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Earth Sciences

Toxic 'marine snow' can sink quickly, persist at ocean depths

When algae cells run out of nutrients and start to die, they clump together and sink as marine snow. The algae and its marine snow aggregates can serve as a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Flexible OLEDs Shine in Europe’s First Open Access Pilot Line

Thousands of high tech SMEs in Europe often lack access to advanced, cost-intensive infrastructures and expertise needed to manufacture new and innovative…

Earth Sciences

NASA's Aqua satellite sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Tokage

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of Tokage's remnants in the South…

Information Technology

Algorithm Enhances Online Mapping for Disaster Response

When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more than 1,000 miles away attending college in Shanghai….

Life & Chemistry

Unique Microbial Communities Boost Animal Health and Fitness

Each animal species hosts its own, unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness.

Life & Chemistry

Microwave Technology Lowers Hepatitis C and HIV Risks

“The initial idea for this project came during a telephone call with Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, a New York based street worker with whom we have worked with for a…

Transportation and Logistics

Laser Rescue System Enhances Safety in Serious Accidents

In the past 25 years, the number of road traffic deaths has been drastically reduced, and the number of severely injured persons decreased significantly, too….

Life & Chemistry

Navigating Spliceosome Innovations: Pros and Cons Explored

Wir kennen das Problem: Beim Aufbauen der Einkäufe aus dem Möbelhaus verwenden alle denselben Bauplan. Dennoch kann sich im Laufe mehrerer Zwischenschritte das…

Materials Sciences

New Silicon Etching Technique Creates 3D Gradient Micro-Optics

Working with colleagues at Stanford and The Dow Chemical Company, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fabricated 3-D birefringent…

Physics & Astronomy

Timing the Shadow of a Habitable Extrasolar Planet

A group of researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), the University of Tokyo, and the Astrobiology Center among others has…

Materials Sciences

New Flexible Polymer Safely Stores Hydrogen for Easy Use

A Waseda University (Tokyo) research group has developed a polymer which can store hydrogen in a light, compact and flexible sheet, and is safe to touch even…

Health & Medicine

Brain Changes From Head Impacts in High School Football

“It's important to understand the potential changes occurring in the brain related to youth contact sports,” said Elizabeth Moody Davenport, Ph.D., a…

Earth Sciences

West Antarctic Ice Shelf Cracks: Inside-Out Breakup Unveiled

A key glacier in Antarctica is breaking apart from the inside out, suggesting that the ocean is weakening ice on the edges of the continent.

Life & Chemistry

Evaluating Chemical Safety: Insights from New Interlaboratory Tests

The properties of hazardous substances and dangerous goods must be known in order to be able to assess the risks involved in their proper handling. To do this,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Infrared Heat: Keeping Christmas Stollen Mold-Free

The use of infrared systems from Heraeus Noblelight prior to packaging significantly reduces the formation of mold. For Christmas stollen, 6 seconds at 125°C…

Power and Electrical Engineering

PURA: Innovative Scratch-Resistant Water Bath Technology

The enamel surface coatings are scratch-resistant and too smooth for bacteria and other organisms to take hold and breed. Contaminants also won't stick to the…

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