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Life & Chemistry

Cells Combat Invaders: Understanding Pathogen Recognition

When bacteria or the pathogens that cause malaria invade living human cells, these cells can be very unwelcoming. They try to drive away the by releasing…

Medical Engineering

Contactless Method for Detecting COVID-19 Infections

An innovative measurement method is helping to detect people infected with coronavirus from a safe distance. It detects fever, increased pulse rates and fast…

Life & Chemistry

Crohn’s disease: Preserving inflammation-free phases

Intestinal stem cell metabolism is facilitated by mitochondria – the in-cell power plants. Chronic inflammation processes inhibit the cells’ metabolism and…

Information Technology

AI Decision-Making: Balancing Opportunities and Risks

Artificial intelligence is a very powerful tool for solving complex problems and handling huge amounts of random data. Its use allows to translate languages…

Materials Sciences

New Handle on Electromagnetic Properties Boosts Spintronic Computing

Materials scientists at Duke University have shown the first clear example that a material's transition into a magnet can control instabilities in its…

Environmental Conservation

iEcology: Bridging Online Data and Nature Insights

Even though we often assume that our online enthusiasm alienates us from nature, the huge and ever-increasing amount of data on the Internet conceals a lot of…

Information Technology

New Silicon Modulator Sets New Standards in Size and Speed

Researchers developed and demonstrated for the first time a silicon-based electro-optical modulator that is smaller, as fast as and more efficient than…

Life & Chemistry

Cells Combat Infection by Depleting Surface Cholesterol

Cells in some of the body's most vulnerable entry routes to bacterial infection buffer themselves when the immune system detects danger by reorganizing the…

Life & Chemistry

Visualizing Genetic Mutation Evolution with New Algorithm

Described in Nature Communications, the algorithm called “minimum epistasis interpolation” results in a visualization of how a protein could evolve to either…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Attachable Sticker-Type Rechargeable Batteries: A New Era

Dr. Yoon Hana at Energy Conversion & Storage Materials Laboratory of Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER, President Kim Jong-nam), Professor Kim Young-Jin…

Materials Sciences

Designing Lubricants: Insights from Computer Characterization

In order to develop a new lubricant or to improve upon an existing one, it is important to precisely understand its behavior: pressure, temperature, shear rate…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Boosts Temperature-Dependent Terahertz Radiation

Terahertz rays are electromagnetic waves, just like radio waves or light. What differentiates them is the frequency with which they oscillate: one hundred…

Health & Medicine

Exploring 3D Nipple Structure to Advance Breast Cancer Research

Conventional reconstruction from multiple two-dimensional tissue slices is a laborious process, is invasive, and does not give a clear understanding of the 3D…

Physics & Astronomy

Future Optical Transistors: Advancements in Nanophotonics

Leading research groups in the field of nanophotonics are working toward developing optical transistors – key components for future optical computers. These…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Organelle Disorders and Cell Impact

The study led by Professor Michael Schrader from the University of Exeter, and featuring an international, multi-disciplinary team of scientists, has explored…

Materials Sciences

New Hybrid Material Emerges as Efficient Photodetector

A hybrid material, developed in Dresden, fulfils both these requirements. Himani Arora, a physics PhD student at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR),…

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