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FaceHaptics – Simulation for all senses in VR

In recent years, the games industry has continued to develop so-called immersive games based on virtual reality (VR). While audio-visual VR systems are limited…

Machine Engineering

EU project GALACTIC develops supply chain for Alexandrite laser crystals

Laser systems in earth observation satellites generate data for the analysis of the earth's atmosphere and surface.

Earth Sciences

Most of Earth's carbon was hidden in the core during its formative years

Now, a team of scientists reports March 30 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative…

Physics & Astronomy

BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses

In synchrotron radiation sources such as BESSY II, electron bunches orbit the storage ring at almost the speed of light. They are forced to emit extremely…

Life & Chemistry

Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars

Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria…

Health & Medicine

Geneticists Enhance Personal Medicine for Recently Admixed Individuals

“The information contained in our DNA is a mosaic of genetic instructions inherited from our ancestors, and in many societies one's ancestors often come from…

Materials Sciences

Easy Dirt Removal: Clean Surfaces Effortlessly

All surfaces in our daily lives become dirty over time with particles such as dust, pollen or microorganisms. Therefore, surfaces are desirable that are easy…

Information Technology

TU Graz Develops Fast, Affordable Pollen Measurement System

Pollen: essential for the pollination of many plants, but the bane of allergy sufferers. Pollen warning services provide information about daily exposure and…

Earth Sciences

A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have now…

Physics & Astronomy

Heavy-electron quantum criticality and single-particle spectroscopy

Quantum criticality itself, however, turned out to come in different manifestations. Specifically in transition metal compounds, quantum criticality can…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Soil-less sustainability: Novel agricultural crop production incorporating water reuse

Is it possible to minimize the extensive water consumption in agricultural crop production by water reuse? And can valuable nutrients from wastewater be…

Event News

13th AKL – International Laser Technology Congress: May 4–6, 2022 in Aachen – Laser Technology Live already this year!

However, so that interested parties do not have to wait another two years for the live demonstrations in Europe's largest laser system park, which are firmly…

Life & Chemistry

The architecture of a 'shape-shifting' norovirus

Created from 13,000 separate images taken by an electron microscope, it reveals in rich detail the structure of the virus. It shows bump-like protrusions on…

Physics & Astronomy

Extreme high-frequency signals enable terabits-per-second data links

Using the same technology that allows high-frequency signals to travel on regular phone lines, researchers tested sending extremely high-frequency, 200 GHz…

Life & Chemistry

Less expensive, more effective pneumonia vaccines are tested in humans

A novel vaccine against pneumonia that is less expensive and more effective than those currently used in Brazil is being tested in human patients. Developed by…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-size black hole

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are a long-sought “missing link” in black hole evolution. There have been a few other IMBH candidates found to date.

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