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Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Supercomputer Simulates Planet Formation in Debris Disk

“We essentially created a virtual Beta Pictoris in the computer and watched it evolve over millions of years,” said Erika Nesvold, an astrophysicist at the…

Health & Medicine

Multiple pathways progressing to Alzheimer's disease

The amyloid cascade hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) posits that sticky aggregations or plaques of amyloid-beta peptides accumulate over time in the…

Health & Medicine

New Epigenetic Switches Transform Stem Cells into Vascular Cells

The report, published online in the journal Stem Cell Reports, identifies two enzymes that alter the expression of certain genes needed for embryonic cells to…

Life & Chemistry

High-Performance Microscope Reveals Cell Nucleus Pores

An active exchange takes place between the cell nucleus and the cytoplasm: Molecules are transported into the nucleus or from the nucleus into the cytoplasm….

Life & Chemistry

Iron’s Surprising Origins: How Bacteria Shape Its Existence

Think of an object made of iron: An I-beam, a car frame, a nail. Now imagine that half of the iron in that object owes its existence to bacteria living two and…

Physics & Astronomy

Spiral Arms Support Baby Terrestrial Planets’ Formation

In the early stages of their formation, stars are surrounded by rotating disks of gas and dust. The dust grains in the disk collide and aggregate to form…

Awards Funding

New SNSF Funding Boosts Independent Clinical Research

Therapies for rare diseases, drug dose reductions and the comparisons of surgical interventions are not in the focus of the pharmaceutical industry because…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Solid State Polymer Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries

Method for production of a mechanical stable and flexible polymer based ion conducting solid state polymer electrolyte membrane for the use in lithium based accumulators.

Corporate News

Siemens and Esvagt christen wind industry's first offshore Service Operation Vessels

Joined by government and community officials, customers and special guests, Siemens this week celebrated the official christenings of the offshore wind…

Corporate News

Siemens Partners with BioNTech on Personalized Cancer Vaccines

Siemens and BioNTech AG, a fully integrated biotechnology company developing truly personalized cancer immunotherapies, have entered into a strategic…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method to Control Plasma Rotation Enhances Fusion Performance

Such a method could prove important for future facilities like ITER, the huge international tokamak under construction in France that will demonstrate the…

Physics & Astronomy

Lasers Create Nanoscale Geometric Grids for Electronics

Down at the nanoscale, where objects span just billionths of a meter, the size and shape of a material can often have surprising and powerful electronic and…

Life & Chemistry

Self-Cloning Starfish: Insights on Longevity and Telomeres

In the study, researchers investigated the telomere lengths and population genetics of a starfish, Coscinasterias tenuispina. The telomeres are located at the…

Materials Sciences

ABattReLife: Understanding Electric Vehicle Battery Aging

During a period of three years the project partners studied in five project steps what causes aging of electric vehicle batteries and what could stop the aging…

Life & Chemistry

Drug discovery for Parkinson's disease: LCSB researchers grow neurons in 3-D

The scientists working with Dr. Ronan Fleming of the LCSB research group Systems Biochemistry are confident this system could greatly facilitate the continuing…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Galaxy Continues to Grow by Swallowing Smaller Galaxies

Astronomers expect that galaxies grow by swallowing smaller galaxies. But the evidence is usually not easy to see — just as the remains of the water thrown…

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