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Materials Sciences

Nanoparticles: Polymer knots with silicon hearts

Protein-based drugs show promising activity against many hard-to-treat targets. Getting these biomolecules past the body’s numerous defenses, however, requires…

Architecture & Construction

DuPont™ SentryGlas® combines strength and aesthetics to light up the landscape

A combination of coloured fabric from Sefar and DuPont™ SentryGlas® have created and aesthetically pleasing and structurally robust glazing design that really…

Health & Medicine

New research gives answers on the relationship between chronic illness and food insecurity

Previous research has shown that food insecurity rates are highest among low-income households, in households reliant on social assistance, reporting…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Hydrogen Fuel From Sunlight

In the search for clean, green sustainable energy sources to meet human needs for generations to come, perhaps no technology matches the ultimate potential of…

Health & Medicine

Toward an early diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease

But as scientists have already discovered, activity in certain areas of the cerebral cortex is affected even in the early stages of the disease. Professor…

Life & Chemistry

Mutations in a gene that impacts immune function increase susceptibility to prostate cancer

A team of researchers led by Janet Stanford, Ph.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has discovered that mutations in the gene BTNL2, which encodes a…

Physics & Astronomy

A completely new atomic crystal dynamic of the white pigment titanium dioxide discovered

The results, which could be of importance for a variety of applications, have been published in the current issue of Science Magazine. Titanium dioxide is an…

Materials Sciences

New nanoparticles make solar cells cheaper to manufacture

The U of A discovery, several years in the making, is an important step forward in making solar power more accessible to parts of the world that are off the…

Life & Chemistry

Inflammatory protein converts glioblastoma cells into most aggressive version

A prominent protein activated by inflammation is the key instigator that converts glioblastoma multiforme cells to their most aggressive, untreatable form and…

Earth Sciences

NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet

The canyon has the characteristics of a winding river channel and is at least 460 miles (750 kilometers) long, making it longer than the Grand Canyon. In some…

Life & Chemistry

Whales Darken With Sun Exposure: New Research Insights

Research published today in Nature journal, Scientific Reports, reveals that not only do some species of whales get darker with sun exposure, incurring DNA…

Health & Medicine

How Sunlight Affects DNA and Triggers Autoimmune Reactions

Scientists of the University Hospital Bonn, Germany have now discovered which signaling pathway of the innate immune system promotes autoimmune symptoms…

Event News

Non-Destructive Photon Manipulation: Taming Light’s Schrödinger Cats

Licht breitet sich einerseits als elektromagnetische Welle aus – das zeigt sich z.B. an Interferenz-Erscheinungen; andererseits gibt es seine Energie nur in…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Delivery Service Boosts Cilia Assembly Efficiency

For proper assembly and function of cilia, they need to be supplied with the appropriate building blocks. Scientists at the MPI of Biochemistry (MPIB) in…

Technology Offerings

Temperature-Independent High Precision Resistor and Expansion Sensor (nanoNi@C®)

A combination of metal and carbon layers enables to combine the two main characteristics “high expansion sensitivity” and “temperature-independence of the…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Parasitic Worm Genome Reveal Drug Targets

Researchers have identified five enzymes that are essential to the survival of a parasitic worm that infects livestock worldwide and is a great threat to…

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