All News

Physics & Astronomy

New Theory Sheds Light on Mysterious Dark Matter

This proposal, which endows dark matter particles with a rare form of electromagnetism, has been strengthened by a detailed analysis performed by a pair of…

Environmental Conservation

Shared Electric Vehicle Fleet: Innovations from Fraunhofer IAO

Imagine a number of different companies sharing a single fleet of electric vehicles… Fraunhofer IAO and eight project partners are busy working out just how…

Awards Funding

Fraunhofer IIS Wins Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize for 3D Sensor

This prize has been awarded by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft every year since 1978 in recognition of outstanding scientific work by members of its staff leading…

Health & Medicine

Biodegradable Implant Reduces Radiation Side Effects in Prostate Cancer

Several years ago, Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center became the first center in the United States to test an Israeli-invented device…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Sheds Light on Earth’s System Stability Debate

The Earth, with its core-driven magnetic field, oceans of liquid water, dynamic climate and abundant life is arguably the most complex system in the known…

Life & Chemistry

Micro-RNA’s Role in Wood Formation Uncovered

The research, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of June 10, describes how one strand of micro-RNA reduced by more…

Health & Medicine

Antihistamines Linked to Adverse Outcomes in Pregnancy

The findings, the first to link antihistamine use to adverse pregnancy outcomes, are important because babies born before 37 weeks often are hospitalized…

Life & Chemistry

Bridge Species Fuel Tropical Biodiversity Engine, New Study Reveals

New research sheds light on how that pattern came about. Furthermore, it confirms that the tropics have been and continue to be the Earth's engine of…

Life & Chemistry

Virus Hijacking: Hot Springs Protein Complexes Linked to HIV

Biologists from Indiana University and Montana State University have discovered a striking connection between viruses such as HIV and Ebola and viruses that…

Life & Chemistry

African Starlings: Color-Changing Wonders of the Bird World

It's not going to happen while you're peering through your binoculars, but African glossy starlings change color more than 10 times faster than their ancestors…

Studies and Analyses

Partial Livers From Deceased Donors Save Infant Lives

Findings published online in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver…

Earth Sciences

Increasing Dust Emissions in the West: CU-Boulder Study Insights

The escalation in dust emissions — which may be due to the interplay of several factors, including increased windstorm frequency, drought cycles and changing…

Medical Engineering

Cardiac PET/MR Imaging: A New Benchmark in Diagnostics

Just a few years ago, integrated positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance (PET/MR) imaging was found only in research institutes, but little by…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Explores JC Polyomavirus and Disease Links

Even as a new research paper allays fears that common mutant forms of the virus are the ones directly responsible for the disease's main attack, that same…

Process Engineering

Fraunhofer FEP Launches High-Speed Roll-to-Roll PECVD Process

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP have developed a novel vacuum coating process which in addition to the…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Discovery of Sox4’s Role in Cancer Metastasis

This finding is reported by researchers from the University of Basel and from the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Cancer Cell. Inhibition of Sox4 and…

Feedback