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Power and Electrical Engineering

Wireless power transfer achieved at 5-meter distance

The way electronic devices receive their power has changed tremendously over the past few decades, from wired to non-wired. Users today enjoy all kinds of…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

East African honeybees are safe from invasive pests… for now

The invasive pests include including Nosema microsporidia and Varroa mites.

Environmental Conservation

Drought and fire in the Amazon lead to sharp increases in forest tree mortality

Ongoing deforestation and fragmentation of forests in the Amazon help create tinderbox conditions for wildfires in remnant forests, contributing to rapid and…

Materials Sciences

Surprising material could play role in saving energy

One strategy for addressing the world's energy crisis is to stop wasting so much energy when producing and using it, which can happen in coal-fired power…

Life & Chemistry

Synapses – stability in transformation

Synapses are the points of contact at which information is transmitted between neurons. Without them, we would not be able to form thoughts or remember things….

Information Technology

Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers

Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research…

Life & Chemistry

Two new species of yellow-shouldered bats endemic to the Neotropics

These two new additions to the genus Sturnira are part of a recent discovery of three bats hidden away in collections around the world, the third one still…

Awards Funding

University of Greifswald re-opens application for Rudolf-Stundl-Award for Textile Art

Rudolf Stundl (1897 – 1990), the initiator of artisan rug making in the Region of Western Pomerania, founded the award in 1985. The competition seeks to…

Awards Funding

Bio Particle Explorer gewinnt Innovationspreis

Die Jury würdigte die marktreife Erfindung mit dem dritten Platz und 500 Euro Preisgeld. Kriterien für die Auswahl waren das Innovationslevel, die Relevanz für…

Life & Chemistry

For Cells, Internal Stress Leads to Unique Shapes

Interested in how these cells individually take on their own unique forms, Caltech biologist Elliot Meyerowitz, postdoctoral scholar Arun Sampathkumar, and…

Health & Medicine

Researchers track down cause of eye mobility disorder

Imagine you cannot move your eyes up, and you cannot lift your upper eyelid. You walk through life with your head tilted upward so that your eyes look straight…

Environmental Conservation

Caribbean Green Turtle Fishery Faces Declining Catch Rates

A 20-year assessment of Nicaragua's legal, artisanal green sea turtle fishery has uncovered a stark reality: greatly reduced overall catch rates of turtles in…

Life & Chemistry

Stanford scientists develop 'playbook' for reverse engineering tissue

Now, in a feat of reverse tissue engineering, Stanford University researchers have begun to unravel the complex genetic coding that allows embryonic cells to…

Medical Engineering

Brown Fat Research Milestone Achieved with MRI Innovation

Researchers from Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based method to…

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Studies and Analyses

Sprifermin Reduces Cartilage Loss in Knee Osteoarthritis

Results published in Arthritis & Rheumatology, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), showed that sprifermin dosed at 100µg reduced loss of…

Studies and Analyses

Teen Distracted Driving: A Growing Public Health Concern

Motor vehicle crashes rank as the leading cause of teen deaths and in 2008, 16% of all distraction-related fatal automobile crashes involved drivers under 20…

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