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Life & Chemistry

A gene for brain size – only found in humans

About 99 percent of human genes are shared with chimpanzees. Only the small remainder sets us apart. However, we have one important difference: The brain of…

Life & Chemistry

Navigating Genetic Variation: Strategies for Stability

The information encoded in the DNA of an organism is not sufficient to determine the expression pattern of genes. This fact has been known even before the…

Trade Fair News

Siemens Unveils Cost-Cutting Innovations for Offshore Wind

New advancements in wind turbine technology
Major breakthrough in reducing grid access costs
Innovative offshore logistics concepts for turbine maintenance

Hannover Messe

Boosting Industry Productivity Through Digitalization Insights

Technologies and products for the industry from the comprehensive electrification, automation and digitalization portfolio
End-to-end automation for the…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra-Thin Nanowires Can Trap Electron ‘Twisters’ That Disrupt Superconductors

To keep supercurrents flowing at top speed, Johns Hopkins scientists have figured out how to constrain troublesome vortices by trapping them within extremely…

Life & Chemistry

Brain’s Decision-Making Mirrors Turing’s Enigma Code Method

When making simple decisions, neurons in the brain apply the same statistical trick used by Alan Turing to help break Germany’s Enigma code during World War…

Life & Chemistry

Carnivorous Plant’s Tiny Genome Holds Big Surprises

Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages.

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Rasa3 Boosts Plavix Effectiveness Against Platelets

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have found that the blood platelet protein Rasa3 is critical to the success of the common anti-platelet drug Plavix,…

Environmental Conservation

First Direct Observation of Carbon Dioxide’s Increasing Greenhouse Effect at the Earth’s Surface

Scientists have observed an increase in carbon dioxide’s greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface for the first time. The researchers, led by scientists from…

Life & Chemistry

Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Threatens Madagascar’s Endemic Species

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and TU Braunschweig, together with international colleagues, are therefore proposing an…

Environmental Conservation

Climate-Warmed Leaves Shift Lake Ecosystems, Dartmouth Study Reveals

The study is one of the first to rigorously explore climate warming's impact on “ecological subsidies,” or the exchange of nutrients and organisms between…

Life & Chemistry

Turquoise Killifish Genome Now Available for Aging Research

FLI researchers together with colleagues from the Clemson University Genomics and Computational Laboratory (USA) have now made the genome of N. furzeri…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Using 'Fuzzy Logic' to Optimize Hybrid Solar/Battery Systems

How did fuzzy logic help a group of researchers in Tunisia and Algeria create an ideal photovoltaic system that obeys the supply-and-demand principle and its…

Physics & Astronomy

Optical Nanoantennas Transform NEMS Lab-on-a-Chip Technology

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in the air and even…

Studies and Analyses

Long Sleepers at Higher Stroke Risk: New Study Insights

The study found that people who slept more than eight hours a night, called long sleepers, were 46 percent more likely to have a stroke than people who slept…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists develop a novel method to suppress malaria parasite’s virulence genes, break the code of its immune evasion

Up to one million people – mainly pregnant woman and young children – are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes the most…

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