The German states of Berlin and Brandenburg today signed a new transportation contract with S-Bahn Berlin for the future operation of the ring/south-east…
The Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics (CINAP) within IBS has reported results correlating the flake merging angle with grain boundary (GBs)…
What if you could make any object out of a flat sheet of paper?
The first human farmers needed hundreds of years and a lot of good luck to shape the first domesticated crops. Modern plant breeders wait weeks or months, not…
The ultimate goal of spintronics is to have a deeper understanding of the charge-to-spin conversion and transport phenomena at the nanoscale in order to be…
Using a new technology for repairing disease genes–the much-talked-about CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing–University of Iowa researchers working together with…
Neural stem cells possess extraordinary abilities: They can multiply, fall into a sort of hibernation (“quiescence”) or differentiate into mature cell types…
The human brain works with division of labour. Although our thinking organ excels in displaying amazing flexibility and plasticity, typically different areas…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by progressive dementia and brain plaques consisting of the Aβ protein. Conventional wisdom has it that AD is not a…
Coral reefs are complex ecosystems with high biodiversity
For two-dimensional film thickness determination, a measurement system based on a hyperspectral imager has been developed for the first time. A head forms a measurement line. Reflection of the measurement object is displayed on the entrance slit of the hyperspectral imager. From the spectral reflectance data of each locally resolvable pixel of the examined object the layer height is reconstructed. If the measurement object is moving uniformly, combined measurement lines are resulting in a two-dimensional measuring surface. In addition, for each locally resolvable pixel the distance between head and measurement object can be determined.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological movement disorder. Atypical Parkinson syndromes arise from other neurodegenerative diseases like Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The accurate distinction between them is challenging. Our scientists developed a new diagnostic test to differentiate between DLB, PD and other neuropathies.
In the water above natural oil seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, where oil and gas bubbles rise almost a mile to break at the surface, scientists have discovered…
Conventional pressure sensors are flexible enough to fit to soft surfaces such as human skin, but they cannot measure pressure changes accurately once they are…
Liang Fang and his colleagues in Walter Birchmeier's group at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), working with colleagues on the Berlin-Buch…
Integrating electronic assemblies can level up the capabilities of textiles with many versatile functions, from monitoring to lighting and beyond. With 15…
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