Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions to billions of times the mass of the…
African Americans have a heightened risk of developing chronic and end-stage kidney disease. This association has been attributed to two common genetic…
Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage devices more juice per charge than today's commonly…
An international team of researchers has identified a core set of genes involved in the responses of honey bees to multiple diseases caused by viruses and…
A leader in thin-film technology R&D, the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden, Germany, has…
Using 3D electron microscopy, structural biologists from the University of Zurich succeeded in elucidating the architecture of the lamina of the cell nucleus…
The programme for the 2017 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is now online. The meeting, which this year is anticipated to attract over…
A recently started new project intends to monitor the variety and the risks of extinction of insects living at the margins of the Andean glaciers. The…
Smoke from cigarettes blocks self-healing processes in the lungs and consequently can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Researchers at the…
There are few things more central to life on earth than water. It dominates the physical landscape, covering much of the planet as oceans. It's also a major…
Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University College London researchers to explore an…
There's a new trend in agriculture called vertical farming. As humans learned to farm, we arranged plants outside in horizontal fields, and invented irrigation…
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have discovered a way to detect signs of cancer on a cell-by-cell basis using two lasers and a camera.
Non-woven fabrics are indispensable to everyday life. A Fraunhofer Institute has developed software that makes the production of non-woven products much more…
Automated vehicles have to be able to reliably detect traffic signs. Previous systems, however, have had problems in understanding complex traffic management…
Prof. Dr. Paul Scherer, Dr. Sandra Off and Master Sci. Biot. Katarina Wegner of the Faculty of Life Sciences made a successful job as “microbe hunters“. They…