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Norepinephrine’s Role in Brain Cell Helpers During Fear Memory

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) have visualized these dynamics in the living mouse brain for the first time, observing fast and slow…

Information Technology

New Chip Calculates Shortest Route Instantly for Libraries

How would you go about returning books to the correct shelves in a large library with the least amount of walking? How would you determine the shortest route…

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Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Trap Light in Nanoresonators for Record Duration

An international team of researchers from ITMO University, the Australian National University, and Korea University have experimentally trapped an…

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DYNAFLEX® at e-World 2020

The energy transition is a supporting pillar of structural change and requires a rethinking in many areas. In order to ensure that successful economic…

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Thinking fast & slow: New DFKI project aims at making Deep Learning methods more reliable

Scientists of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) now investigate how these methods can be proven by formal procedures and thus…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Reveals Age Clues in Fingerprint Residues

By determining the age of fingerprints, police could get an idea of who might have been present around the time a crime was committed. This information could,…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring the Global Presence of Large and Giant Viruses

While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city's population, the number of viruses in the same drop–the vast majority not harmful…

Health & Medicine

Stopping Cancer Metastasis by Targeting Lipid Production

They identified a factor called TGF-beta2 as the switch responsible for both lipid storage and the aggressive nature of cancer cells. Moreover, it appeared…

Information Technology

Integrating Microchips for Advanced Electronic Skin Innovation

Human skin is a fascinating and multifunctional organ with unique properties originating from its flexible and compliant nature. It allows for interfacing with…

Life & Chemistry

Dresden Researchers Uncover Cancer Resistance Mechanism

Researchers of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden at the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC), together with an international…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Electro-Pulse Plant at TU Freiberg Boosts High-Tech Metal Processing

Strategically important metals such as tungsten or indium are often trapped in massive rocks. Due to their complex metal phases and mineralogical composition,…

Life & Chemistry

Moon Jellyfish: How They Navigate the Ocean’s Depths

Moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) are common in almost all oceans. The cnidarians move about in the oceans with their translucent bells, which measure from three…

Life & Chemistry

New Self-Assembled Monolayer Offers Air Resistance Breakthrough

Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface….

Materials Sciences

New Nickelate Superconductor Displays 3D Metallic State

The discovery last year of the first nickel oxide material that shows clear signs of superconductivity set off a race by scientists around the world to find…

Life & Chemistry

New NMR Method Accelerates Atomic Structure Analysis

A new NMR-based method, developed at the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), now simplifies the analysis and produces more accurate…

Life & Chemistry

Mosquitoes are drawn to flowers as much as people — and now scientists know why

And without that sense of smell, mosquitoes could not locate their dominant source of food: nectar from flowers.

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