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Life & Chemistry

Water-Based ‘Artificial Leaf’ Produces Electricity

The bendable devices are composed of water-based gel infused with light-sensitive molecules – the researchers used plant chlorophyll in one of the experiments…

Information Technology

If Drivers Don’t Hear Directions, They Can Feel Them

The researchers say they don’t want their results to encourage dangerous and distracted driving by cell phone users. Instead, they hope the study will point to…

Studies and Analyses

Complexity Not So Costly After All, Analysis Shows

But if that tenet is true, how do you explain all the well-adapted, complex organisms—from orchids to bower birds to humans—in this world? This “cost of…

Health & Medicine

Mindfulness Meditation: Reducing Fatigue in MS Patients

In the study, people who took an eight-week class in mindfulness meditation training reduced their fatigue and depression and improved overall quality of life…

Interdisciplinary Research

Understanding Droughts and Floods: Complex Factors Unveiled

Extreme events, such as floods or droughts, are caused by multiple factors – and must therefore be studied from many different perspectives. This is what…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoneedles Deliver Quantum Dots to Cell Nucleus Insights

Understanding the processes inside the nucleus of a cell, which houses DNA and is the site for transcribing genes, could lead to greater comprehension of…

Machine Engineering

Lightweight structures, the future technology – Thermoforming and injection moulding in one single mould

This dynamically loaded component for a passenger car is produced from organo sheet – a glass fibre reinforced semifinished thermoplastic composite – and…

Technology Offerings

New Spin Markers Enhance Protein Analysis with EPR Techniques

Frankfurt scientists have developed a novel orthogonal spin label for structural and functional analysis of proteins with electron paramagnetic resonance…

Health & Medicine

New Invention Enhances Treatment for Children with Hydrocephalus

Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists participated in a study with researchers from the University of Utah that could help find ways to improve shunt…

Life & Chemistry

Malaria’s newest pathway into human cells identified

Each year more than 400 million people contract malaria, and more than one million, mostly children, die from the disease. The most lethal form of malaria is…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Insights Into Vertebrate Jaw Evolution Uncovered

This week, an international team of researchers led by a faculty member from the University of Colorado at Boulder published evidence that three genes in…

Life & Chemistry

How Stress Influences Our Genes at the Cellular Level

But if we zoom in on the building bricks of the body, our cells, stress and its causes are defined somewhat differently. Stress can arise at the cellular level…

Environmental Conservation

UK’s shipping emissions six times higher than expected says new report

As the shipping industry’s emissions are predicted to continue to grow in the future, the UK will fail to meet its commitment to avoid dangerous climate change…

Environmental Conservation

Heating Homes Sustainably: A Path to Climate Change Solutions

In a series of reports to be presented at a major conference this week, scientists at The University of Manchester claim using sustainable wood and other…

Studies and Analyses

Phantom Limbs: New Insights Into Nervous System Illusions

Damage to the nervous system, such as stroke, may cause similar illusions in weakened limbs, whereby an arm or leg may feel as if it is in a completely…

Studies and Analyses

Video Gaming Enhances Brain Skills for Bigger Challenges

Researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at York University in Canada compared a group of 13 young men in their twenties, who had played video games at…

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