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New service “GWDG Cloud Share“ simplifies mobile computing

The service offers a range of interesting applications which facilitate for scientists, teachers and students mobile working with several devices far more…

Life & Chemistry

Mainz Scientists Identify Key Inhibitor of Myelin Formation

Scientists at the Mainz University Medical Center have discovered another molecule that plays an important role in regulating myelin formation in the central…

Studies and Analyses

Dance boosts young girls’ mental health

Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing. This is shown in a study run by Anna Duberg, a physical therapist…

Earth Sciences

Meteorite Samples Reveal Water and Rock Types on Mars

Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, and Carnegie Institute of Washington report on…

Materials Sciences

A*STAR’s IMRE and Cima NanoTech to develop materials for next generation transparent conductors

IMRE and Cima NanoTech are collaborating to develop new transparent conductive materials and components, based on Cima’s SANTE™ Technology[1] and IMRE’s…

Physics & Astronomy

Martian history: Finding a common denominator with Earth's

This implies that terrestrial planets, including Earth, have similar water sources–chondritic meteorites. However, unlike on Earth, Martian rocks that contain…

Environmental Conservation

CCNY Landscape Architect Proposes Storm Surge Defense Solutions

The flooding in New York and New Jersey caused by Superstorm Sandy prompted calls from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials to consider building storm surge…

Health & Medicine

New Tumor Tracking Technique Enhances Lung Cancer Care

Medical physicists at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center are one step closer to bringing a new tumor-tracking technique into the…

Life & Chemistry

Multiple sclerosis 'immune exchange' between brain and blood is uncovered

DNA sequences obtained from a handful of patients with multiple sclerosis at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center have revealed…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights Into Peculiar Type Ia Supernovae Explosions

Most of the thousands of exploding stars classified as type Ia supernovae look similar, which is why astrophysicists use them as accurate cosmic distance…

Health & Medicine

Scripps Research Institute team identifies a potential cause of Parkinson's disease

But a team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has pinpointed a key factor controlling damage to brain cells in a mouse model of…

Awards Funding

DPG Awards Gustav Hertz Prize to Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis

This DPG award is in particular given to young physicists in recognition of a recent scientific achievement, in order to encourage young physics students. Dr….

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Pin Down Origins of “Mile Markers” for Expansion of Universe

In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers describe observations of recent supernova 2011fe that they captured with the Large Binocular…

Health & Medicine

Smoking in Pregnancy Linked to Lower Reading Scores

The findings are published in the current issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. Lead author Jeffrey Gruen, M.D., professor of pediatrics and genetics at Yale…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Directly Image Massive Star's 'Super-Jupiter'

Designated Kappa Andromedae b (Kappa And b, for short), the new object has a mass about 12.8 times greater than Jupiter's. This places it teetering on the…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Tech Keeps Spacecraft Fresh From Molecular Contaminants

For some people, the best part about buying a new car is its factory-fresh new car smell, a distinctive aroma created when the chemicals and residual solvents…

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