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Small Changes in Global Trade Impact Biodiversity Significantly

From the time humans began discovering and conquering new continents, they also started transporting animals and plants around the world and releasing them in…

Physics & Astronomy

New Study Reveals Seasonal Changes in Sun’s Activity

The Sun undergoes a type of seasonal variability with its activity waxing and waning over the course of nearly two years, according to a new study by a team of…

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University of Stuttgart Showcases Innovation at Hannover Fair 2015

In this year for the first time the University of Stuttgart is presenting its diverse range of pioneering research achievements at the Hannover Fair 2015, the…

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Weather-Resistant Functional Films for Outdoor Electronics

Flexible electronic components (e.g. thin film solar cells or bendable light sources and displays based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)) are opening…

Life & Chemistry

How Species Diversity Enhances Climate Resilience

The richness of species in an ecosystem is not only a source of joy for nature lovers; it also defines an ecosystem’s functional characteristics and…

Health & Medicine

No evidence that low-frequency magnetic fields accelerate development of Alzheimer's disease and ALS

Low-frequency alternating magnetic fields such as those generated by overhead power lines are considered a potential health risk because epidemiological…

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TÜV NORD and Fraunhofer IFF Present Cyber Inspection

Digital technologies such as mobile assistance systems, virtual engineering and augmented reality have many benefits for technical inspection. To this end, TÜV…

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Innovative DLC Coatings: Enhanced Wear Protection Unveiled

Especially suitable here are modified diamond-like carbon coatings (DLC), such as, for example, the SICON® coating developed at the Fraunhofer IST, which is a…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Strong Partnerships in Convion C50 SOFC Technology

Convion C50 SOFC system

Earth Sciences

Unlocking Earth’s History: How Rocks Reveal Their True Ages

Rocks do not loose their memory during Earth history but their true ages might be distorted: even under ultra high-temperature metamorphic conditions exceeding…

Materials Sciences

New Thermoelectric Materials Boost Efficiency Beyond 1.1 zT

In the 1960's, Peltier devices were primarily made from Bismuth-Telluride (Bi2Te3) or Antimony-Telluride (Sb2Te3) alloys and had a peak efficiency (zT) of 1.1,…

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Earth Sciences

New Link Between Calaveras and Hayward Faults Raises Quake Risk

University of California, Berkeley seismologists have proven that the Hayward Fault is essentially a branch of the Calaveras Fault that runs east of San Jose,…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Track Ultrafast Catalyst Creation Using X-Ray Laser

An international team has for the first time precisely tracked the surprisingly rapid process by which light rearranges the outermost electrons of a metal…

Physics & Astronomy

Cooling Massive Objects to Quantum Ground State Explained

However, the cooling limit is subjected to the quantum backaction, and ground state cooling is possible only in the resolved sideband limit, which requires the…

Business and Finance

Patterns of Company Mortality: How Long Do Firms Last?

Companies come and go for a variety of reasons. Some are bought, some merge with others, and some go out of business completely. There's no shortage of…

Physics & Astronomy

Nanoscale Speed Bump Regulates Plasmons for Faster Data Flow

Developed by a team of government and university researchers, including physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the…

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