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Architecture & Construction

Mobile Smart Homes: DFKI & TU Berlin Enhance Living Accessibility

Turning one’s own four walls into a smart home is not a matter of the future anymore: speech-controlled assistants, intelligent gadgets and digital locks…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Water’s Role in Solving Renewable Energy Storage Challenges

Seasonal pumped hydropower storage (SPHS), an already established yet infrequently used technology, could be an affordable and sustainable solution to store…

Information Technology

Smallest All-Digital Circuit Unlocks 5 nm Semiconductor Advances

New or improved technologies, such as artificial intelligence, 5G cellular communications, and the Internet-of-Things, are expected to bring revolutionary…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Liquid Droplet Movement Generates Over 5 Volts of Energy

Researchers at Nagoya University and Kyushu University focused on energy from the tiny movement of liquid and developed a device that generates over 5 volts of…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Electrons: Linking Solids and Soft Matter Physics

Electrons are interesting particles that can modify their behavior according to their condition of existence. For instance, in a phenomenon called the…

Health & Medicine

UIC Researchers Uncover Unique Signatures in Blood Vessel Cells

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that endothelial cells — those that create the inner lining of blood vessels — have…

Life & Chemistry

Superresolution Imaging Reveals New Insights Into Mitochondria

“In our opinion, this finding fundamentally changes the way our cellular power plants work and will probably change the textbooks,” says Prof. Dr. Andreas…

Life & Chemistry

Wearable Medical Sensors: Enhanced Sensitivity for Health Monitoring

A biosensor is an electrochemical device that determines the composition of biological fluids in real- time. Blood glucose meters used by diabetic patients may…

Life & Chemistry

New Biochemical Compound Breaks Down Environmental Pollutants

A team headed by Dr. Robin Teufel from the Institute of Biology II at the University of Freiburg has discovered that O2 also reacts to flavin N5-peroxide with…

Life & Chemistry

Discover How Sea Mussels Help Mend Broken Hearts

On wind- and wave-swept coasts, they adhere stoically to rocks, boats and jetties: sea mussels. With super powers that make Spiderman turn pale, the mussel's…

Earth Sciences

First research results on the "spectacular meteorite fall" of Flensburg

A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was…

Information Technology

Sustainable AI: New Computing Circuit from Politecnico di Milano

A research group from Politecnico di Milano has developed a new computing circuit that can execute advanced operations, typical of neural networks for…

Life & Chemistry

New Method for Catalyst Deposition on Fragile Chips

Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Duisburg-Essen have developed a new method of depositing catalyst particles to tiny…

Life & Chemistry

Gold nanoclusters: new frontier for developing medication for treatment of Alzheimer's disease

In a new research article published in the Beijing-based National Science Review, scientists at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials…

Physics & Astronomy

Broadband Metasurfaces Enhance Electromagnetic Beam Forming

In 2014, digital coding and programmable metasurfaces were proposed, which make it possible to manipulate the EM waves from the digital aspect, building up a…

Materials Sciences

Freiburg Researcher Explores Origins of Surface Texture

Prof. Dr. Lars Pastewka from the Simulation group at the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg and his team have simulated such…

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