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Innovation boost for “learning factory”: European research project “SemI40” generates path-breaking findings

Machinery, plant, equipment, logistics and products communicate and cooperate across the globe and across the entire value chain. The aim is to make production…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Milk Mayonnaise: Exploring Emulsifiers’ Impact

Milk mayonnaise can also be made at home simply by mixing oil with milk using a mixer. At the molecular level, the two emulsifiers casein and whey play an…

Physics & Astronomy

Switchable Plasmons in Plastics: A Breakthrough in Nanoantennas

Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultrafast Microscopy Reveals Single Nanocrystals Insights

Ultrafast microscopy studies entirely rely on detecting nanoparticles or single molecules with luminescence techniques, which require efficient emitters to…

Life & Chemistry

Predicting a protein's behavior from its appearance

Researchers at the Laboratory of Protein Design & Immunoengineering (LPDI), part of EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering at the School of Engineering, working…

Earth Sciences

Kiel Study Reveals New Insights Into Antarctic Ice Structure

The Antarctic is one of the parts of earth that we know the least about. Due to the massive ice shield, the collection of geophysical information on site is…

Earth Sciences

Tropical Africa’s Role in Global Methane Increase Uncovered

“One of the suggestions for the continued rise in atmospheric methane, based on ground-based data, is that tropical sources have increased,” says Mark Lunt, an…

Materials Sciences

Detours May Enhance Battery Performance for Future Tech

Here's a case where detours speed up traffic. The result may be better batteries for transportation, electronics and solar energy storage.

Architecture & Construction

Formula 1 Tech Inspires Skyscraper Design at City University

City, University London draws on Formula 1 technology for the construction of “needle-like” skyscrapers.

Information Technology

AI Software Tool Enhances Cancer Cell Identification for Doctors

The spatial distribution of different types of cells can reveal a cancer's growth pattern, its relationship with the surrounding microenvironment, and the…

Health & Medicine

Nanoparticles Illuminate Solutions for Cardiovascular Issues

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key…

Information Technology

New Computer Chip Design Integrates Processing and Storage

A computer chip processes and stores information using two different devices. If engineers could combine these devices into one or put them next to each other,…

Life & Chemistry

Could dark carbon be hiding the true scale of ocean 'dead zones'?

The regions are created when large amounts of organic material produced by algae sinks towards the seafloor, using up the oxygen present in the deep water.

Earth Sciences

Cool the Earth: The Impact of an Ice-Free Arctic Ocean

Scientists estimate that summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean will be largely gone within a generation. This is bad news for the world, as ice and snow reflect a…

Medical Engineering

Stroke therapy – study shows positive effects of Urokinase

Since 2015, the mechanical removal of the blood clot (endovascular mechanical thrombectomy) has been the standard procedure for treating patients with an…

Environmental Conservation

Wie ganze Ökosysteme langfristig auf die Erderwärmung reagieren

Ein internationales Team unter Beteiligung des Ökologen Andreas Richter von der Universität Wien untersuchte in einem einzigartigen Experiment die Reaktionen…

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