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Health & Medicine

Virtual Journey Through the Heart: Innovation in Medical Imaging

Medical research and art sometimes meet at their finest: experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS in Bremen produced a…

Life & Chemistry

Nature-Inspired Adhesion: Lessons from Marine Life

Wet adhesion is a true engineering challenge. Marine animals such as mussels, oysters and barnacles are naturally equipped with the means to adhere to rock,…

Materials Sciences

Sandcastle-Inspired Nanoparticle Binding Technique Unveiled

In a paper published this week in Nature Materials, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill show that…

Life & Chemistry

Boroles get a stability boost

Boroles are boron containing molecules that have great electron-accepting ability. This makes them excellently suited for materials that could bring further…

Innovative Products

Safe motorcycle helmets – made of carrot fibers?

All over the world, research is being conducted into biodegradable and recyclable synthetics. However, fiber-reinforced components remain problematic – if…

Earth Sciences

NASA satellites analyze Typhoon Soudelor moving toward Taiwan

Heavy rain, towering thunderstorms, and a large area are things that NASA satellites observed as Typhoon Soudelor moves toward Taiwan on August 5, 2015.

Physics & Astronomy

Caltech astronomers unveil a distant protogalaxy connected to the cosmic web

Using the Caltech-designed and -built Cosmic Web Imager (CWI) at Palomar Observatory, the researchers were able to image the protogalaxy and found that it is…

Life & Chemistry

Water striders' jumping on water — understood and imitated after careful observations

The Korean-Polish team of biologists, Piotr Jablonski, Sang-Im Lee and Jae Hak Son from the Laboratory of Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (Jablonski, Lee and…

Physics & Astronomy

From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

The images were captured by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting 1…

Earth Sciences

Lightning reshapes rocks at the atomic level, Penn study finds

Using extremely high-resolution microscopy, Gieré, professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn's School of Arts &…

Physics & Astronomy

Focused Laser Power Boosts Ion Acceleration

The interaction of high-intensity laser light with solid targets could someday serve as the basis of table-top sources of high-energy ions for medical…

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Martin Jinek wins Vallee Young Investigator Award

Professor Martin Jinek’s main research interest is a sophisticated bacterial mechanism known as the CRISPR system that has recently been developed into a…

Life & Chemistry

Diabetes drug modulates cholesterol levels

The DZD-researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and German Diabetes Center Düsseldorf analyzed more than 1.800 blood samples of participants, who joined the…

Physics & Astronomy

Solving Atomic Mass Discrepancy Advances Neutrino Research

A team of scientists now succeeded to resolve a severe discrepancy of the decay energy for the artificial holmium (Ho) isotope with mass number 163. It decays…

Medical Engineering

Imaging Probe Offers Dual Insights for Cancer Diagnosis

An organic dye that can light up cancer cells for two powerful imaging techniques providing complementary diagnostic information has been developed and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

High-Tech Shop-Floor Monitoring: Boost Efficiency and Precision

Individual operations on the shop floor of an industrial plant can be tracked using a sophisticated automated monitoring system that employs advanced…

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