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Siemens Upgrades ZDF’s Power Supply With Autonomous Control System

Siemens will construct an autonomous control system to control and monitor the entire power supply. All work has to be performed without interrupting…

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Understanding the fruit fly’s nose

How odours influence actions is one of the fundamental questions in neuroscience. Richard Benton, associate professor at the Center for Integrative Genomics at…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Polyomavirus Post-Kidney Transplant Complications

Polyomavirus infections are common, however, they usually do not cause symptoms in healthy adults. However, the virus becomes much more problematic for…

Health & Medicine

Cologne Scientists Explore Bumetanide to Prevent Newborn Epilepsy

Using the substance bumetanide in newborn mice, the scientists succeeded in attenuating the disease progression, allowing the animals to develop almost…

Physics & Astronomy

New Research Challenges Fundamental Principles of Physics

Professor Christopher Sachrajda, from the Southampton Theory Astrophysics and Gravity Research Centre at the University of Southampton, has helped to devise…

Machine Engineering

Hardened Steels Boost Efficiency in Small Engine Design

Combustion engines still have much potential to save energy and reduce emissions. The present trend is to use smaller engines of the same or even increased…

Materials Sciences

High-Temperature Superconductivity: Key Advances Ahead

They have found important applications as essential components of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN, levitating trains, and the magnetic…

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Space-Saving AS-i SlimLine Modules for Control Cabinets

New and extremely compact series of AS-i SlimLine compact modules in degree of protection IP20 for the control cabinet and distributed control boxes
Digital…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling the Brain’s Complexity: Efficient Neural Connections

Our brain is a mysterious machine. Billions of nerve cells are connected such that they store information as efficiently as books are stored in a…

Earth Sciences

Low-oxygen 'dead zones' in North Pacific linked to past ocean warming

Results of the research, which was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are published today in the journal Nature.

Health & Medicine

New Insights into Candida Albicans and Health Impacts

A regular resident of our microbiome – and especially ubiquitous in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients -the Candida albicans fungus is an “opportunistic…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Microevolution: The Eye’s Complex Adaptations

For a beholder who is an evolutionary biologist, the eye is has long been a fascinating puzzle because of the many parts that must seamlessly work together for…

Life & Chemistry

Hydra’s Epithelial Cells Can Modify Their Genetic Program

Champion of regeneration, the freshwater polyp Hydra is capable of reforming a complete individual from any fragment of its body. It is even able to remain…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Uses Electric Fields to Clear Nanoparticles from Blood

Nanoparticles, which are generally one thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, are difficult to separate from plasma, the liquid component of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Tandem Solar Cells: A Better Way to Harness Solar Energy

What is true for double-blade razors is also true for solar cells: two work steps are more thorough than one. Stacking two solar cells one on top of the other,…

Information Technology

New App Simplifies Laser Process Simulation for All Users

Before now, the reliable simulation of laser processes was a job for experts. Armed with sophisticated software packages and after many hours on computer…

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