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Design Meets Functionality: Innovations in Various Industries

For several years already, neither automotive engineering nor life science, architecture or the producers of animation films have been able to work without…

Physics & Astronomy

Real-Time Observation of Quantum Holes in Attosecond Physics

An international team from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (www.attoworld.de), led by Prof. Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics…

Materials Sciences

Precise Measurement Tech for Sustainable Plastic Films

All over Europe, the average demand for plastic packaging is increasing by 5.5 percent annually. As the second largest producer worldwide, Germany has profited…

Interdisciplinary Research

German Virtual Liver Network: Advancing Medical Innovation

In April 2010, an ambitious new project was launched in Germany: The German Virtual Liver Network. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Aids Breast Cancer Survivors’ Recovery

A new study of breast cancer survivors may help physicians ease a common side effect of cancer treatments. The collaborative research by Eva Sevick, Ph.D.,…

Health & Medicine

Pancreatic Cancers Use Fructose, Common in the Western Diet, to Fuel Their Growth

Although it’s widely known that cancers use glucose, a simple sugar, to fuel their growth, this is the first time a link has been shown between fructose and…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Storm Colin Develops from Atlantic Depression 4

The fourth Atlantic tropical depression became Tropical Storm Colin early in the morning today, August 3 and NASA and other satellites are keeping tabs on it….

Health & Medicine

New Study Challenges Theory Behind MS Development

The Umeå scientists are not alone in calling into question the findings of the Italian research team. A study run by a German research group does not either…

Studies and Analyses

The Next Frontier For States and Cities: Building Clean Energy Industries and Green Jobs

Today, as state and local governments seek to integrate environmental and energy policies with job creation, a first-of-its kind national study has found that…

Studies and Analyses

Windy Cities: Researchers Invent New Tool to Calculate Hurricane Risk

Geography doctoral student Jill C. Malmstadt, working with Professor James B. Elsner and research consultant Thomas H. Jagger, created the Hurricane Risk…

Life & Chemistry

The Taste of Quinine: It’s In Your Bitter Genes

The findings, published online in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, demonstrate that genetic variation in regions of DNA that encode bitter taste receptors…

Materials Sciences

New Catalyst of Platinum Nanoparticles Could Lead to Conk-Out Free, Stable Fuel Cells

The research, “Highly Stable and CO-Tolerant Pt/Ti0.7W0.3O2 Electrocatalyst for Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells,” led by Héctor D. Abruña, Cornell…

Physics & Astronomy

UA Stereo Camera Chosen for NASA Mars Exploration Mission

NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments –…

Life & Chemistry

Molecules On the Move: Advancements in Drug Delivery

“The deformability of particles makes them very different from atoms or hard colloids,” says author Arash Nikoubashman of Heinrich Heine University of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Solar Cell Design Cuts Costs by Up to 80%

The change to nickel can reduce the cell's already low material costs by 40 to 80 percent, says Lukasz Brzozowski, the director of the Photovoltaics Research…

Materials Sciences

Selenium Boosts Efficiency of Next-Gen Solar Cells

Research reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), describes how solar power could potentially be…

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