A new study done by University of Texas at Dallas researchers indicates that watching 3-D images of tongue movements can help individuals learn speech sounds.
Particle accelerators are several kilometres long and costs many millions of euros; large ones cost over a billion euros. There are therefore only a small…
In Germany, approximately one out of a hundred people suffer from epilepsy and one out of twenty suffer a seizure at least once during their lifetime. Seizures…
Fossils and sediments from deep sea zones of some thousand meters are extremely rare. Therefore, biodiversity and evolution of life in those zones are rarely…
Signalling processes in organisms are governed by specific extracellular and intracellular interactions and involve hundreds of different functionally highly…
Neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, are often characterized by an irreversible loss of brain cells. Unlike many other cell types in the…
The arrangement of the nanostructure of a three-dimensional object can now be visualised thanks to a new method developed by researchers at the Paul Scherrer…
“There is tremendous interest in mapping all the neuron connections in the human brain,” said Dr. James Delehanty, research biologist, Center for Biomolecular…
In a study published in the Nov. issue of ACS Nano, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society focusing on nanoscience and nanotechnology…
“When solid materials such as nanocrystals, bulk metallic glasses, rocks, or granular materials are slowly deformed by compression or shear, they slip…
Zebrafish have become quite a popular model organism for biology researchers over the past few decades. The small freshwater fish begin life as transparent…
“In the physical sciences, making measurements can be time consuming and so you don't want to make unnecessary ones,” said Venkat Gopalan, professor of…
When corn prices increase farmers reap higher yields by making changes. According to a recent University of Illinois study, about one-third of the yield…
The team, which included scientists from General Atomics and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, performed calculations on the Edison computer at the…
A group of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with Russian Science Foundation developed a unique method for the selective…
Simotics XP 1MB1 motors – now approved for use with Sinamics converters in potentially explosive atmospheres
Energy-efficient operation with 1MB1 motors…