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Materials Sciences

Nanowires highly 'anelastic,' research shows

“What's surprising here is the magnitude of the effect,” said Huajian Gao, the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Engineering and a coauthor of a new paper…

Earth Sciences

Investigating the Lithosphere of Central Iran’s Rift Zone

The core complex is located within a continental rift and was exhumed at a rate of approx. 0.75 to 1.3 km per million years during the main phase of oceanic…

Information Technology

Wireless Data Delivery via Active TV Channels: Rice Breakthrough

Rice University engineers have demonstrated the first system that allows wireless data transmissions over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts. If the…

Physics & Astronomy

Faster Lasers Enhance Memory with Ultrafast Electron Crystallography

Using ultrafast laser pulses that speed up the data recording process, Caltech researchers adopted a novel technique, ultrafast electron crystallography (UEC),…

Life & Chemistry

An elusive molecule — finally revealed

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a mysterious molecule with a structure simple enough to make it into high school textbooks, yet so…

Health & Medicine

New Gene Linked to Age-Related Obesity and Diabetes Risks

The more severe of the two mutations, called R1788W, is carried by nearly one million Americans. The milder mutation, known as L1622I, is shared by seven…

Information Technology

Eurotech delivers the “Booster” system to Jülich to complete the DEEP supercomputer

With this delivery, the DEEP consortium can leverage a supercomputer with a peak performance of 505 TFlop/s and an efficiency of over 3 GFlop/s per Watt. The…

Life & Chemistry

Lung Repair Mechanisms: Insights Into Healing Innovations

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lung diseases are the third most common cause of death worldwide: toxic particles, infections, and chronic…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Uncertainty Relation in Quantum Information Theory

Information is a key quantity in science and plays a significant role in many economic sectors such as communication technologies, cryptography, or data…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Diesel-Powered Fuel Cell: A New Way to Generate Green Energy

The system consists of a diesel and a water tank, a hydrogen generating module (reformer) and a fuel cell module including a low-temperature-PEM-fuel-cell…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Unveils CP 1243-8 IRC for Secure Industrial Connectivity

With the new CP 1243-8 IRC communication processor, Siemens enables telecontrol applications based on the Sinaut ST7 telecontrol protocol. The new…

Materials Sciences

Chemotherapeutic Coatings Boost Tumor-Frying Nanoparticles

In a move akin to adding chemical weapons to a firebomb, researchers at Duke University have devised a method for making a promising nanoscale cancer treatment…

Corporate News

Siemens delivers a new grid control system for Amprion's Brauweiler main control center

“In our partnership with Amprion, we will help make the new Brauweiler main control center a benchmark in the ENTSO-E environment. Equipped with our new…

Life & Chemistry

Classifying Microbial Species in the Genomics Era

The rapid explosion in the throughput of DNA sequencing due to new technology platforms is fueling an increase in the number of sequenced microbial genomes and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Design Boosts Efficiency of Low-Cost Solar Panels

A new material design tested in experiments at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory could make low-cost solar panels far more…

Life & Chemistry

New Insight on Age-Related Hearing Loss Contributors

Conventional wisdom has long blamed age-related hearing loss almost entirely on the death of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, but research from…

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