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DASGIP Celebrates Award for Groundbreaking iApp Innovation

DASGIP has applied with the DASGIP iApp, the world’s first application for monitoring and controlling parallel biotechnology cultivation processes with the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

All around solar!

The new plant will allow Fraunhofer FEP researchers in Dresden to combine key vacuum technologies in any desired sequence and hence accelerate the development…

Physics & Astronomy

Femtosecond Laser Achieves 1.1 kW Output Power Milestone

As a result, they have been able to achieve mean power in the kilowatt range for the first time. The short pulses of the fs laser enable ultraprecise material…

Life & Chemistry

Champion Hydrogen-Producing Microbe

This isn’t just any soup, however. It is a soup of champions.The soup is colored by a strain of blue-green bacteria that bubble off roughly 10 times the…

Interdisciplinary Research

Robot Arm Improves Performance of Brain-Controlled Device

Devices that translate brain activity into the movement of a computer cursor or an external robotic arm have already proven successful in humans. But in these…

Physics & Astronomy

Making Wafers Faster by Making Features Smaller

The semiconductor industry is rapidly approaching this fundamental limit for increasing the speed of the microchip. The development of a new intense 13.5-nm…

Physics & Astronomy

Iridium Memories

One of the rarest metals on Earth may be an excellent option for enabling future flash memory chips to continue to increase in speed and density, according to…

Business and Finance

KfW: Ensuring Stability Amid Volatile Capital Markets

“This year it was the European sovereign debt crisis in particular that shaped the mood of the international capital markets for long stretches. The markets…

Life & Chemistry

New study uncovers how cellular stress causes brain damage

New findings by researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institution, have linked a specific type of cellular stress to neuronal cell death leading to…

Life & Chemistry

Tunable Plastic Thermometers: A Breakthrough in Innovation

Researchers at the Universities of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia have discovered that the ability of a plastic to conduct electricity can be…

Information Technology

UA Engineering Tests New Underground Border Surveillance System

A unique underground surveillance system tested by University of Arizona researchers could be used to watch the entire U.S.-Mexico border continuously.The…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Exploring Biofuels: Ethics and Sustainability Insights

In the world-wide race to develop energy sources that are seen as “green” because they are renewable and less greenhouse gas-intensive, sometimes the most…

Health & Medicine

New Signaling Pathway Linked to Inflammatory Disease Discovered

The research, led by Jose M. Gonzalez-Navajas, PhD, and Eyal Raz, MD, a professor of medicine at UC San Diego, is published as a Brief Definitive Report in the…

Health & Medicine

Combatting Flu in Newborns: Start Prevention During Pregnancy

Influenza is a major cause of serious respiratory disease in pregnant women and of hospitalization in infants. Although the flu vaccine is recommended for all…

Life & Chemistry

Scripps Scientists Uncover Secrets of Bioluminescent Snail

Two scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have provided the first details about the mysterious flashes of dazzling bioluminescent…

Studies and Analyses

Mothers' diets have biggest influence on children eating healthy

As health professionals search for ways to combat the rise in obesity and promote healthy eating, new research reveals a mother's own eating habits – and…

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