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Power and Electrical Engineering

ASU, Georgia Tech Boost Solar Cell Efficiency with Crystals

Did you know that crystals form the basis for the penetrating icy blue glare of car headlights and could be fundamental to the future in solar energy…

Awards Funding

Bird-of-Paradise-Inspired Folding Mechanism Unveiled

An innovative folding mechanism without joints and hinges: Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers from the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the…

Machine Engineering

EU Supports Development of Ultra-Short-Pulse Disk Lasers

The development of ultra-short-pulse disk lasers (UKP lasers) with a high midrange power is being substantially supported by the EU for three years. The…

Earth Sciences

How to Manage Nature's Runaway Freight Trains

These runaway freight trains made of rock, mud, and water can barrel down mountain channels with little or no warning and take out roads, homes, and anything…

Studies and Analyses

Ultrasound vs. X-Rays in ICU: Safer and Effective Diagnosis

“We found that the use of ultrasound to diagnose patients greatly reduced radiation exposure for patients without negatively affecting their health,” said…

Health & Medicine

Nanofibrous Conduit for Long-Segment Sciatic Nerve Repair

In addition, a similar problem, i.e., stimulation of the immune system, will be encountered in transplantation of allografts or xenografts. Some studies used…

Health & Medicine

Data shows VisionGate's 3D imaging platform accurately detects lung cancer in sputum

VisionGate, Inc., a company developing a revolutionary non-invasive test for the early detection of lung cancer, today reported clinical data showing that its…

Life & Chemistry

Cell Nucleus Protein Regulates Daily Body Temperature Rhythms

For nearly 300 years, investigators have known that body temperature follows a circadian, or 24-hour, rhythm, with a peak during the day and a low at night….

Studies and Analyses

Smart Neurons: Dendrites Capable of Complex Computation

The study, published today (Sunday) in Nature and carried out by researchers based at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research at UCL, the MRC Laboratory…

Physics & Astronomy

New Copper Phthalocyanine Material Boosts Quantum Computing

The pigment, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc), which is similar to the light harvesting section of the chlorophyll molecule, is a low-cost organic semiconductor…

Life & Chemistry

Surprising Sandpiper Feeding Behavior in Bay of Fundy

The behaviour of semipalmated sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) feeding during low tide in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, surprised Guy Beauchamp, an…

Life & Chemistry

UNC neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain

But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these dendrites do more than relay information from one neuron to the…

Life & Chemistry

International collaboration finds 11 new Alzheimer's genes to target for drug discovery

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers played a key role in the largest international Alzheimer's disease genetics collaboration to date,…

Information Technology

Astronomy Meets Computer Science: HITS Launches Astroinformatics Group

The new junior research group “Astroinformatics” has recently commenced its activities at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). It will…

Environmental Conservation

Transforming Wastewater Into Resource: Namibia’s Sanitation Innovation

The project team of CuveWaters, led by ISOE – the Institute for Social-Ecological Research, has succeeded in turning wastewater into a resource in this most…

Physics & Astronomy

Tin Innovation: Accelerating Data Processing in Chip Design

To process and save data more and more quickly, to build even smaller and more powerful chips: these are the goals pursued by numerous research teams around…

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