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Measuring Service Productivity: Key Strategies for Success

With the right services, companies can improve their performance and be more competitive. But is there a reliable way to measure how productive the services…

Information Technology

Saarbrücken computer scientists’ anti-spyware app crosses one million downloads

To address this issue, Saarland University computer scientists developed an anti-spyware app. As of today, the app has been downloaded more than a million…

Life & Chemistry

Tiny Gold Particles Enhance Plastic Production Efficiency

From methanol to formaldehyde – this reaction is the starting point for the synthesis of many everyday plastics. Using catalysts made of gold particles,…

Earth Sciences

Unveiling Environmental History Through 100 Million Laser Beams

By combining high-resolution surface data obtained from laser scanning with subsurface geodata, scientists from Heidelberg University have succeeded for the…

Machine Engineering

Mobile Manipulators Revolutionize Aerospace Production

VALERI is the name of the project that was initiated and now coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) in Magdeburg,…

Trade Fair News

Computer Simulation Enhances Laser Material Processing Efficiency

This requires, in particular, the introduction of new technologies such as the ultra-short pulse laser technology. At its joint stand 330 in Hall C2, the…

Health & Medicine

Improved Prognosis for Flu and Bacteria Combos Uncovered

Scientists from the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna have provided insights into how much…

Life & Chemistry

Movement of pyrrole molecules defy 'classical' physics

Using uniquely sensitive experimental techniques, scientists have found that laws of quantum physics – believed primarily to influence at only sub-atomic…

Information Technology

New Insights on Evolvability’s Role in Evolutionary Origins

In a paper published this week in PLOS ONE, the researchers report that evolvability can increase over generations regardless of whether species are competing…

Earth Sciences

Sea Surface Temperatures Reach Highest Level in 150 Years on Northeast Continental Shelf

These high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are the latest in a trend of above average temperature seen during the spring and summer seasons, and part of a…

Life & Chemistry

Battery of tests on cancer cells shows them as 'squishy,' yet tactically strong

A team of student researchers and their professors from 20 laboratories around the country have gotten a new view of cancer cells. The work could shed light on…

Life & Chemistry

Hitting 'reset' in protein synthesis restores myelination

A potential new treatment strategy for patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is on the horizon, thanks to research by neuroscientists now at the University…

Health & Medicine

Physicists and Biologists Reveal How Cancer Cells Spread

The researchers report in the journal Scientific Reports that a systematic comparison of metastatic breast-cancer cells to healthy breast cells revealed…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Treatments for Complicated Childhood PKD

Their invited manuscript, written by Grzegorz Telega, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics (gastroenterology and hepatology) at MCW and program director of…

Earth Sciences

How Plants Help Mitigate Climate Warming Effects

The new study, published in Nature Geoscience, identified a negative feedback loop in which higher temperatures lead to an increase in concentrations of…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover New Way Protein Degradation Is Regulated

Researchers at Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have identified a new way that the cell’s protein recycler, the proteasome, takes…

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