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Medieval Earthquakes in Nepal: Unraveling Catastrophic Impacts

Three medieval earthquakes, in 1100, 1255 and 1344, with magnitudes of around Mw 8 triggered large-scale collapses, mass wasting and initiated the…

Life & Chemistry

Visualizing the Brain’s Hidden Language: A New Connectome Method

To understand how an organism’s nervous system functions, a circuit map of all its neuronal connections, known as the connectome, can be generated. A…

Life & Chemistry

Their enemy’s sex pheromone helps flies protect their offspring

Females of the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster show an especially strong response to the odor of their most dangerous enemies, parasitic wasps of the genus…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring the Rise of Lightweight Biosensors in Wearable Tech

The growing market for wearable devices requires a high number of small, light-weight and high capacity sensors for different applications in sport, medicine…

Technology Offerings

New Device Stabilizes Sprayers for Even Pesticide Distribution

Improved sprayer for the application of pesticides. The invention ensures that yawing and rolling movements of a field sprayer are compensated, that output quantities of such chemicals are evenly distributed in the field.

Corporate News

Siemens Supplies Key Components for Bangladesh Power Plant

The Siemens scope of supply for the plant includes one model SGT5-4000F gas turbine, an SST-3000 steam turbine and a model SGen-2000H generator, along with all…

Materials Sciences

Transparent Metal Films: Next-Gen Displays for Devices

Indium tin oxide, the transparent conductor that is currently used for more than 90 percent of the display market, has been the dominant material for the past…

Earth Sciences

Permafrost Thawing Sooner Than Expected, Warns Expert

“The temperature of permafrost is rapidly changing,” said Vladimir Romanovsky, head of the Permafrost Laboratory at the University of Alaska Fairbanks…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Fermi satellite kicks off a blazar-detecting bonanza

“When we looked at all the data from this event, from gamma rays to radio, we realized the measurements told us something we didn't expect about how the black…

Life & Chemistry

First Human Stem Cell-Derived Serotonin Neurons Unveiled

Serotonin affects emotions, sleep, anxiety, depression, appetite, pulse and breathing. It also plays a role in serious psychiatric conditions like…

Earth Sciences

Freshwater Emissions Higher Than Expected: New Research Insights

According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues, the world's rivers and…

Physics & Astronomy

Unraveling Element Origins: LUNA’s Unique Underground Accelerator

LUNA (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics) is a compact linear accelerator. It is the only one in the world installed in an underground facility,…

Transportation and Logistics

Germany’s First Long-Distance Line Without Fixed Signals Launches

As part of the 8th German Unity Transport Project (VDE 8), Siemens and its consortium partner Kapsch CarrierCom Deutschland GmbH are currently equipping the…

Life & Chemistry

New Polymer Membranes Enhance Filtration with Nanometer Holes

A method of fabricating polymer membranes with nanometer-scale holes that overcomes some practical challenges has been demonstrated by researchers at King…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Dark Energy: Understanding Our Universe’s Structure

Our Universe looks like a gigantic sponge: vast spaces (the holes of the sponge) are completely devoid of matter. Filaments made of galaxies and interstellar…

Life & Chemistry

Predators Aid Prey Evolution in Response to Climate Change

The study is one of the first to show that species interactions, meaning the way species interact with each other in an ecosystem, like in a predator-prey…

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