Researches from Stuttgart are pioneers in E-band-research. This month, the EIVE nanosatellite will be sent into space on an exploration tour. A research team based at the University of Stuttgart is investigating rapid data transmission in a frequency band that has hardly been utilized so far. This is a milestone for future high-speed data communication networks in space. Later this month, after four years of development and testing, a research team based at the University of Stuttgart will send the…
… and further new developments at Laser World of Photonics. At the Munich trade show, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut will be exhibiting, among other things, a robotic arm with a novel direct diode laser system for 3D printing. It will also present its diode laser and UV-LED portfolio – with advances in chip technology as well as modules and systems. Once again, the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik (FBH) will present its complete range of services at Laser World of Photonics in Munich…
– Sweet code with laser printing. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPICI) has developed a method that could make it more difficult to counterfeit products in the future. The new and patented method makes it possible to produce unique, non-copyable fluorescent patterns quickly, environmentally friendly and at low costs. Counterfeiting of electronics, certificates or medicines causes billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide every year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that…
Mix and Match: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have uncovered the molecular secrets of a methane-generating microbe that can transform sulfate into sulfide – a ready-to-use cellular building block. This discovery opens up exciting opportunities in biofuel production. Sulfur, an essential building block of life Sulfur is a fundamental element of life and all organisms need it to synthesize cellular materials. Autotrophs, such as plants and algae, acquire sulfur by converting sulfate into…
Small change brings big gain in performance for solid-state battery electrolyte. Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists found that a small tweak created big performance improvements in a type of solid-state battery, a technology considered vital to broader electric vehicle adoption. These batteries use a solid electrolyte instead of a potentially flammable liquid. When the battery charges or operates, ions move between electrodes through the electrolyte between them. A new method for pressing the solid electrolyte practically eliminates tiny air pockets that block ion flow,…
A new paper lays out scientific methods for measuring and calculating Q in a sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch. In the race to develop fusion energy, each unique approach requires its own specialized techniques to determine net energy gain, an equation balancing energy in and out that’s known by the letter Q. A new paper, published today in the journal Fusion Science and Technology, establishes the company’s method of measuring and calculating Q in Zap’s sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch fusion plasmas. The publication will be…
… could improve performance of quantum computers and artificial intelligence. U of M researchers’ device is more energy efficient and versatile than past models. A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new superconducting diode, a key component in electronic devices, that could help scale up quantum computers for industry use and improve the performance of artificial intelligence systems. Compared to other superconducting diodes, the researchers’ device is more energy efficient; can process multiple electrical signals at a…
New simulations suggest, for the first time, that cocoons of debris around dying stars likely emit gravitational waves Cocoons form as a massive star sheds debris while collapsing into a black hole LIGO might be able to detect these gravitational waves from cocoons in upcoming runs So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems — the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars or one of each. Although astrophysicists theoretically should be able to detect…
Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth – the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to the capabilities of the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and careful analyses from the research team, a new study lends critical insight into the complex chemical interactions that occur in the first galaxies in the early universe. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign astronomy and physics professor Joaquin…
The Institute for Drug Discovery led by Humboldt Professor Jens Meiler is to receive 1.9 million dollars (1.77 million euros) for the development of vaccines. The international Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) will fund computer-aided vaccine development at Leipzig University with the aim of building a digital ‘vaccine library’ of components and virtual antigen designs. Using classical and AI-based software, vaccine candidates will be designed for ten priority virus families with epidemic and pandemic potential, with the aim of…
MHH Cardiology participates in a nationwide project to improve risk assessment thanks to structured and standardized data. Digitization in the healthcare sector is intended to improve patient care and simplify workflows in clinics and practices. This is also the goal of the large-scale ACRIBiS project. Here, 15 German research institutions want to jointly advance personalized risk assessment for cardiovascular diseases and improve the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of these diseases. ACRIBiS is an application project of the Medical Informatics Initiative…
Aircraft that routinely fly over bodies of water around the world to monitor pollution could in future not only detect oil and chemical spills on the high seas, in coastal waters and on beaches, but also plastic waste floating on the surface of the water. In the PlasticObs+ project, a consortium led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is working to develop the first airborne monitoring of larger, contiguous marine areas that continuously detects plastic in waters…
Alzheimer’s disease, an irreversible form of dementia, is considered the world’s most common neurodegenerative disease. The prime risk factor for Alzheimer’s is age, although it remains unclear why. It is known that the insulating layer around nerve cells in the brain, named myelin, degenerates with age. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen have now shown that such defective myelin actively promotes disease-related changes in Alzheimer’s. Slowing down age-related myelin damage could open up new…
Missing link explains mRNA delivery in brain cells. Teams from MPI Institutes in Dresden, Dortmund, Frankfurt am Main and Göttingen have joined forces to gain the first evidence of a protein complex responsible for the transport of messenger RNA in neurons. Brain cells manufacture proteins in every corner, including their long branches. Neurons missing this ability cause severe neurological disorders like disability and epilepsy. The groups of Marino Zerial, Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in…
What the international team of researchers actually set out to do was to detect a mysterious chemical object: a dielectron in solution. A dielectron is made up of two electrons, but unlike an atom, it has no nucleus. Up to now, scientists have been unable to directly detect such an object. While the researchers led by ETH Zurich Professor Ruth Signorell were experimenting with dielectrons, they accidentally discovered a new process for producing slow electrons. These can be used to…
The world’s first fully integrated and functional microchip based on exotic two-dimensional materials has been fabricated at KAUST. The breakthrough demonstrates the potential of 2D materials to expand the functionality and performance of microchip-based technologies. Since the first fabrication of atomically thin layers of graphite — called graphene — in 2004, there has been intense interest in such materials for advanced and novel applications due to their exotic and promising physical properties. But, despite two decades of research, functional microdevices…
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