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Physics & Astronomy

NOAA's DSCOVR going to a 'far out' orbit

The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, spacecraft will orbit between Earth and the sun, observing and providing advanced warning of extreme emissions…

Materials Sciences

'Bulletproof' battery: Kevlar membrane for safer, thinner lithium rechargeables

The innovation is an advanced barrier between the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery.

Life & Chemistry

Researchers Identify Key Genes Behind Severe Ovarian Cancer

In the battle against ovarian cancer, UNC School of Medicine researchers have created the first mouse model of the worst form of the disease and found a…

Health & Medicine

MRIs Reveal Brain Activity Links to Emotion Regulation in Autism

Tantrums, irritability, self-injury, depression, anxiety. These symptoms are associated with autism, but they're not considered core symptoms of the disorder….

Health & Medicine

New Framework for Future Resilience Studies in Mainz Research

Researchers at the Research Center Translational Neurosciences of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have advanced a generalized concept as…

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering Cold Higgs: Insights from Nobel Laureates

When François Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize, a scientific breakthrough was honored that could hardly be more spectacular: born from…

Life & Chemistry

Inhibiting CDK6: A Key to Preventing Leukemic Relapse

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are normally inactive, i.e. quiescent. When new blood cells are needed, for example to replace blood that has been lost, HSCs…

Life & Chemistry

Fruit Flies Use Smell to Find Healthy Antioxidants

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and the University of Lund, Sweden, now show that vinegar flies are able to…

Life & Chemistry

Hydrogen conversion by the enzyme ‘Hydrogenase’

X-ray crystallography is still the method of choice to determine the atomic structure of large biological macromolecules. One of the major drawbacks of the…

Life & Chemistry

Solid or liquid – the particle size matters

Whether tiny particles in the air, so-called aerosol nanoparticles, are solid or liquid, is of great importance to atmospheric and climate scientists. The…

Earth Sciences

Winters in Siberian permafrost regions have warmed since millennia

The researchers claim that this is due to the changing position of the Earth relative to the sun and is amplified by the rising greenhouse-gas emissions since…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Introduce Macrosystems Approach to Study Stream Ecology

Kansas State University scientists and collaborators have developed a new method for studying a variety of streams — including tropical, prairie or forested…

Materials Sciences

Improvements in Transistors Will Make Flexible Plastic Computers a Reality

The scientists reviewed the latest developments in research on photoactive organic field-effect transistors; devices that incorporate organic semi-conductors,…

Trade Fair News

Rugged cellular router offers Broadband wireless connectivity

• Integrated LTE Modem with rollback to 2G and 3G networks for reliability• Dual SIM card slot for service provider redundancy and automatic failover• Rugged…

Earth Sciences

Stardust on Ocean Floor Shows Gold and Uranium Alchemy in Stars is Much Less Frequent Than Expected

Stellar explosions such as supernovae or star collisions emit extremely bright light and vast amounts of energy and heavy matter. Half of the heavy elements in…

Life & Chemistry

Hierarchically-Porous Polymers with Fast Absorption

Professor Myungeun Seo and his research team from the Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology at KAIST has developed a method to form micropores of less…

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