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Environmental Conservation

Bears, Scavengers Count on All-You-Can-Eat Salmon Buffet Lasting for Months

Instead, watersheds need a good mix of steep, cold-running streams and slower, meandering streams of warmer water to keep options open for salmon adapted to…

Earth Sciences

Robotic Geologist to Analyze Mars’ Rocks Using Mineral Database

It will explore the composition of rocks with the help of the world's largest reference database of minerals, housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson.On…

Life & Chemistry

Gold Nanoparticles Follow “Genetic Code” – Innovations Report

“We have shown for the first time that some of the proteins altered in Fragile X and Down syndromes are common molecular triggers of intellectual disability in…

Life & Chemistry

Electrophilic Sneeze: Innovations in Ragweed Allergy Relief

Allergy to pollen of common ragweed is increasingly affecting patients and is second only to grass pollen in terms of incidence in the general population of…

Life & Chemistry

Broccoli & co.: mustard oils as chemical mace

Plants produce a large variety of substances that are often highly prized by humans, such as caffeine and essential oils. Many substances derived from plants…

Studies and Analyses

Periodontitis Revisited: It’s the Community, Not Single Microorganisms!

There’s a direct correlation between the diversity of your oral microbiome – the up to 700 different species of bacteria that live in your mouth – and the…

Life & Chemistry

New Treatment Approach for Acute Liver Failure by MDC Researchers

Now the physician Dr. Junfeng An of the Max Delbrück Center (MDC) Berlin-Buch and Dr. Stefan Donath, a specialist in cardiology (MDC and Helios Klinikum…

Information Technology

Data storage: Memory that does it all

Computers often do not run as fast as they should because they are constantly transferring information between two kinds of memory: a fast, volatile memory…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Intelligent Solutions for Medium-Voltage Network Efficiency

This technology exploits the network's efficiency potential and makes it easier to integrate decentralized generation such as small hydroelectric power plants…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Energy Costs Cut by €500K: A Sustainable Innovation Update

The program will repay its investment costs of €1.9 million in about four and a half years. At the same time, the location now emits one fourth less carbon…

Health & Medicine

Exploring the Link Between Color Perception and Depression

In language and arts depression is associated with darkness and grey and black colours. Everything looks grey when people feel blue.There might be an empirical…

Awards Funding

Astronomy Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Innovation

During the yearly major fall meeting, the German Astronomical Society awards internationally renowned prizes to individuals who have made outstanding…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Flu Structure: Insights from EMBL Research

Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble, France, have determined the detailed 3-dimensional structure of part of the flu…

Life & Chemistry

Photonics: Sensing on the way

Processing biological samples on a small substrate the size of a computer chip is becoming a common task for biotechnology applications. Given the small…

Materials Sciences

Unique anti-reflective and self-cleaning plastic films to be ramped up for industry use

Fast, high-volume production of plastics with specially engineered surfaces will soon be available using a cheaper and simpler method. IMRE and its Industrial…

Health & Medicine

New target for treating diabetes and obesity

Studying mice, they found that when the target protein was disabled, the animals became more sensitive to insulin and were less likely to get fat even when…

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