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Economic slowdown is affecting Germany's credit market

The economic slowdown and weak investment activity of the fourth quarter of 2012 has severely impacted on lending growth in Germany at the start of the year….

Life & Chemistry

Biochemical engineering: Waste not, want not

Powered by sunlight, microalgae are tiny biofuel generators that soak up carbon dioxide to produce energy-rich lipids, which are showing promise as a potential…

Information Technology

Plasmonics: Model makes light work of nanocircuits

As computer manufacturers cram ever more processing power onto tiny chips, they face a growing problem. The connections between electronic components that…

Information Technology

Information technology: Improving the health of machines

A novel adaptive management system boosts the efficiency of wireless sensor networks that monitor surrounding environmentsElectronic engineers in Singapore…

Information Technology

Signal processing: Look-up tables to shoulder the processing load

Advanced mathematical algorithms are essential for processing electronic signals within computers and embedded processors. Scientists and engineers are…

Trade Fair News

Optimize Energy Use: New Monitoring System for Manufacturing

This can be achieved with a monitoring system developed by Fraunhofer FIT that, due to its service-oriented architecture and its ability to use heterogeneous…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Mapping Tapeworm Genomes for Health Advances

Tapeworms live in the intestines and absorb nutrients from their hosts without doing any major harm. Their larvae, in contrast, are much more dangerous. They…

Physics & Astronomy

Carbon’s Role in Star Formation: Insights from Helium Burns

Both carbon and oxygen are produced when helium burns inside of giant red stars. Carbon-12, an essential element we’re all made of, can only form when three…

Earth Sciences

Hard rain – UI study of Midwest finds increase in heavy rainfalls over 60 years

The fact that temperatures over the country's midsection are rising, too, may be more than coincidence.The hotter the surface temperature, which has been the…

Health & Medicine

Series of studies first to examine acupuncture's mechanisms of action

While acupuncture is used widely to treat chronic stress, the mechanism of action leading to reported health benefits are not understood. In a series of…

Life & Chemistry

RUB Researchers Shape Floppy Molecule Using Solvent Effects

How you get the chameleon of the molecules to settle on a particular “look” has been discovered by RUB chemists led by Professor Dominik Marx. The molecule…

Medical Engineering

New Brain Stent Procedure Tackles Vein Narrowing Effectively

A team of interventional neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins reports wide success with a new procedure to treat pseudotumor cerebri, a rare…

Health & Medicine

Garbled Text Messages: A New Stroke Symptom?

The case study focused on a 40-year-old man visiting the metro Detroit area on business who showed signs of “dystextia,” a recently coined term for incoherent…

Health & Medicine

Study Links Rapid Hearing Loss to Rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

That was the conclusion of Henry Ford Hospital researchers after encountering a 67-year-old patient who had been progressively losing hearing in both ears for…

Health & Medicine

Sleepwalkers sometimes remember what they've done

Three myths about sleepwalking – sleepwalkers have no memory of their actions, sleepwalkers' behaviour is without motivation, and sleepwalking has no daytime…

Earth Sciences

One of the world’s oldest sun dial dug up in Kings’ Valley

The team of the Egyptological Seminar under the direction of Prof. Susanne Bickel made the significant discovery while clearing the entrance to one of the…

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