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Life & Chemistry

New Insights Transform Muscle Research Approaches

Anyone who climbs the 285 steps to the viewing platform of Berlin's Siegessäule, or Victory Column, will probably have quite a few sore muscles the next day.

Materials Sciences

Using a material's 'memory' to encode unique physical properties

A new study published in Science Advances found that certain types of materials have a “memory” of how they were processed, stored, and manipulated….

Life & Chemistry

New Cancer Drug Enters Clinical Trial Through Advanced Light Source

Unique Cancer Drug Discovered With Help From Advanced Light Source Begins Historical Clinical Trial

Materials Sciences

Researchers directly measure 'Cheerios effect' forces for the first time

Now a team of Brown University researchers has developed a way to measure the forces involved in this type of clustering. It's the first time, the researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Designing Stable Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy Solutions

Polymer electrolyte fuel cells display one of the key elements for the transformation of chemical into electrical energy. However, the currently employed…

Earth Sciences

Scientists find iron 'snow' in Earth's core

The snow is made of tiny particles of iron – much heavier than any snowflake on Earth's surface – that fall from the molten outer core and pile on top of the…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cell Linked to Checkpoint Inhibitor Failure in Lung Cancer

For many lung cancer patients, the best treatment options involve checkpoint inhibitors. These drugs unleash a patient's immune system against their disease…

Materials Sciences

Discover Exceptional Points in Information Processing Advances

“Our team experimentally detected an exceptional surface, a continuous three-dimensional curving surface of exceptional points,” said Xufeng Zhang, who led…

Health & Medicine

Discovering Sodium Channels: The Heartbeat’s Atomic Trigger

Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are…

Machine Engineering

Innovative Magnesium Components for Lightweight Construction

As part of the AMARETO project (Saxon Alliance for Material and Resource Efficient Technologies), the Institute for Metal Forming (IMF) has now produced cast…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Predator-Prey Cycles in Ecological Systems

Predator-prey cycles are among the fundamental phenomena of ecological systems: the population sizes of predators and their prey, for instance foxes and hares,…

Life & Chemistry

First images of an 'upgraded' CRISPR tool

In the new study, published today in Nature, the researchers harnessed a Nobel Prize-winning technique called cryo-electron microscopy to freeze the gene…

Physics & Astronomy

Graz University Successfully Launches OPS-SAT Satellite

The aim of the OPS-SAT mission, which is being controlled from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, is to carry out low-risk tests on…

Life & Chemistry

New Design Principle for Water-Splitting Catalysts Unveiled

The research, published in ACS Catalysis, helps to resolve a nearly century-old research question, the authors say. And it could aid in designing new catalysts…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's GISMO instrument maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic 'candy cane'

This image includes newly published observations using an instrument designed and built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Coating Hides Temperature Changes from Infrared Cameras

The new coating — engineered from samarium nickel oxide, a unique tunable material — employs a bit of temperature trickery.

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