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Machine Engineering

High-Speed Isochronous Profinet Controller by Siemens

The Siemens Industry Automation Division has therefore equipped the devices with the relevant interfaces. The CPU 319-3 PN/DP for the Simatic S7-300, the…

Environmental Conservation

Small Desert Beetle Engineers Ecosystems in Surprising Ways

The mesquite girdler Oncideres rhodosticta may only be 13mm long, but it has a big role in shaping the landscape. Research carried out by Benjamin Duval and…

Health & Medicine

New Method for Filming Blood Vessels Reveals Cancer Insights

The method can also be used to study how migration of cancer cells and nerves can be controlled. These interesting findings have now been published in the…

Studies and Analyses

Nation-wide study gives bad grades to health care and pension policies in Germany – differences between East and West

The German welfare state is under constant pressure to reform. Especially demographic change, globalisation and the situation on the labour market demand…

Life & Chemistry

Armed Beetles: Size Doesn’t Matter in Mating Battles

In the world of armed beetles, biggest is usually best, as males often fight for mating rights and those with the largest jaws beat off the competition….

Information Technology

CosPal Project: Innovative Robots That Recognize and Interact

Led by Linköping University in Sweden, the researchers in the COSPAL project adopted an innovative approach to making robots recognise, indentify and interact…

Information Technology

Smart Clothes: Health-Tracking Textiles for Daily Wellness

It is 7 o’clock in the morning. You check yourself in the mirror, adjust your collar, and consider the hectic day ahead. But at least you know that the stress…

Studies and Analyses

Key Studies on Malaria Infection in Liver and Pregnancy

Carlos Penha-Gonçalves and his team, at the Disease Genetics Laboratory, have developed an authentic mouse model of severe malaria in pregnant women. In a…

Environmental Conservation

Fishing on Drifting Devices: Impact on Tropical Tuna Survival

There is still no full explanation for this aggregation behaviour, but the past 20 years have seen purse-seine fishery operators take advantage of the…

Environmental Conservation

Countdown to National Insect Week: Explore Official Website

Designed to have universal appeal, the site will enable people of all ages to learn more about the wonders of the insect world both before and during National…

Science Education

Eindhoven University Launches Institute for Complex Molecular Systems

They will be investigating the exact mechanism behind self-organization, the principle behind all life on earth. Researchers plan to use this knowledge to…

Physics & Astronomy

Firing Photons: A Breakthrough in Space Communication

Research published on Friday, 28 March, in the New Journal of Physics, discusses the feasibility of building a completely secure channel for global…

Life & Chemistry

Ethics Guidelines Urged for Human-Genome Research

Timothy Caulfield, professor and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta in Canada, led a consensus workshop to develop…

Life & Chemistry

Statistics are insufficient for study of proteins' signal system

In an article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) Uppsala researchers are now presenting results of experiments that…

Science Education

European Research Organizations Collaborate on Microtech Innovations

VTT starts collaboration with the European top research centres by integrating its electronic-based micro and nanotechnology research activities with them….

Physics & Astronomy

Stretchable Electronics: The Future of Lightweight Devices

Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft…

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