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Process Engineering

Enhancing Laser Material Deposition with 3D Powder Gas Insights

The powder gas feed is an important parameter of the overall process and plays a key role in the results achieved. Precise knowledge of the powder gas stream…

Life & Chemistry

New Genetic Variants Identified for Obesity by UDE Scientists

Together with international colleagues, a group of scientists of the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) has identified two new genetic loci for obesity. The…

Life & Chemistry

Precise Molecular Surgery Transforms Plant Genome Innovation

Crop plants have always been adapted to the needs of man by breeding for them to carry more fruit, survive droughts, or resist pests. Green biotechnology now…

Physics & Astronomy

Ames Laboratory’s Quest for Next-Gen Metamaterial Conductors

Cloaking devices that hide planes from RADAR, microscopes that can see inside a single cell, and miniature antennae that measure only a few millimeters all…

Health & Medicine

Bile – not Acid – is Bad Guy in Triggering Precancerous Condition Associated with Reflux Disease

But when it comes to Barrett’s esophagus, a condition commonly found in people with GERD, acid control may be less important than beating back another bodily…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Pod Corn: Exploring Unique Kernels Covered in Glumes

In a variant of maize known as pod corn, or tunicate maize, the maize kernels on the cob are not ‘naked’ but covered by long membranous husks known as glumes….

Health & Medicine

Binge Eating Linked to Addiction-Like Behaviors: A Study

In the short term, this finding may shed light on the factors that promote substance abuse, addiction, and relapse. In the long term, may help clinicians treat…

Life & Chemistry

"Junk DNA" Can Sense Viral Infection

Once considered unimportant “junk DNA,” scientists have learned that non-coding RNA (ncRNA) — RNA molecules that do not translate into proteins — play a…

Health & Medicine

Molecular probes identify changes in fibronectin that may lead to disease

During physiological processes, fibronectin fibers are believed to experience mechanical forces that strain the fibers and cause dramatic structural…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Markers for Efficient Species Identification

Biologists now want to use a similar procedure for identifying domestic animal and plant species more efficiently. German Barcode of Life (GBOL) is the name of…

Earth Sciences

Fracking Rules: Minimum 0.6 km Distance From Sensitive Strata

The analysis is based on data from thousands of fracking operations in the USA and natural rock fractures in Europe and Africa.It is believed to be the first…

Life & Chemistry

Flies Process Odors Differently in Their Brain Regions

In collaboration with colleagues from Portugal and Spain, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have developed an…

Earth Sciences

Geophysicists Uncover Sea Level Rise Sources With New Method

Now, a group of geophysicists from the University of Toronto, Harvard and Rutgers Universities have found a way to identify the sea level fingerprint left by a…

Automotive Engineering

Vibrating Steering Wheel: Keeping Drivers Focused on the Road

A vibrating steering wheel is an effective way to keep a driver's eyes safely on the road by providing an additional means to convey directions from a car's…

Health & Medicine

Outpatient Surgery Risks: 1 in 84 Patients Face Blood Clots

A University of Michigan Health System study examined who’s having outpatient surgery in the U.S. today, and showed 1 in 84 highest-risk patients suffers a…

Health & Medicine

New Microdevice Cultures Rare Tumor Cells from Blood

A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has created a…

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