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Physics & Astronomy

Hard X-Ray Nanoprobe Unlocks New Insights in Nanoscale Materials

It has been designed to study novel nanoscale materials and devices aimed at, for example, harvesting solar energy more efficiently, providing more efficient…

Life & Chemistry

Researcher Wins Award for Groundbreaking Cell Traits Study

However, Weibel's efforts to uncover the molecular choreography within the cell that governs their physical, chemical and physiological attributes – including…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify New Role for 'Power Plants' in Human Cells

The gene products, known as tRNAs, assemble amino acids for the production of proteins within mitochondria. If the mitochondrial tRNA genes are defective or…

Environmental Conservation

Urgent Action Needed to Address Looming Tropical Disaster

Published online today in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, the review concludes we are “on a trajectory…

Life & Chemistry

Stem Cells Turned Nerve Cells: A Breakthrough for Brain Treatment

Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have, for the first time, genetically programmed embryonic stem (ES) cells to become nerve cells when…

Environmental Conservation

Climate Modeling Shows California’s Native Plant Species in Peril from Global Warming

Two-thirds of the plants native to the state of California could suffer more than an 80 percent reduction in geographic range by the end of the century,…

Physics & Astronomy

Silicon Photonic Crystals Enable Optical Cloaking Breakthrough

“This is much more than a theoretical exercise,” said Harley Johnson, a Cannon Faculty Scholar and professor of mechanical science and engineering at Illinois….

Earth Sciences

Explosive Volcanism Discovered Under Arctic Ocean Ice

An international team of researchers was able to provide evidence of explosive volcanism in the deeps of the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for the first time.Researchers from an expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, led by the American Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), report in the current issue of the journal Nature that they discovered, with a specially developed camera, extensive layers of volcanic ash on the seafloor, which indicates a gigantic volcanic eruption….

Technology Offerings

New Thermally Stable Copper-Oxygen Adduct Complexes Revealed

The new copper-oxygen adduct complexes according to the present invention are thermally stable at room temperature (and above), for the first time, as well as…

Technology Offerings

Hydrolytically Degradable Ionic Copolymers: A New Breakthrough

The invention at hand provides for the first time hydrolytically degradable, ionic copolymers, which are produced through radical polymerisation and comprise a…

Life & Chemistry

Hard Shell, Soft Core: The Rise of Zinc Oxide Semiconductors

Semiconductors have become indispensable for modern technology. For example, oxide semiconductors such as zinc oxide (ZnO) are the materials of choice for…

Information Technology

UK Scientific Research Boosted by NGS Innovations

Established in 2004 and now with over 500 accredited users, the NGS is in use extensively across a wide range of research disciplines such as bioinformatics.

Information Technology

Enhancing Fisheries Management with Semantic Technologies

Helping countries manage the world’s food supply sustainably is the challenging task of the FAO. Now the organisation is working with the EU-funded NeOn…

Life & Chemistry

Purple Extremist Thrives in Harsh Environments

Mild environmental conditions are a prerequisite for life. Strong acids or dissolved metallic salts in high concentrations are detrimental to both humans and…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Plant Medicine Production Unveiled

This is the result of the research soon to be published in the renowned scientific magazine The Plant Cell. The scientists expect that this knowledge will…

Studies and Analyses

Understanding Human Attention: Insights from New Research

These are the questions answered by a research work of the Department of Experimental Psychology and Behaviour Physiology of the University of Granada carried…

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