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Life & Chemistry

How Cancer Cells Evade the Immune System: Key Insights

The team headed by Prof. Dr. Maja Banks-Köhn and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schamel from the excellence clusters for biological signaling studies CIBSS and BIOSS at…

Life & Chemistry

Nanotechnology: Putting a nanomachine to work

Molecular motors are chemical compounds that convert energy into directed motions. For example, it is possible to cause a substituent attached to a specific…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Perovskite solar cells: International consensus on ageing measurement protocols

Commercially available solar modules undergo a series of characterisation procedures that analyse their properties and ensure quality. However, these methods…

Medical Engineering

Wearable health tech gets efficiency upgrade

In a paper published in Applied Energy, the NC State researchers report significant enhancements to the flexible body heat harvester they first reported in…

Earth Sciences

Sustainability as a Selling Point for New Food Ingredients

Researchers from the University of Nottingham's School of Biosciences tested Biscotti and crackers made with Bambara groundnut against standard commercial…

Physics & Astronomy

Giant Bubbles: Unlocking Secrets of Fluid Mechanics

The journal Physical Review Fluids published the results of the study by physicists at Emory University. The findings could potentially lead to improving…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Research to Enhance Cleaner Energy Technologies

New research led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York, could aid cleaner energy technologies.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Advancements in Electronic Nose for Air Quality and Health

Recently published research led by Cory Simon, assistant professor of chemical engineering in the OSU College of Engineering, in collaboration with chemical…

Earth Sciences

Robotic Submarine Captures First Images of Antarctic Glacier

The images, taken by a robotic underwater vehicle, were part of a broad set of data collected in a variety of experiments by an international team. The…

Health & Medicine

Resetting Internal Clocks: A New Approach to Diabetes Control

The circadian clock system (from Latin “circa diem”, about a day) allows the organisms to anticipate periodical changes of geophysical time, and to adjust to…

Physics & Astronomy

Fast-Rotating White Dwarf Creates Cosmic Space-Time Dance

In 1999, a unique binary system was discovered with the Australian Parkes Radio Telescope in the constellation Musca (the Fly), close to the famous Southern…

Life & Chemistry

Measure Hormones with Poop: A Simple Approach to Testosterone

Testosterone is the main reproductive hormone in male vertebrates. Conventional methods to assess testosterone rely on invasive blood sampling procedures,…

Physics & Astronomy

NRL researchers' golden touch enhances quantum technology

“We never expected these atomically thin materials could influence the ordering of all of the atoms in such a relatively large slab of gold,” said Jeremy…

Medical Engineering

New Injection Technique May Enhance Spinal Cord Injury Repair

Writing in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine, an international research team, led by physician-scientists at University of California San Diego…

Physics & Astronomy

Coupled Quantum Dots: A New Approach to Quantum Information Storage

Such “coupled” quantum dots could serve as a robust quantum bit, or qubit, the fundamental unit of information for a quantum computer. Moreover, the patterns…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Self-learning heat­ing control system saves energy

Factory halls, airport terminals and high-rise office buildings are often equipped with automated “anticipatory” heating systems. These work with pre-defined…

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