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New Polymerisable Fluorosurfactants: Compliant & Tunable Solutions

The present invention relates to new polymerisable fluorosurfactants. Commonly used surfactants are affected by phase out regulations or require tedious synthesis.

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Light-Guided Scleral Depressor-Marker Enhances Eye Surgery

In ophthalmologic surgery, it is often necessary to mark the pathological alterations of vitreoretinal structures on the sclera.
The new depressor-marker allows depressing and marking with only one device, which must not be changed during ophthalmological surgery.

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Contactless Monitoring Solution for Equipment Positioning

The solution enables a simple and cost-efficient monitoring of the position of recipients and the therein located installations. As a contactless procedure, it is applicable during regular operation.

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Ionization Manometer Enhances UHV/XHV Pressure Measurement

This innovative solution was mainly developed for the measurement of the residual gas pressure in beam pipes of circular and linear accelerators.
It allows pressure measurements in areas of a recipient that are difficult to access.

Earth Sciences

NASA Targets Melting Arctic Sea Ice With New Science Flights

NASA's Operation IceBridge completed the first research flight of its new 2016 Arctic summer campaign on July 13. The science flights, which continue through…

Physics & Astronomy

Control Electron Spin: Levitated Nanodiamond Breakthrough

Researchers have demonstrated how to control the “electron spin” of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find…

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RPPA2016: Insights from the 6th Global Protein Array Workshop

Reverse Phase Protein Arrays (RPPA) is a well-established technology that allows sensitive and quantitative detection of hundreds of proteins and their…

Materials Sciences

New Thin Material Mimics Cell Membranes for Innovative Uses

Materials scientists have created a new material that performs like a cell membrane found in nature. Such a material has long been sought for applications as…

Information Technology

Nanoscale Tech Advances Microscopes and Disease Research

Shubra Gangopadhyay, an electrical and computer engineer and her team at MU recently published studies outlining a new, relatively inexpensive imaging platform…

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Dynamic 3D Data Visualization Boosts GPU Performance

The invention presented here is a procedure which can be profitably implemented into a graphics processor to contribute to a noticeable increase of performance.

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Holography: First Hologram of a Single Light Particle

Scientists at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, have created the first ever hologram of a single light particle. The spectacular experiment,…

Materials Sciences

Rice's 'antenna-reactor' catalysts offer best of both worlds

In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics…

Life & Chemistry

Toxic Alzheimer's protein spreads through brain via extracellular space

A toxic Alzheimer's protein can spread through the brain–jumping from one neuron to another–via the extracellular space that surrounds the brain's neurons,…

Health & Medicine

Combatting Life-Threatening Bacteria Without Antibiotics

Each year, about 170,000 people die of complications of hepatic cirrhosis in Europe. Frequent causes of the widespread disease include alcohol abuse, fatty…

Earth Sciences

Continental tug-of-war – until the rope snaps

Present-day continents were shaped hundreds of millions of years ago as the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. Derived from Pangaea’s main fragments Gondwana…

Earth Sciences

Breakthrough in Climate Phase Reconstruction Unveiled by AWI

Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models….

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