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Life & Chemistry

Interorganellar Signals: Boosting Longevity Through Mitochondria

As people get older, they often feel less energetic, mobile or active. This may be due in part to a decline in mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses inside of our…

Physics & Astronomy

Superconductors with ‘zeitgeist’ – when materials differentiate between the past and the future

What happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow are usually two different and quite independent matters. The past and the future of human life are not…

Life & Chemistry

Measuring Intervention Impact: Insights from German Research

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) and the University of Göttingen have now succeeded in analyzing the German…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Intervalley Transitions Enhance Valleytronic Tech

An international research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed light emission from a new type of transition between…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists break the link between a quantum material's spin and orbital states

In designing electronic devices, scientists look for ways to manipulate and control three basic properties of electrons: their charge; their spin states, which…

Architecture & Construction

Double helix of masonry — Researchers discover the secret of Italian renaissance domes

Sigrid Adriaenssens, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton, collaborated on the analysis with graduate student Vittorio Paris and…

Studies and Analyses

Designing Fairer City Streets: Insights from Recent Study

The paper has just been published in the renowned journal Transport Reviews. “The special thing about this study is that we first present the conceivable…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Protein Collaboration and Solo Travel in New Study

In a new paper published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the University of Oxford, and Sorbonne…

Environmental Conservation

Emissions from road construction could be halved using today’s technology

“We identified several low hanging fruits, and if we address those first, it will become easier and cheaper to make bigger emission reductions in the future,”…

Materials Sciences

2D Sandwich Structure Enhances Biomolecule Detection

A sandwich of molybdenum, sulfur and selenium turns out to be deliciously useful for detecting biomolecules.

Materials Sciences

New Algorithm Predicts Optimal Materials for Theoretical Use

The computational method developed by Skoltech professor Artem R. Oganov and his PhD student Zahed Allahyari solves this major problem of theoretical materials…

Life & Chemistry

Controlling Cells With Light: New Advances in Actin Research

“Up to now, there are no drugs available that target actin, because the protein is found everywhere in the body, for example in large quantities in the…

Information Technology

Deep Learning Breaks Records in Self-Driving Car Vision

At the Department of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg Dr. Abhinav Valada, Assistant Professor for Robot Learning and member of…

Information Technology

Soft Robotics: Enhancing Flexibility with Innovative Sensors

Robots can be made from soft materials, but the flexibility of such robots is limited by the inclusion of rigid sensors necessary for their control….

Physics & Astronomy

'Hot and messy' entanglement of 15 trillion atoms

Entangled states are famously fragile: in most cases even a tiny disturbance will undo the entanglement. For this reason, current quantum technologies take…

Life & Chemistry

CD4+ Cells in the Fast Lane – Effect of CAR-T Cells in Focus

Major attention was paid to the marketing authorisation granted by the European Commission in 2018 for two so-called CAR-T cell gene therapy medicinal products.

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