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Life & Chemistry

Mobile EpiLab by Fraunhofer IBMT Enhances SARS-CoV-2 Detection

Fraunhofer IBMT’s mobile epidemiological laboratory (epiLab), designed in cooperation with vehicle manufacturer Bischoff & Scheck within the project…

Information Technology

Scientists in Tübingen develop 3D head model that can be used to design better-fitting protective gear

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany have developed a statistical three-dimensional (3D) model of the human…

Earth Sciences

Test Center Maritime Tech Launches 45m Draught Research Area

Research on the open sea has up until now been either impossible or only possible under challenging conditions. Anyone wishing to investigate large components…

Materials Sciences

Electrostatic Charge Assembles Microparticles into Gemstone-Like Materials

Using just electrostatic charge, common microparticles can spontaneously organize themselves into highly ordered crystalline materials–the equivalent of table…

Earth Sciences

New Study Reveals Insights on Sleeping Supervolcano

“Huge volcanic eruptions from so-called supervolcanoes are very unusual, but when they happen they are extremely devastating. It’s incredibly important for…

Social Sciences

Women and Earnings: Navigating the Gender Partnership Gap

In recent years and decades, substantial progress has been made in the area of gender equality: women have caught up to or even overtaken men in terms of…

Life & Chemistry

Bayreuth Scientists Uncover Key Mechanism in Cell Death Against Cancer

With this study, the Bayreuth researchers are following up on their contribution to the regulation of separase recently published in “Nature”. The strict…

Information Technology

New Design Enhances Energy Efficiency in Fiber Communications

The University of Pennsylvania, Peking University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology worked on a project funded, in part by the Army Research Office,…

Physics & Astronomy

First Comprehensive Geological Map of the Moon Released

For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and…

Life & Chemistry

New blood test for Alzheimer’s developed

The research behind the test was headed by Kaj Blennow, Professor of Clinical Neurochemistry, and Henrik Zetterberg, Professor of Neurochemistry, at…

Medical Engineering

New Computational Lung Model Improves Ventilation for ARDS

For patients suffering from acute lung failure (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, ARDS), mechanical ventilation is a lifesaving treatment.

Environmental Conservation

Biodegradable Microcapsules: Nature’s Decomposition Process

Natural substances are inherently biodegradable. They are undergoing a natural decomposition process in which organic matter is broken down by enzymes of…

Physics & Astronomy

Attraction or Repulsion? New Insights on Active Particles

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization show that two microscopic non-equilibrium chemically active particles, such as…

Physics & Astronomy

Organic Memory Devices: A Leap Forward in Wearable Computing

The advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things is expected to change modern electronics and bring forth the fourth…

Physics & Astronomy

High-Quality Boron Nitride Grown at Atmospheric Pressure

Graphene Flagship researchers at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and ONERA-CNRS, France, in collaboration with researchers at the Peter Grunberg Institute,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Penn Engineering's new scavenger technology allows robots to 'eat' metal for energy

When electronics need their own power sources, there are two basic options: batteries and harvesters. Batteries store energy internally, but are therefore…

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