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Hornet HPC System: Ready for Extreme-Scale Computing Challenges

Supercomputer Hornet of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is ready for extreme-scale computing challenges. The newly installed HPC system…

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NIT Joins Hamburg Dialog for Industrie 4.0 Innovation

Industrie 4.0 stands for the fourth industrial revolution and deals with the development of increasing autonomy of production processes. Major progress in…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Hand Hygiene Issues in Operating Rooms

A new study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, is attracting a great deal of attention in the healthcare and research community. The study shows…

Earth Sciences

Citizen Scientists Create Accurate Global Forest Maps

New maps of global forest cover from IIASA’s Geo-Wiki team provide a more accurate view of global forests. The maps were published in the journal Remote…

Studies and Analyses

BMW ActiveE Tests Achieve 450,000 Km in Real-World EV Range

75 commuters in and around Leipzig used a BMW ActiveE electric car on a daily basis for three months each, covering about 450,000 km between May 2013 and…

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Low-Vibration Sample Holder Enhances Cryo Fluorescence Imaging

The invention relates to a sample holder to be used in cryo fluorescence microscopes or to simply and cost effectively upgrade a room temperature fluorescence microscope. The holder solves existing problems regarding thermal and mechanical stability of the sample and allows for a localization accuracy of a few hundred Angstroms.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Trojan Transit Rolling Out

UALR will roll out a new Trojan Transit system on Monday, March 30, designed to enhance safety and sustainability initiatives and help students and employees…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Shake-Up

For living organisms proteins are an essential part of their body system and are needed to thrive. In recent years, a certain class of proteins has challenged…

Environmental Conservation

Coorong Fish Hedge Their Bets for Survival

Published in the journal Biology Letters, University of Adelaide research has shown that within this single species of fish there are some individuals which…

Materials Sciences

ORNL-Led Team Demonstrates Desalination with Nanoporous Graphene Membrane

Now, a team of experimentalists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an energy-efficient desalination technology…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Two Most Destructive Termite Species Forming Superswarms in South Florida

In an article published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of University of Florida entomologists has documented that the Asian and Formosan subterranean…

Life & Chemistry

How did the chicken cross the sea?

It may sound like the makings of a joke, but answering the question of how chickens crossed the sea may soon provide more than just a punch line.

Physics & Astronomy

Theory of the strong interaction verified

The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and…

Information Technology

Engineers develop new methods to speed up simulations in computational grand challenge

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new family of methods to significantly increase the speed of time-resolved numerical…

Physics & Astronomy

Dark matter even darker than once thought

Astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied how dark matter in clusters of…

Environmental Conservation

Greener Industry If Environmental Authorities Change Strategy

‘Since all people suffer from air pollution and global climate change, our research is relevant to everybody. But our findings are particularly important to…

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