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Earth Sciences

Understanding Abrupt Climate Change: Insights From Ghana’s Lake Bosumtwi

In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, co-author on an NAU assistant professor Nicholas McKay analyzes core samples from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana. The…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Uncover How C. Difficile Disrupts Gut Health

Sometimes, science means staying awake for two days straight.

Health & Medicine

New Strategy Discovered to Fight Tropical Parasitic Disease

Research led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists has identified a potential target in the quest to develop a more effective treatment for…

Life & Chemistry

How Proteins Coordinate Cell Division for Accurate Outcomes

Like a surgeon separating conjoined twins, cells have to be careful to get everything just right when they divide in two. Otherwise, the resulting daughter…

Physics & Astronomy

Searching for Signs of a Force from the 'Dark Side' in Particle Collisions at RHIC

Scientists searching for signs of elusive “dark photons” as an explanation for an anomaly in a groundbreaking physics experiment have nearly ruled out their…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft completes first deep dip campaign

“During normal science mapping, we make measurements between an altitude of about 150 km and 6,200 km (93 miles and 3,853 miles) above the surface,” said Bruce…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Memories: How Hosts Shape Bacterial Metabolism

Bacteria are known to specifically adapt to host environments. Understanding these adaptation mechanisms is crucial for the development of effective…

Technology Offerings

Resonant Material Processing with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses

The invention relates to the usage of a tunable, resonant electromagnetic field for both, the targeted fabrication of structures with dimensions smaller than the used beam diameter and the targeted fabrication of ultra small particles. Therefor the electromagnetic field that is created by an ultra short laser pulse on the surface of an object is superposed with an external field to achieve a resonance rise specific to the processed material.

Corporate News

Siemens Unveils New Gas Turbine Burner Test Center in Berlin

Siemens has commissioned its Clean Energy Center, a new burner test center for gas turbines in Ludwigsfelde near Berlin. Combustion processes in gas turbines…

Awards Funding

Honorary Award of Network for Women in Physics – The KIF-Prize 2014 for Dr. Anne Nielsen

The KIF-prize is awarded annually to create attention on the significance of women in the field of physics. The prize shall contribute to make women physicists…

Life & Chemistry

New Mitochondrial Labeling Strategy to Combat Obesity

A new cellular labeling strategy gives researchers an efficient tool for studying the development of tissue that could help prevent the onset of obesity and…

Life & Chemistry

Fungi Harvesting Algae: A Sustainable Biotech Innovation

Waste biomass from fungal fermentation processes could be used to bind to and harvest microalgae being used in other biotechnology applications. A*STAR…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Pillar Patterns Create Extremely Repellent Surfaces

A computational technique to analyze how water vapor condenses on a surface patterned with an array of tiny pillars has been co-developed by an A*STAR…

Life & Chemistry

TBBPA: Examining Its Safety as a Flame Retardant

Tetrabromobisphenol A, or TBBPA, is a useful flame retardant used in a variety of consumer products, including electrical equipment and household furniture….

Health & Medicine

New Breathalyzer Device for Early Lung Cancer Detection

Researchers from Chongqing University in China have developed a high sensitive fluorescence-based sensor device that can rapidly identify cancer related…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping the Epigenome: Insights from 100+ Tissue Types

Researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health Common Fund’s Roadmap Epigenomics Program ( http://commonfund.nih.gov/epigenomics/index  ) have…

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