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Life & Chemistry

Self-Healing Battery Electrode: A Breakthrough in Longevity

The secret is a stretchy polymer that coats the electrode, binds it together and spontaneously heals tiny cracks that develop during battery operation, said…

Life & Chemistry

Key Genes Linked to Childhood Asthma Attacks Identified

In the long term, these new findings are expected to help improve treatment options for the disease, which represents a high cost for families and society…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Maximizing Solar Power: Balancing Efficiency and Energy Loss

There is a trade-off in harvesting this light, so that solar cells are efficient in the infrared but waste much of the energy available from the more energetic…

Earth Sciences

Oxygen and Phosphorus: Key to Early Life on Earth

This led to a series of major changes in global biogeochemical cycles, as a team around Aivo Lepland of the Norwegian Geological Survey NGU reports in the…

Studies and Analyses

Human Error: Key Factor in Birth Asphyxia Study Findings

Findings from a 15-year study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, a journal of the Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and…

Science Education

With board games, it's how children count that counts

Teachers and parents like to use board games to teach skills that range from fair play to counting. When it comes to improving early number skills, a new…

Health & Medicine

Untreated HIV Carriers Spread Resistant Viruses: Key Insights

In order to prevent a spread of the resistant viruses increased efforts in prevention and early diagnosis of new infections are needed, as concluded by the…

Technology Offerings

New Device Enhances Railway Track Occupancy Detection

A very common method for determining the occupancy of a rail track are the so-called track circuits. This method involves applying a low voltage to a pair of…

Technology Offerings

Dental Implant – Optimised adhesion of gingiva through bio-nano-coating

Medicinal implants have become widely used in modern dentistry. While significant progress has been made to improve the adhesion of such dental implants to the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Storage Heaters Enhance Wind Power Efficiency in RWE Project

In the RWE Wind Heating project, the two companies have worked together with tekmar Regelsysteme GmbH to equip the storage heating systems in two neighborhoods…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Innovative Power Supply Systems for Deep Sea Factories

Located thousands of meters under water, the factories must operate reliably for several decades. However, there is still no empirical data about the high…

Awards Funding

Ultra-lightweight Star-Quad data cable from Draka Fileca for the aviation industry wins third prize …

The new Star-Quad data cable KL24 from Draka Fileca, Sainte-Geneviève/France, for the aviation industry is up to 25 percent lighter than previously used quad…

Studies and Analyses

Extensive Genetic Heterogeneity in Ovarian Cancer Revealed

One of the most comprehensive studies of genetic mutations in ovarian cancer was published today, demonstrating an unprecedented level of genetic variation…

Earth Sciences

Haiyan and 30W: Heavy Rains Devastate Philippines

So far, over 2300 people are confirmed to have been killed by the storm, and the number is likely to climb higher with many still missing and not all areas…

Physics & Astronomy

Penguin-Inspired Propulsion System Transforms Aerodynamics

That's all it took to inspire Flavio Noca, who at the time was a graduate student in Caltech's Aeronautics Department, and now teaches aerodynamics at the…

Earth Sciences

Philippines Faces Heavy Rainfall from Haiyan and 30W Storms

The combined rainfall from these tropical cyclones is shown in the TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation data (TMPA) analysis shown above…

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