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Materials Sciences

Graphene Faces New Competition in High-Tech Innovations

A new argument has just been added to the growing case for graphene being bumped off its pedestal as the next big thing in the high-tech world by the…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Terra Captures Hurricane Marie Over Socorro Island

On Aug. 25 at 18:20 UTC (2:20 p.m. EDT) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured Hurricane…

Earth Sciences

Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited thanks to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

The work, performed at the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, will have a significant impact on our…

Life & Chemistry

Sorting Cells With Sound Waves: A Breakthrough in Bioengineering

Researchers from MIT, Pennsylvania State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as…

Event News

Enhancing IT Security in Today’s Digital Society

In the age of big data, industry 4.0 and cloud computing, IT security for enterprises and consumers is growing ever more important.

Health & Medicine

Dynamic Nanoparticles: Unlocking New Applications in Innovation

Kit Lam and colleagues from UC Davis and other institutions have created dynamic nanoparticles (NPs) that could provide an arsenal of applications to…

Health & Medicine

New Tech Detects Tiny Strains in Tissues Before Injuries

“Tendons are constantly stretching as muscles pull on them, and bones also bend or compress as we carry out everyday activities,” said senior investigator…

Health & Medicine

New Antibacterial Method Tackles Tough Skin Infections

Like a protective tent over a colony of harmful bacteria, biofilms make the treatment of skin infections especially difficult. Microorganisms protected in a…

Materials Sciences

New Atomically Seamless Junctions Set Semiconductor Standards

The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless…

Life & Chemistry

Gene Therapy Targets Rare Disease MPS I at Its Source

Treating the rare disease MPS I is a challenge. MPS I, caused by the deficiency of a key enzyme called IDUA, eventually leads to the abnormal accumulation of…

Awards Funding

Six Innovative Projects Shortlisted for European Health Award 2014

Six cross-border health projects have now been short-listed for the prestigious European Health Award 2014. They cover topics such as management of psychotic…

Awards Funding

EU Funds Boost Startups in Smart Cities and E-Learning

The scheme targets businesses active in the fields of Smart City Services, Social Connected TV, Pervasive Gaming and E-Learning. The aim of the project is to…

Life & Chemistry

Primate Insights: Uncovering the Roots of Human Altruism

Scientists have long been searching for the factor that determines why humans often behave so selflessly. It was known that humans share this tendency with…

Physics & Astronomy

New Study Explores What Lit Up the Early Universe

The study published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by UCL cosmologists Dr Andrew Pontzen and Dr Hiranya Peiris (both UCL Physics & Astronomy),…

Physics & Astronomy

Stunning New Insights on Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view…

Event News

Understanding the brain—neuroscientists meet in Göttingen

From September 3rd until 5th, 2014, the international Bernstein Conference 2014 will be held at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

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