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Discover SolarSiCF: Innovative Photovoltaic Textile Unveiled

SolarSiCF is a photovoltaic textile, consisting of dopable

close meshed silicon carbide fibers enclosed by a photoactive polymer. The extra flexible tissue…

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WalzPro: Innovative Tool for Prismatic Profile Expansion

WalzPro is a rolling-in tool for the expansion of profiles with

non-cylindric cross sections (e.g. square profiles) and/or for

Life & Chemistry

Forensic Photography Revives Color in Ancient Textiles

Although ancient fabrics can offer clues about prehistoric cultures, often their colors are faded, patterns dissolved, and fibers crumbling. Forensic…

Earth Sciences

New data shakes accepted models of collisions of the Earth's crust

Eric Calais, an associate professor of geophysics at Purdue University, in collaboration with Ming Wang and Zenghang Shen from the Institute for Geology and…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Identify 'Missing Link' in Process Leading to Alzheimer's Disease

The findings are reported in the Nov. 20, 2006, issue of the Journal of Cell Biology and could eventually lead to new drugs that target and disrupt specific…

Earth Sciences

Seismic Waves Help Locate Missing Rock Beneath Tibet

By finding the massive block of errant rock beneath Tibet, the researchers are helping solve a long-standing mystery, and clarifying how continents behave when…

Physics & Astronomy

JILA Research Sheds Light on the Casimir-Polder Force

The research highlights an underappreciated aspect of the elusive Casimir-Polder force, one of the stranger effects of quantum mechanics. The force arises from…

Earth Sciences

Embracing Adaptation: Key Strategies for Climate Change Response

While many consider it taboo, adaptation to global climate change needs to be recognized as just as important as “mitigation,” or cutting back, of greenhouse…

Health & Medicine

Breakthrough Discovery Enhances Control of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses

Researchers report discovering the receptor through which a group of life-threatening hemorrhagic fever viruses enter and attack the body's cells, and show…

Studies and Analyses

Pycnogenol: Natural Glucose Absorption Delay 190 Times Stronger

A new study to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal of Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice reveals that French maritime pine tree extract…

Life & Chemistry

First Horse Genome Sequence Released for Research Use

The first draft of the horse genome sequence has been deposited in public databases and is freely available for use by biomedical and veterinary researchers…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Universal tRNA Features and Their Impact

tRNAs are the molecules responsible for decoding sequence information specified by messenger RNA molecules, information which is ultimately encoded by the DNA…

Information Technology

How Neuroscience Is Shaping AI’s Street Scene Recognition

At last, neuroscience is having an impact on computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). For the first time, scientists in Tomaso Poggio's laboratory at…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's largest space telescope mirror will see deeper into space

A telescope's sensitivity, or how much detail it can see, is directly related to the size of the mirror area that collects light from the cosmos. A larger area…

Physics & Astronomy

Machine Learning Enhances Radiation Therapy for Cancer Patients

In a paper published in the Feb. 7 issue of Physics in Medicine and Biology, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute describe an approach that has…

Life & Chemistry

New Treatment Discovered for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

It should be noted that acute lymphoblastic leucemia is the most common oncological disease amongst children. This is why the application of this discovery…

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