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Siemens Unveils Next-Gen Traffic Management Controllers

The more complex traffic situations are at urban intersections, the greater the need for more intelligent control solutions. At Intertraffic Amsterdam 2014,…

Life & Chemistry

Automatic Tracking of Biological Particles in Cell Microscopy

In order to track the movements of biological particles in a cell, scientists at Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center have developed a…

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Key Technologies Transforming Robot-Assisted Cleaning

Seventy percent of professional building cleaning work consists of cleaning floors and disposing of waste. Demographic change is one reason why less and less…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Gray Seals’ Hearing Abilities: New Research Insights

Researchers from the Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo) are…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Unlock Industrial Robotics with Open-Source ROS Software

The open-source “Robot Operating System” (ROS) offers a host of highly developed software components that can be efficiently employed also for industrial…

Power and Electrical Engineering

PRACE: Your Mobile Assistant for Skill Development in Production

The concept follows the master-apprentice principle: learning by demonstration. The aim is to enable the worker to quickly and easily impart new skills to the…

Physics & Astronomy

New Equation Sheds Light on Nanofoam Behavior

The scientific team, made up of researchers from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spanish National Research Council) – CSIC, the…

Physics & Astronomy

Plugging the hole in Hawking’s black hole theory

For decades physicists across the globe have been trying to figure out the mysteries of black holes – those fascinating monstrous entities that have such…

Life & Chemistry

Missing Hormone Discovered in Birds: Insights on Leptin’s Role

These physiological gymnastics would usually be influenced by leptin, the hormone that regulates body fat storage, metabolism and appetite. However, leptin has…

Information Technology

Operating “Green” Power Plants More Efficiently

The solution consists of a software platform through which participating companies can work together efficiently and confidentially.

Information Technology

Unlocking Parallel Programming: Embrace Multi-Core Innovations

Computer chips have stopped getting faster: The regular performance improvements we've come to expect are now the result of chipmakers' adding more cores, or…

Earth Sciences

Famous paintings help study the Earth’s past atmosphere

In particular, the paintings reveal that ash and gas released during major volcanic eruptions scatter the different colours of sunlight, making sunsets appear…

Health & Medicine

New SLIM Technique Reveals Insights Into Human Neural Networks

Using spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) techniques developed by Gabriel Popescu, director of the lab, the researchers were able to show for the…

Studies and Analyses

Children Learn Aggression from Violent Video Games, Study Finds

The effect is the same regardless of age, gender or culture. Douglas Gentile, an associate professor of psychology and lead author of the study published in JAMA Pediatrics…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Nerve Cell Complexity from C. Elegans Research

OMRF scientist Kenneth Miller, Ph.D., studied the function of a common protein (known as CaM Kinase II) in tiny roundworms called C. elegans. His research…

Earth Sciences

Paleontologists assemble giant turtle bone from fossil discoveries made centuries apart

That surprising puzzle assembly occurred in the fall of 2012, when Jason Schein, assistant curator of natural history at the New Jersey State Museum, visited…

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