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Optatec 2016: Advancing LED Lighting with Glass Optical Elements

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT will be demonstrating how companies in the LED market can profit from the rapid and cost-effective…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fast, Stretchy Circuits Transform Wearable Electronics

Now, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has created the world's fastest stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, an advance that could drive…

Environmental Conservation

Roadmap for better protection of Borneo’s cats and small carnivores

Borneo harbours more endemic carnivores than any other island except Madagascar and about half of these carnivores are globally threatened with extinction. In…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life

The possibility that water and organic molecules were brought to the early Earth through impacts of objects like asteroids and comets have long been the…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Clouds and Climate in Pre-Industrial Times

“These results are the most important so far by the CLOUD experiment at CERN”, said CLOUD spokesperson Jasper Kirkby, Honorary Professor at the Goethe…

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11 Million Euros Boosts Magnetic Field Sensors for Diagnostics

Research into highly sensitive magnetic field sensors has been the focus of nano research at Kiel University for a number of years. On Wednesday, 25 May, the…

Life & Chemistry

New Approach to T Cell Activation Enhances Immune Response

T cell receptors are an important part of the human immune system. They are able to switch their conformation from an inactive to an active state spontaneously…

Life & Chemistry

Fungi: Unlocking New Sources of Chemical Diversity in Medicine

A large number of drugs used today originate from nature. Most of these molecules, which can be found with or without synthetic modifications and exert their…

Environmental Conservation

Tyrolean Wastewater Treatment Technology Gains Global Adoption

The DEMON®-system was developed and patented by the University of Innsbruck 11 years ago. Today this successful technology has been implemented in about 70…

Life & Chemistry

New Discoveries in Rare Adrenal Cancer Drivers Unveiled

Research teams from 39 institutions in Europe, Northern America, Southern America and Australia have collected and examined 91 adrenal cancer samples. They…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Historical Clouds and Climate Change

To assess the effect of human activity on climate, scientists must be able to compare today's climate with that of the pre-industrial era. One important aspect…

Materials Sciences

Alloys: Boosting Strength and Ductility in Steel Production

Ideally, steels and steel-related alloys should be capable of both properties: they should not fragment, for example during processing in a mill or as car…

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Steam Sterilizable Packaging Films: Enhancing Quality & Safety

Packaging films are ubiquitous, yet their importance and sophistication are often overlooked by consumers. In order to ensure the quality of the purchased…

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LZH Showcases Laser Innovation for Precision Manufacturing

Highly precise and highly flexible: Manufacturing micro structures, sensors and functional surfaces with the laser

Life & Chemistry

Great Apes Show Cooperative Communication Skills

Human communication is one of the most sophisticated signalling systems, being highly cooperative and including fast interactions.

Materials Sciences

New Method Uncovers Hard Magnets With Fewer Rare Earths

The starting point for IWM researchers Wolfgang Körner, Georg Krugel, and Christian Elsässer was a neodymium-iron-nitrogen compound based on a type of…

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