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Life & Chemistry

Molecular Electronics Breakthrough: Future of DNA-Based Circuits

In a paper published today in Nature Nanotechnology, an international group of scientists announced the most significant breakthrough in a decade toward…

Health & Medicine

Dynamic Duo: Tiny Crystals Target Crime and Cancer

Tiny rod-like single crystals that act as miniature dual-color barcodes have been synthesized by A*STAR researchers and co-workers. The researchers have…

Materials Sciences

Seed First, Heat Later: Enhancing Magnetic Recording Stability

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is a new process that realizes the three goals of magnetic recording — readability, writeability and stability. A*STAR…

Physics & Astronomy

Plasmonic Devices: Merging Quantum Effects With Optics

Plasmonic devices combine the ‘super speed’ of optics with the ‘super small’ of microelectronics. These devices exhibit quantum effects and show promise as…

Life & Chemistry

New Nanodevice Enhances Cancer Treatment Monitoring

Methotrexate has been used for many years to treat certain cancers, among other diseases, because of its ability to block the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase…

Life & Chemistry

Microbes Unveil New Antibiotic Insights: Nisin and Beyond

The team focused on a class of compounds that includes dozens with antibiotic properties. The most famous of these is nisin, a natural product in milk that can…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Navigate Using Chemical Trails: A New Insight

In following these chemical trails, cells steer based on minute differences in concentrations of chemicals between one end of the cell and the other. “Cells…

Science Education

Floating University: Antarctic Training with Polarstern Cruise

The participants come from international courses at the University of Bremen and the POLMAR graduate school at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre…

Physics & Astronomy

National Synchrotron Light Source II Achieves 'First Light'

The brightest synchrotron light source in the world has delivered its first x-ray beams. The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at the U.S….

Physics & Astronomy

Comet Siding Spring’s Close Pass by Mars: A Stunning Encounter

On that date the comet passed by Mars at approximately 87,000 miles (about one-third the distance between Earth and the Moon). At that time, the comet and Mars…

Environmental Conservation

How Latitude Affects Invasive Species Impact on Ecosystems

“When looking at a continental scale invasion in particular, we can’t assume that the invasion is uniform across the region because of latitudinal differences…

Materials Sciences

High-Tech Labels with Temperature Memory for Cold Chain Monitoring

A new monitoring solution has now been developed by one of BAM’s research teams: plastic labels with a temperature memory.

Trade Fair News

New Manufacturing Processes for Fiber-Reinforced Medical Products

The use of thermoplastic materials for such composites has opened up new options for manufacturing parts such as adaptable micro-implants for neurosurgery or…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Electrospinning Methods for Vascular Prostheses Production

The invention concerns a process for the production of bifurcated vascular prostheses by the polymer-processing technology electrospinning.

Corporate News

Siemens Launches Modernized Continuous Caster at Posco

Siemens Metals Technologies has modernized and put into operation a single-strand continuous caster at Pohang Iron and Steel Co. Ltd. (Posco) in Pohang, Korea,…

Life & Chemistry

Engineered Bio Circuits: Advancements in Biological Computing

Bio-engineers are working on the development of biological computers with the aim of designing small circuits made from biological material that can be…

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