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Process Engineering

Infrared Emitters Transform Manufacturing Processes for Aircraft

The manufacture of the latest sandwich structures, such as those used in modern aircraft and motor vehicles, requires various heating processes. An infrared…

Medical Engineering

Smart Microchips: Enhancing Vision Through Innovative Implants

To date, chip-based retinal implants have only permitted a rudimentary restoration of vision. However, modifying the electrical signals emitted by the implants…

Information Technology

Hildesheim’s StreetPong Prototype: Positive Test Results Revealed

The test results are in. All in all, they are positive, along with a couple of suggestions for improvement: StreetPong, the world’s first traffic-light game,…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Metal Borides for Affordable Hydrogen Production

Achieving economic and environmental viability of hydrogen production through water splitting especially using energy derived from green and sustainable sources is the hallmark of the hydrogen economy. In this invention non-precious metal containing catalysts replacing platinum group metal-based ones are introduced which is key to enable cost-effective water splitting and affordable fuel cells.

Materials Sciences

Graphene Quality Diagnostics: Imaging Carbon Surface Defects

Developed imaging (tomography) procedure has revealed organized patterns of defects on large areas of carbon surfaces. Several types of defects on the carbon…

Event News

Bioeconomy Insights: Experts Discuss Sustainable Innovations

The conference at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) demonstrated the key role the bioeconomy will play in…

Earth Sciences

New Methane Sink Discovered in Granitic Rock

The methane in the granite is consumed through microbe-mediated anaerobic oxidation, a process dominantly described from marine seabeds where it significantly…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Depression 07W Organizes Near Pohnpei, Micronesia

Currently the storm is 254 miles southeast of Pohnpei part of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Environmental Conservation

Shifts in Marine Fish Species in Puget Sound’s Populated Areas

The most populated areas of Puget Sound have experienced striking shifts in marine species, with declines in herring and smelt that have long provided food for…

Health & Medicine

'Fracture' prints, not fingerprints, help solve child abuse cases

Implications from the Michigan State University research could help with the determination of truth in child abuse cases, potentially resulting in very…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancing Atomic Friction: Penn and UC Merced’s New Breakthrough

By speeding up a real atomic force microscope and slowing down a simulation of one, the team has conducted the first atomic-scale experiments on friction at…

Life & Chemistry

Explore the Electromagnetic Spectrum: An Informative Infographic

It can be difficult in our everyday lives to appreciate the extraordinary range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic radiation—from…

Life & Chemistry

Touch Sensors in Bat Wings Enhance Flight Precision

A study published April 30 in Cell Reports shows, for the first time, that a unique array of sensory receptors in the wing provides feedback to a bat during…

Physics & Astronomy

Satellite Explosion Increases Space Debris Collision Risks

On 3 February 2015, the DMSP F13 satellite exploded in orbit producing over an estimated 100 pieces of space debris that were detected using radar. In…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Measure Record Distance to Ancient Galaxy

The team discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13 billion years in the past and determined its exact distance from Earth using the combined…

Physics & Astronomy

New Chip Architecture Sets Stage for Quantum Computing Advances

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest…

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