biochemical and optoelectronic processes have been captured and, for the first…

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