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Supercomputer Confirms 2015 India/Pakistan Heat Waves Study

Three researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are among the co-authors on the paper, which is included in “Explaining Extreme…

Earth Sciences

Astronomers discover dark past of planet-eating 'Death Star'

An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Chicago, has made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star…

Earth Sciences

MBARI's seafloor maps provide new information about 2015 eruption at Axial Seamount

At the 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will be presenting a new…

Social Sciences

Internet Use in Class Linked to Lower Test Scores

Michigan State University researchers studied laptop use in an introductory psychology course and found the average time spent browsing the web for…

Health & Medicine

COPD: Understanding Causes of Lung Healing Loss

The first indication of COPD is usually a chronic cough. As the disease progresses, the airways narrow and often pulmonary emphysema develops. This indicates…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Guidelines for Eco-Friendly Exterior Lighting

“Light has effects,” says coordinator of the network Sibylle Schroer, “on plants and animals as well as on us humans.” Even small quantities of artificial…

Physics & Astronomy

Fast Track Control Boosts Quantum Bit Switching Speed

An international collaboration between physicists at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, McGill University, and the University of Konstanz…

Medical Engineering

New Hybrid Technology for Stroke Diagnosis and Treatment

The project is being funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology for Health (EIT Health), a publicly financed initiative that aims to ensure…

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Diving into Diazadiborines: New Materials for Molecular Electronics

Diazadiborines provide a new class of substances for molecular electronics. In addition to the application in the area of molecular electronics itself, i.e. as molecular electronic building blocks, diazadiborines may also ? analogously to other polycyclic aromatic compounds ? be used in the area of printable electronics, esp. as functional compounds in printing-pastes

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Enhanced Movement with Multifunctional Limb Prosthesis

Powered, multi-funcitonal limb movement auxiliary method and device, particularly prosthesis and movement-assisting orthosis, with combined estimation regimes of multiple degrees of freedom (DOF) showing a “natural” movement.

Physics & Astronomy

Revolutions in understanding the ionosphere, Earth's interface to space

Far above Earth's surface, within the tenuous upper atmosphere, is a sea of particles that have been split into positive and negative ions by the sun's harsh…

Physics & Astronomy

Controlled Electron Pulses: Insights from Groundbreaking Research

For this two-colour experiment, as they refer to it, the researchers – Dr. Michael Förster, Timo Paschen, Dr. Michael Krüger and Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff –…

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New Study Models Tsunami Risk for Florida and Cuba

While the Caribbean is not thought to be at risk for tsunamis, a new study by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Plate Tectonics: Earth’s Dynamic Surface Explained

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of…

Earth Sciences

Taking stock of the world's lakes

The total shoreline of the world's lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over…

Health & Medicine

Early signs of Alzheimer’s detected in cerebrospinal fluid

Researchers at the Munich site of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich…

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