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Enzymes Lead the Way: Water-Free Innovations in Chemistry

Enzymes are large biological molecules that catalyse thousands of different chemical reactions that are essential for all life, from converting food into…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Uncovers Fungal Signaling for Fungicide Innovation

Exeter scientists have now shown that signalling organelles, known as 'early endosomes' act as long distance messengers in the fungi. They travel rapidly along…

Health & Medicine

Breast Implants Linked to Rare Cancer: New Study Insights

The researchers conclude that breast implants can cause a new subtype of the rare yet malignant lymphoma known as ALCL. The research results have been…

Life & Chemistry

Basel Scientists Accelerate Cell Migration With New Insights

Cells migrate by connecting their cytoskeleton – a network made up of proteins – to adhesion molecules which in turn get in contact with the surrounding…

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Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education

In recent years, there has been increasing discussion of the efficiency of university teaching and the proper way of imparting professional teaching…

Information Technology

New Silicon Technique Enhances Detection in Telecommunications

For decades, silicon has been the foundation of the microelectronics revolution and, owing to its excellent optical properties in the near- and mid-infrared…

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Internat. conference “Obama and Transnational American Studies” in Mainz / Keynote by Dr. Auma Obama

The American Studies division at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) plays host to the international conference entitled “Obama and Transnational…

Life & Chemistry

Innovative Treatments for HIV-Leishmaniasis Co-Infection

The international research & development (R&D) consortium, AfriCoLeish, formed by six research organizations from East Africa and Europe, has launched a Phase…

Physics & Astronomy

New Microscope Captures Slow-Motion Movies of Nanostructures

Modern nanotechnology does what nature has always been able to do: Systematic structuring on the nanometer length scale – the billionth part of a meter – to…

Life & Chemistry

Darwin’s Insights on Invasive Species: New Study Revealed

The EIH idea is this: Species from regions with deep and diverse evolutionary histories are more likely to become successful invaders in regions with less…

Physics & Astronomy

New Approach to On-Chip Quantum Computing Breakthroughs

Commercial devices capable of encrypting information in unbreakable codes exist today, thanks to recent quantum optics advances, especially the generation of…

Medical Engineering

'Smart' bandage emits phosphorescent glow for healing below

Inspired by a desire to help wounded soldiers, an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Conor L. Evans at the Wellman…

Environmental Conservation

Nanoparticles Rapidly Accumulate in Wetland Sediments

A Duke University team has found that nanoparticles called single-walled carbon nanotubes accumulate quickly in the bottom sediments of an experimental wetland…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Insights on Rechargeable Battery Failures Uncovered

Michigan Technological University researcher Reza Shahbazian-Yassar has made it his business to better map the ion’s long, strange trip—and perhaps make it…

Physics & Astronomy

Hide & Seek: Sterile Neutrinos Remain Elusive

The Daya Bay Collaboration, an international group of scientists studying the subtle transformations of subatomic particles called neutrinos, is publishing its…

Environmental Conservation

New approach can predict impact of climate change on species that can’t get out of the way

Plants and trees are also feeling the change, but they can’t move out of the way. Researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science…

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