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Life & Chemistry

Pupil Dilation: How Our Eyes Adapt to Beauty and Light

When we find something particularly beautiful or impressive, we literally get big eyes: Our pupils dilate. The pupil controls how much light enters the eye and…

Life & Chemistry

Selective Strategies to Target Leukemia Stem Cells Effectively

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer of the blood-forming system. It affects the hematopoietic stem cells, or blood stem cells, of various…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nano-Sensors Transform Patient Care and Treatment Solutions

In the medical field, flexible and highly sensitive sensors can combine diagnostics and treatment with high comfort for patients.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer ISE’s CalLab PV Modules Improves Measurement Uncertainty to Record Value of 1.1 %

Measurement uncertainty is a decisive factor for both quality assurance in module production and for investments in PV power plants. Module manufacturers who…

Life & Chemistry

Lipid Metabolism’s Role in Lifelong Brain Development

Neural stem cells are not only responsible for early brain development – they remain active for an entire lifetime. They divide and continually generate new…

Life & Chemistry

Antarctic Benthos Decline: Impact of Sea-Ice Changes

Over the past quarter-century, changes in Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener…

Medical Engineering

New X-Ray Method for COVID Diagnosis Ready for Testing

Reliable methods for identifying the new Coronavirus are crucial during the pandemic it has caused. In addition to biochemical tests, x-ray methods can also be…

Life & Chemistry

Berlin Researchers Uncover New Protein Role in Hereditary Diseases

Five fingers on each hand, five toes on each foot – the entire symmetry of our body is controlled by the HOX genes during development. This group of genes is…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Method Measures Lithium-Ion Battery State Efficiently

Rechargeable batteries are at the heart of many new technologies involving, for example, the increased use of renewable energies. More specifically, they are…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Impact of Global Soy Trade on Climate Change Explained

Global soy trade is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions for multiple reasons. The conversion of natural vegetation into arable land is probably the most…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Nanolasers with 2D Semiconductors

In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University,…

Life & Chemistry

Antioxidant Reverses BPA Damage to Fertility

Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins, inner coatings for food cans and bottle tops, thermal paper…

Materials Sciences

New Method for Creating Functional Polymer Materials

The metal clusters were synthesized by means of wet chemistry adding gold and silver salts and ethynyladamantane molecules in a mixture of methanol and either…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Pure Red LEDs Enhance Display Technologies for Better Clarity

“Electrical engineers can already make bright LEDs using varying materials to produce different colors. But to improve display technologies, engineers must…

Materials Sciences

Fly Ash Geopolymer Concrete: Enhanced Alkali Resistance Unveiled

However, a critical durability problem has been low resistance to extreme alkali attack. Researchers at the University of Johannesburg have found that high…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Bacteria’s Carbon-Fixing Machinery: New Insights

New CU Boulder research published today in Science Advances shows how these specialized compartments, known as carboxysomes, work and how their activity can be…

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