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Materials Sciences

New Photonic Crystal Allows Unscattered Light Propagation

Achievable Even by Silicone Alone; Developments of New Functions through Integration with Semiconductor Electronics

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Pneumatic Seeding Machine Boosts Kenaf Planting Speed

Kenaf seeds as well as other seedlings such as corn can now be planted in an economical, easier and organized way and faster with the use of pneumatic seeding…

Life & Chemistry

A*STAR Scientists Sequence New Streptococcus Bacteria Strain

Scientists from Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), together with Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and the…

Physics & Astronomy

Extremely dense – approaching a poorly understood state of matter

A team from the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Kiel University, headed by Professor Michael Bonitz, has now been able to discover new…

Physics & Astronomy

High-Resolution Analysis of Ion Beam Effects on Tissue Lesions

The biological effects of radiation consist in the damage caused to genetic information (DNA) contained in every cell nucleus. However, cells feature powerful…

Awards Funding

Professor Ignacio Cirac Wins Hamburg Prize for Quantum Innovation

On the basis of quantum mechanics his investigations are leading to new concepts for quantum computers – devices based on a system of quantum particles that…

Life & Chemistry

Advancing Lensless Imaging with Ultrafast Extreme UV Light

Using ultrafast beams of extreme ultraviolet light streaming at a 100,000 times a second, researchers from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany,…

Materials Sciences

UCLA Physicists Map 3-D Positions of Individual Atoms

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter on Earth, and the patterns in which they are arranged dictate how strong, conductive or flexible a material will…

Medical Engineering

Simple measurement method from Dresden improves accuracy in proton beam therapy

A proton beam is similar to a bullet in that it has a certain projectile range. The power of destruction of the charged particles is greatest shortly before…

Life & Chemistry

Insects passed 'the Turing Test'

In 1952, the legendary British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing proposed a model, which assumes formation of complex patterns through chemical…

Earth Sciences

Exotic Terrane Collided with China: A 100 Million-Year Journey

This exotic terrane of a sizeable mass with large compositional buoyancy could be either an oceanic plateau or a micro continent, which was transported by, or…

Materials Sciences

Unlocking the Redox-Switch in n-Butanol Biosynthesis Enzyme

Biological n-butanol production was first reported by Louis Pasteur in 1861, and the bioprocess was industrialized using Clostridium acetobutylicum. The…

Information Technology

First Circularly Polarized Light Detector on Silicon Chip

Invention of the first integrated circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip opens the door for development of small, portable sensors that could…

Process Engineering

Infrared Heat: Enhancing Grip on Everyday Tools

Steering wheels, watering cans and handles shall have a good grip. On no account must they have sharp edges. However, sharp burrs cannot always be avoided when…

Life & Chemistry

Maternal Experience: Key to Evolutionary Advantage in Species

In their study, the researchers working under Prof. Andreas Erhardt firstly confirmed their earlier results, which showed that parent generations of…

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Fraunhofer HHI Highlights Innovation at ECOC 2015 Valencia

You find the following highlights at our booth 412:

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