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Coral Reef Symposium in Bremen Postponed to Next Year

“This decision was a difficult one to make for our partners and our team but it was necessary,” says Professor Christian Wild from the University of Bremen….

Social Sciences

Understanding Algorithmic Selection in Online Services

Services like Google, WhatsApp, Instagram or Netflix are based on algorithmic selection: They automatically select the content that is presented to us and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Ions in Motion: Exploring Sodium Chloride’s Water Chemistry

In chemistry, common table salt is also known as sodium chloride. If this salt is dissolved in water, sodium and chloride atoms dissolve as positively or…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Lade-PV Project Launches Vehicle-Integrated Solar Innovation

In the coming three years, not only singular components, such as PV modules and power electronic units, but also manufacturing and production concepts will be…

Materials Sciences

Real-Time Capture of 3D Microstructures at CNM

Researchers at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at the DOE's Argonne…

Life & Chemistry

First SARS-CoV-2 Genomes in Austria Now Openly Available

The COVID-19 outbreak caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 March 2020. It is thought to…

Life & Chemistry

Urban Fish Sleep Disrupted by Light Pollution: Study Insights

Melatonin regulates the day-night rhythm in humans and vertebrates. Organs, tissue and cells set their internal clock depending on the level of this hormone….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Rain for Hydrovoltaics: Power from Every Drop

Water drops sliding over non-conducting surfaces can be found everywhere in our lives: From the dripping of a coffee machine, to a rinse in the shower, to an…

Information Technology

Flora Incognita App Boosts Plant Identification Tenfold

In the “Flora Incognita” project, scientists from the Technical University of Ilmenau and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena are working on…

Interdisciplinary Research

Mini Bio-Logging: Next-Gen Sensor Network for Nature

“Our sensor network takes bio-logging to the next level,” says Simon Ripperger of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin who led the field deployments. Remote…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sustainable Batteries: Paving the Way for Climate Neutrality

The transformation to a climate-neutral society requires fundamental changes in the way we generate and use energy. Batteries are a key enabler to reach this…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists see energy gap modulations in a cuprate superconductor

For years physicists have been trying to decipher the electronic details of high-temperature superconductors. These materials could revolutionize energy…

Information Technology

AI finds 2D materials in the blink of an eye

Two-dimensional materials offer an exciting new platform for the creation of electronic devices, such as transistors and light-emitting diodes. The family of…

Health & Medicine

New 3D cultured cells mimic the progress of NASH

In Japan, about 10 million of people (8% of the population) are thought to carry NASH or to be at high risk for NASH. In the USA, a ballpark estimate indicates…

Life & Chemistry

Blocking Iron Transport: A New Approach to Tuberculosis

The rise of multidrug resistant M. tuberculosis strains, which are resistant to many of the most effective anti-tuberculosis drugs, is particularly worrying….

Materials Sciences

Graphene-based actuator swarm enables programmable deformation

Generally, bilayer structures are widely used for design and fabrication of stimuli responsive actuators. In the past decade, to pursue fast and large-scale…

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