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Life & Chemistry

New Technique Can Locate Genes’ On-Off Switches

In large part, this highly regulated process of gene expression is what makes us fully functioning, complex beings, rather than a blob of like-minded cells.

Power and Electrical Engineering

High-Power LED Modules: Enhanced Flexibility and Performance

The innovative team of Omicron has developed new high-performance LED modules. The updated product in comparison to the previous version is characterized by…

Life & Chemistry

Old Parents’ Offspring: The Impact of Age on Reproduction

Reproduction at old age involves risks that may impact ones’ own life and may impose reduced biological fitness on the offspring.

Event News

UN Conference in Dresden: Innovations in Sustainability

The Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources of the University of the United Nations (UNU-FLORES), the Technische Universität…

Earth Sciences

New Report Reveals Hidden Greenhouse Emissions from Drained Wetlands

Former wetlands that have been drained and which are currently used for forestry and agriculture give off 11.4 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalents. That…

Life & Chemistry

MDC Researchers Uncover New Signaling Pathway in Embryonic Development

Now, Dr. Katharina Walentin and Professor Kai Schmidt-Ott of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have discovered a new molecular…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Neutron Stars: Insights from Gravitational Waves

Gravitational waves are generated when masses accelerate. The first indirect evidence for their existence was detected in 1974 when the binary pulsar PSR…

Physics & Astronomy

Venus Radar Insights: GBT’s Breakthrough Observations

Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and the powerful radar…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Materials for Safer Tooth Fillings Unveiled

Amalgam, also called silver amalgam filling, is a reasonably strong material, but the disadvantage of silver amalgam is that they contain mercury, which can…

Health & Medicine

MRSA Risk: How It Spreads and Lingers in Your Home

MRSA are strains of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus that are resistant to almost all antibiotics related to penicillin, known as the beta-lactams. Since…

Studies and Analyses

Hunting and Birdwatching Fuel Conservation Efforts in NY

This survey of conservation activity among rural landowners in Upstate New York considered a range of possible predictors such as gender, age, education,…

Communications Media

Product Placement in Music: CU Denver Study Insights

As branding and advertising creep into almost every facet of life, a new study from the University of Colorado Denver shows it's now making substantial inroads…

Life & Chemistry

Cellular Scissors Target HIV Virus with Precision Innovation

“Evolution has led to some of the most astonishing mechanisms for protecting organisms against their natural pathogens,” says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a…

Transportation and Logistics

LOGWERT adds to Heilbronn's status as a research hub

On March 1, 2015, the LOGWERT competence center in Heilbronn will be ready to start its work. The center brings together Fraunhofer IAO’s expertise in mobility…

Physics & Astronomy

Dust Disks Endure Intense UV Radiation Near Young Stars

Because these young clusters contain very hot stars that generate energetic, intense Ultraviolet radiation, such dust disks, the sites of planet formation…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Tool from University of Graz Optimizes Solar Energy Use

Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Steininger from the Institute of Economics and the Wegener Center of the University of Graz and his team have developed an analysis…

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