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New Sensor Technologies and Mobile Robotics for Emotion-sensitive Assistance Systems

“EmAsIn” stands for “Emotion-sensitive Assistance Systems for Reactive Psychological Interaction with People”. Within the scope of the project, the team will…

Life & Chemistry

Observing evolution in real time

To characterize the evolution and adaptation of HIV variants, the researchers analyzed the viral RNA from samples of HIV-infected patients for several years,…

Materials Sciences

The artificial materials that came in from the cold

It has often been said that nature is history's greatest innovator and if that is true then scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence…

Communications Media

Noise can't hide weak signals from this new receiver

The study, published in the Dec. 11 issue of Science, lays the groundwork for a new class of highly sensitive communication receivers and scientific…

Information Technology

PC steel wires on concrete and steel bridges now visible with terahertz waves

Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring…

Life & Chemistry

Suicide gene therapy kills prostate tumor cells

The researchers compared two arms of patients and report high five-year overall survival rates of 97 percent and 94 percent, respectively. That's a five to 20…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer cell collaborators smooth the way for cancer cells to metastasize

At ASCB 2015, Vanderbilt researchers show how metastasizing tumors use non-cancerous fibroblasts to make a migration highway through surrounding extracellular…

Physics & Astronomy

New results from world's most sensitive dark matter detector

The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the…

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Thin layer of air between ship's hull and water prevents biological growth and reduces friction

Within a project of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung a novel surface technology has been developed that can hold gas molecules between a surface and surrounding liquids. Such a material could be extremely useful in shipbuilding rendering toxic anti-fouling coatings obsolete and simultanously reducing frictional resistance between vessel and seawater, thus saving fuel.

Physics & Astronomy

Nanoparticles Transform Light Scattering for Efficient Optical Antennas

A study into the way nanoparticles scatter light could lead to simpler and smaller optical nanoantennas with improved directivity and efficiency — crucial…

Life & Chemistry

New Sensor Visualizes Nitrate and Nitrite Levels Effectively

A team led by Professor Takafumi Uchida has created a new technique for visualizing the dynamics of nitrate (NO3-) and nitrite (NO2−), both markers of nitric…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Cleans Water Using Simple Nanomaterials Shake

Purifying water and greening nanotechnology could be as simple as shaking a vial of water and oil. At least that's the case for a new method to clean…

Health & Medicine

Plant compound found in spices and herbs increases brain connections

Brazilian researchers from D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists learn how poxviruses defeat the body's host defense

In a new report, virologists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and their collaborators at Oklahoma…

Earth Sciences

Cold, hot or dry: Persistent weather extremes associated with decreased storm activity

“Less or less severe storms in the mid-latitudes, this at first sight seems to be good news – but unfortunately it isn’t,” says lead-author Jascha Lehmann….

Life & Chemistry

Trees either hunker down or press on in a drying and warming western US climate

Two University of Washington researchers have uncovered details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought…

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