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Physics & Astronomy

New Photon Source Enhances Tap-Proof Quantum Communication

A 15-member research team from the UK, Germany and Japan has developed a new method for generating and detecting quantum-entangled photons at a wavelength of…

Earth Sciences

Seafloor Study Reveals Microplastic Sink in Fram Strait

Working in the Arctic Fram Strait, scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have found microplastic…

Life & Chemistry

New Bacterial Metabolism Enhances Fermentation Processes

They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its intensive flavour: bacteria that ferment nutrients instead of using oxygen…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Autophagy’s Role in Brain Health

Scientists from the laboratory of Dr. Natalia Kononenko at the CECAD Center of Excellence in Aging Research at the University of Cologne have found out that…

Physics & Astronomy

Junior Scientists Create Innovative Light Funnel at Rostock

The quantum-optical properties of light and its interaction with matter has fascinated the Rostock professor Alexander Szameit since College.

Power and Electrical Engineering

3D Printer Sensors Enable New Breath Tests for Diabetes

The production of highly sensitive sensors is a complex process: it requires many different steps and the almost dust-free environment of special cleanrooms.

Materials Sciences

3D Printing Breakthrough: Complex Cellulose Objects Unveiled

A group of researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have now found a way to process cellulose using 3D printing so as to create objects of almost unlimited…

Life & Chemistry

Benzaldehyde Flavors May Form Benzene Under Light Exposure

According to the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR), benzene is mainly absorbed by our bodies via the air…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Unveils Venus Flytrap Effect in Immune Proteins

Time and again, humanity has been troubled by virus epidemics. Viruses can invade body cells and multiply inside them, often killing the infected cells and…

Life & Chemistry

Researching Sea-Sourced Virus Inhibitors at TU Freiberg

Responsible for the antiviral, antibacterial and antiparasitic effect are the so-called bromtyrosines, which the Aplysina sponge always produces when its…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Nanoscale Device Generates High-Power Terahertz Waves

Terahertz (THz) waves fall between microwave and infrared radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, oscillating at frequencies of between 100 billion and 30…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Streptavidin-Biotin Binding: Key Insights Unveiled

Recent research by Rafael C. Bernardi at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign examines why a common tool in biotechnology — the binding of…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Nanoparticle Therapy Delivery for Breast Cancer

Laboratory studies testing both methods in six models of breast cancer; five human cancer cell lines and one mouse cancer in mice with three variants of the…

Event News

“4th Hybrid Materials and Structures 2020” takes place over the internet

The following plenary speakers have signed up for the “4th Hybrid Materials and Structures 2020”:

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Unveiled for Cell Death and Inflammation

The scientists found that ZBP1, a protein best known for defending against incoming viruses, is activated by sensing an unusual form of cellular genetic…

Health & Medicine

Excess Salt Weakens Immunity: WHO’s 5-Gram Recommendation

Five grams a day, no more: This is the maximum amount of salt that adults should consume according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization…

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