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Smartphones Slim Down: Stunning Cameras, Less Bulk

The new wave of smartphones to hit the market all come with incredible cameras that produce brilliant photos. There's only one complaint — the thick camera…

Physics & Astronomy

Axion Particles Detected in Solid-State Crystal Breakthrough

The team found signatures of axion particles composed of Weyl-type electrons (Weyl fermions) in the correlated Weyl semimetal (TaSe₄)₂I. At room temperature,…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Balances Autoimmunity and Antibody Production

B cells are white blood cells that generate antibodies against an almost unlimited number of pathogens, a capacity that is vital for any higher organism….

Physics & Astronomy

Cesium Vapor Enhances Dark Matter Detection Efforts

The hunt for dark matter is one of the most exciting challenges facing fundamental physics in the 21st century. Researchers have long known that it must exist,…

Life & Chemistry

Plants’ Response to Fungi: Insights Into Nature’s Defense

Plants are under constant pressure from fungi and other microorganisms. The air is full of fungal spores, which attach themselves to plant leaves and…

Information Technology

Halle Researchers Unveil High-Performance Diodes and Transistors

With their new concept, the researchers at MLU want to improve the properties of diodes and transistors. Common processors use thousands of diodes and…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists from Ulm put Einstein to the test – Atomic clock on space-time voyage: a quantum-mechanical twin paradox

Physicists from Einstein's hometown Ulm and from Hannover have taken on the challenge of investigating the intersections of the theory of relativity and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Integrated Time Magnifier Enhances Short Signal Detection

The steadily increasing usage of streaming services, online games and social media results in ever-increasing data rates and thus ever shorter signals in the…

Physics & Astronomy

Newborn Stars Discovered in Barnard 59’s Cosmic Cluster

The two baby stars were found in the [BHB2007] 11 system – the youngest member of a small stellar cluster in the Barnard 59 dark nebula, which is part of the…

Life & Chemistry

Fast Dance of Electron Spins: Unveiling Photoinduced Reactions

When a molecule is hit by light, in many cases a so-called “photoinduced” reaction is initiated. This can be thought of as the interplay of electron motion and…

Physics & Astronomy

More energy means more effects — in proton collisions

When a proton collides at high energy with another proton or atomic nucleus, the effect of the collision is a stream of secondary particles known as a jet in…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Weak Spots in Pathogenic Bacteria for Better Antibiotics

Antibiotics are still the most important weapon for combatting bacterial infections. But medical science is running out of “ammunition” because of more and…

Medical Engineering

NUS scientist designs 'express courier service' for immune cells

Immunotherapy is a promising cancer treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to fight cancer. It can be used as a primary treatment or in…

Health & Medicine

Targeting Rogue T Cells May Reverse Multiple Sclerosis in Mice

Multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disorder, is known to be driven by “helper” T cells, white blood cells that mount an inflammatory attack on the brain and…

Materials Sciences

Unique Material From Marine Sponges: TU Freiberg’s Innovation

The so-called “graphite” has unique structural, mechanical and thermal properties and could serve as a centimetre-thin catalyst for industry in the future. The…

Medical Engineering

New Optical Imager Enhances Dry Eye Disease Diagnosis

Researchers have developed a new non-invasive optical imaging system that promises to improve diagnosis and treatments for dry eye disease. Dry eye, which…

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