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Siemens Expands Light Rail Vehicle Production for US Cities

Siemens has been awarded to build additional light rail vehicles (LRV) for Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) and Metro Transit, which serves the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Technique Helps Animals and Robots Navigate Sand and Snow

Using an air fluidized bed trackway filled with poppy seeds or glass spheres, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology systematically varied the…

Materials Sciences

Dielectric Film Achieves Air-Like Refractive Index

At issue is something called refractive index, which measures how much light bends when it moves through a substance. Air, for example, has a refractive index…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Use Light to Create Quantum Electronics Designs

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the Pennsylvania State University have accidentally discovered a new way of using light to draw and…

Information Technology

Kiel and Bochum Researchers Unveil Innovative Storage Device

“Six plus seven makes three – plus one carried over”, calculated Professor Hermann Kohlstedt, Head of the Nanoelectronic group at Kiel University. This…

Life & Chemistry

Juvenile Fish Discovered Under Arctic Sea Ice: A New Study

Using a new net, marine biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice…

Life & Chemistry

Spontaneous Formation of Precursor Proteins Explained

Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart have determined that under certain conditions spontaneous reactions take…

Social Sciences

Guide to Longevity: Insights from Nordic Countries at 40

At age 40, Finns, Swedes, and Norwegians have reached the approximate mid-point of life. It is well known that, on average, whether an individual has more or…

Health & Medicine

Key Molecule Identified in Allergic Asthma Research

Worldwide, there are more than 300 million asthma patients. In Germany alone, 10 – 15 percent of children suffer from allergic asthma that is often impaired by…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Solving the Floppy Yet Fast Innovation Puzzle

Through a combination of computer simulations and various experimental techniques, researchers from Germany, France and the UK have solved this puzzle. A very…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough RNA Sequencing: UConn’s Hand-Held Innovation

UConn researchers have sequenced the RNA of the most complicated gene known in nature, using a hand-held sequencer no bigger than a cell phone.

Life & Chemistry

Newly Discovered ‘Design Rule’ Brings Nature-Inspired Nanostructures One Step Closer

Scientists aspire to build nanostructures that mimic the complexity and function of nature’s proteins, but are made of durable and synthetic materials. These…

Physics & Astronomy

TRIGA Mainz Marks 50 Years with 20,000 Pulses Milestone

The research reactor TRIGA at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has reached a new milestone: after 50 years of consecutive operation, TRIGA Mainz…

Trade Fair News

Flender Couplings Enhance Positional Accuracy in Automation

Can be used in production and machine tools, as well as automation engineering
Bipex-S elastomer coupling for applications subject to vibrations and shocks
Torsionally rigid Sipex metal bellows coupling for angle-preserving torque transmission…

Trade Fair News

Discover the New Simotics S-1FG1 Servo Drive System

New Simotics S-1FG1 servo geared motor with finely graduated transmission ratios
Sinamics S120 converter with a wide range of technology functions and…

Earth Sciences

New Locations Found for Toxic Methylmercury Production

The discovery of these newly identified locations for methylmercury production builds on previous work in which scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak…

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