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Power and Electrical Engineering

EU Project SONAR: Advancing Batteries for Renewable Energy

The benefits of an RFB system depend on many aspects: The perfect, redox-active material should smoothly accept or release electrons, while being soluble,…

Materials Sciences

Miniature Double Glazing: Innovative Heat-Insulating Material

Thermal insulation and thermal conduction play a crucial role in our everyday lives – from computer processors, where it is important to dissipate heat as…

Environmental Conservation

ZMT-Expert Aids Implementation of Palau’s Marine Reserve

On 1 January 2020, the island state of Palau implemented an unparalleled marine sanctuary in its territorial waters: the Palau National Marine Sanctuary. It is…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Brain Insights: How Decisions Really Unfold

Some things we do appear almost automatic, such as opening the fridge when feeling hungry. Although such decisions do not seem to take much thought, they are…

Life & Chemistry

Neuromuscular organoid: It’s contracting!

The Gouti lab from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) has developed functional neuromuscular organoids (NMOs)…

Health & Medicine

Mutations in donors' stem cells may cause problems for cancer patients

A stem cell transplant — also called a bone marrow transplant — is a common treatment for blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Life & Chemistry

A new 'cool' blue

For the last 200 years, cobalt blue (CoAl2O4) has been a dominant commercial blue pigment because of its color intensity, ease of synthesis and versatility.

Health & Medicine

Overactive Brain Waves Linked to Essential Tremor Causes

Now a new study from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian suggests the tremors are caused by overactive brain waves at the base…

Event News

11th Advanced Battery Power Conference, March 24-25, 2020 in Münster/Germany

One of the highlights of the growing battery business worldwide, the 11th International Advanced  Battery Conference 2020, March 24-25, 2020 in Münster,…

Earth Sciences

New Insights on Subsea Gas Reserves in Europe’s Ice-Like Deposits

Vast amounts of natural gas are stored in an ice-like form beneath the seabed, under the deep seafloor, close to edge of the landmasses that form our…

Earth Sciences

NASA, NOAA Analyze 2019 as Second Hottest Year Recorded

Globally, 2019 temperatures were second only to those of 2016 and continued the planet's long-term warming trend: the past five years have been the warmest of…

Process Engineering

Engineered Nanomaterial Cleans Pesticide-Polluted Water

Atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in North America. Researchers at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) have developed a…

Physics & Astronomy

Fraunhofer IAF Launches Quantum Sensors Application Lab

The application laboratory is being set up as part of the Fraunhofer lighthouse project »QMag«, short for quantum magnetometry. In this project, researchers…

Physics & Astronomy

MOSHEMT—innovative transistor technology reaches record frequencies

The high frequency characteristics of high eElectron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have been steadily improved in the past years. The transistors have become…

Earth Sciences

Climate factor clouds — the field campaign “EUREC4A” intends to answer one of climate sciences great mysteries

The French-German initiated field study involves more than 40 partner institutions and the deployment of five research aircrafts, four research vessels, ground…

Health & Medicine

Gene ELOVL2 Linked to Eye Aging: New Research Insights

A lengthy-named gene called Elongation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids Protein 2 or ELOVL2 is an established biomarker of age. In a new paper, published online…

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