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Fuel Cells and Energy Technology at the Shared Stand of „ENERGY SAXONY e.V.“ at Hannover Fair 2014

Along with the presentation of its core competences, covering inter alia the power-to-gas and smart grid technology, the DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH (DBI)…

Studies and Analyses

Young Non-Academics Use Brain Stimulants More Than Students

Students hope this consumption will improve their exam performance, while their non-academic contemporaries seek primarily to remain awake for longer. These…

Technology Offerings

Plasma Process Enhances Collector Foils for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Lithium-Ion-batteries often comprise collector foils made of chemically pre-treated aluminium. The chemical pre-treatment of such aluminium collector foils can be superseded by a plasma treatment of raw aluminium. More general, the patented method allows reduction of the contact resistance of different metal substrates.

Information Technology

Canadian Firm’s New Computer: Is It Truly Quantum?

The Canadian technology company of the same name is advertising the machine as a quantum computer. However, whether or not the machine does in fact use quantum…

Earth Sciences

NASA Satellite Tracks Tropical Cyclone Gillian’s Decline

During the week of March 10, Tropical Cyclone Gillian formed in the northern Gulf of Carpentaria and made a brief landfall on the Western Cape York Peninsula,…

Health & Medicine

New therapeutic target discovered for Alzheimer's disease

A team of scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, the Medical University of South Carolina and San Diego-based American…

Earth Sciences

New Airborne GPS Tech Enhances Weather Tracking Precision

GPS technology has broadly advanced science and society’s ability to pinpoint locations and motion, from driving directions to tracking ground motions during…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Links Circadian Clocks to Chronic Lung Diseases

Internal biological timers (circadian clocks) are found in almost all living things driving diverse processes such as sleep/wake cycles in humans to leaf…

Earth Sciences

Clogged Magma Linked to Earthquake Warning Signs at Volcano

The research team studied Augustine Volcano in Alaska which erupted in 2006 and found that precursory earthquakes were caused by a block in the lava flow.

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Algorithm Boosts Small Wind Turbine Efficiency

According to estimates by the WWEA-World Wind Energy Association, the level of development of the mini wind energy industry is not the same as that of the wind…

Earth Sciences

Glacier Insights: Unveiling Climate Change’s Impact on Our Future

Lewis Owen has been scraping out icy fragments of history's truth from one of the most glaciated regions on Earth for the past 25 years.His frequent excursions…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Stretchable Antenna for Wearable Health Monitoring

“Many researchers – including our lab – have developed prototype sensors for wearable health systems, but there was a clear need to develop antennas that can…

Life & Chemistry

New Cancer Drug Breakthrough: Capturing Leukemic Stem Cells

In a recent study published in Nature Methods, the scientists involved describe how they succeeded in identifying two new chemical compounds that allow to…

Hannover Messe

Sorption Energy Storage: Innovative Solutions for Heating and Cooling

In many industrialized countries, city skylines are dominated by imposing glass façades and skyscrapers made of concrete and steel. There is a drawback to…

Environmental Conservation

Ants plant tomorrow's rainforest

For the regeneration of these degraded areas, seed dispersal of forest trees plays a crucial role but is still poorly understood. Most tree species are…

Science Education

New Cluster Policies Boost Innovation for Central Europe SMEs

Clusters are an essential trigger in innovation policy to make European SME more competitive.

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