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Machine Engineering

The world's hardest tree?

Siemens uses 3D printing processes to speed up gas turbine repair.For certain types of turbines, defective burner parts are simply reprinted, reducing repair…

Earth Sciences

Climate Change Increases Water Scarcity Risk by 40%

Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated…

Earth Sciences

Future Climate Impacts: Bridging Research Gaps Across Sectors

This interdisciplinary effort, employing extensive model inter-comparisons, allows research gaps to be identified, whilst producing the most robust possible…

Life & Chemistry

€2 Million Boost for Infection Research at Würzburg, Duisburg-Essen

What exactly happens there will be investigated by a new research group at the universities of Würzburg and Duisburg-Essen. They will receive around two…

Life & Chemistry

Glucose Metabolism: A New Approach to Combat Seasonal Flu

Reducing glucose metabolism dials down influenza viral infection in laboratory cell cultures, providing an entirely new approach for combating seasonal flu,…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble discovers water vapour venting from Jupiter’s moon Europa

Europa is already thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, making the moon one of the main targets in the search for habitable worlds away from…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Millisecond Pulsars: Insights from Freire and Tauris

In the scenario of Paulo Freire and Thomas Tauris, a massive white dwarf star accretes matter and angular momentum from a normal companion star and grows…

Physics & Astronomy

Swirls in remnants of Big Bang may hold clues to universe’s infancy

The scientists observed twisting patterns in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background—light that last interacted with matter very early in the…

Health & Medicine

Exercise in Middle Age Shields Against Muscle Weakness

A cross-sectional study by investigators from Tokyo University has found that exercising in middle age is a protective factor against sarcopenia and effective…

Studies and Analyses

Study Reveals Lower Survival Rates After Second Hip Fractures

Research presented today at the 4th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting showed that second hip fractures are more deadly than first hip fractures. Based in Hong…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking tumor-associated macrophages decreased glioblastoma's growth & extended survival in mice

An experimental drug that targets macrophages, a type of immune cells, in the microenvironment surrounding the lethal brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme…

Environmental Conservation

Global E-Waste Map: Insights on National Volumes and Flows

By 2017, all of the year's end-of-life refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products with a battery or electrical cord…

Environmental Conservation

Deep-Sea Corals Reveal Major Shift in Pacific Ecosystem

Long-lived deep-sea corals preserve evidence of a major shift in the open Pacific Ocean ecosystem since around 1850, according to a study by researchers at the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough Catalyst Splits Water for Clean Hydrogen Energy

Researchers from the University of Houston have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight, potentially creating a clean and…

Life & Chemistry

PhiX174 Virus Unveils DNA Insertion Mechanism in E. Coli

The researchers discovered the mechanism in the phiX174 virus, which attacks E. coli bacteria. The virus, called a bacteriophage because it infects bacteria,…

Environmental Conservation

Study Reveals Climate Change Threatens Caribou Habitat

Reindeer, from Northern Europe or Asia, are often thought of as a domesticated animal, one that may pull Santa's sled. Caribou, similar in appearance but…

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