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Life & Chemistry

Dragonfly Wing Veins: Insights from Microstructure Analysis

Based on observed microstructural model and previously reported model about the main longitudinal veins and membrane, in which the former is based on the…

Life & Chemistry

Bacterial Roundabouts: How MreB Shapes Cell Structure

As scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and at the French INRA now show, MreB molecules assemble into larger units, but not – as previously…

Earth Sciences

Wild Winds: Changes in Weather Patterns Creating More Severe Storms

John Harrington Jr., professor of geography, is a synoptic climatologist who examines the factors behind distinctive weather events. He credits the increased…

Life & Chemistry

Black, White and Stinky: Explaining Bold Coloration in Skunks

Stankowich says most evolutionary research attention to date on warning coloration in animals has been paid to species like newts, poison dart frogs and…

Life & Chemistry

Bloodless Worms Yield Insight on Human Blood, Parasites & Iron Deficiency

The findings, published in the journal Cell, could lead to new methods for treating age-old scourges – parasitic worm infections, which affect more than a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Noise Research to Combat 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'

They are also developing a computer model to predict the noise output from wind farms so they can accurately and quickly assess the effectiveness of potential…

Health & Medicine

Barefoot Running: to Ditch the Shoes Or Not

The reason it could do both, Warden said, has to do with whether you grew up running in standard athletic shoes. The feet of runners land differently,…

Life & Chemistry

Small Change Boosts Ion Channel Function in Latest Research

Professor Claudio Grosman and research scientist Gisela Cymes published their work in the journal Nature.Nicotinic-type receptors are proteins embedded in the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Researchers cut machinery fuel consumption by half

– These heavy duty machines are operated for long periods of time, so by the end of the day emissions and fuel consumption have added up. Being able to target…

Earth Sciences

Study may explain extreme algae growth in streams where they should starve

The alga, called Didymo for Didymosphenia geminata, does so with a little help from its friends — in this case, bacteria– which allow it to make use of…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking E. Coli: New Insights on Antibiotic Resistance

Using latest third generation sequencing technology genetic evidence was created explaining the virulent potential and augmented antibiotic resistance of the…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Early Hominin Landscape Use and Tool Patterns

So far ranging and residence patterns amongst early hominins have been indirectly inferred from morphology, stone tool sourcing, comparison to living primates…

Technology Offerings

New Knock-Out System Advances Chondrocyte Dysfunction Study

Arthritic diseases are conditions involving damages to the joints and/or cartilage, mostly due to dysfunction of chondrocytes. Osteoarthritis is the most…

Technology Offerings

Bioabsorbable Structures for Tissue Implant Stabilization

The bioabsorbable stabilizing structure has the aim to stabilize the implanted tissue, especially in the area of high pressure.Further Information: PDF Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH (EZN)…

Technology Offerings

Innovative Mukosastent: Degradable Magnesium Alloy Solution

The mukosastent made of a degradable magnesium alloy is fixed by abduction of the wings.Further Information: PDF Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH (EZN)Phone: +49 (0)511/85 03 08 – 0…

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Real-Time Computer Modeling of Musical Instruments

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A new developed method makes a computer aided modelling of music instruments in real time possible. It considers variations…

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