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Physics & Astronomy

'Nanochains' could increase battery capacity, cut charging time

Materials with a higher lithium ion storage capacity are either too heavy or the wrong shape to replace graphite, the electrode material currently used in…

Life & Chemistry

Fluid Fingerprints: Hurricanes and El Niño’s Impact

The climatic phenomenon ‘El Niño/Southern Oscillation’ leads repeatedly in the Mesoamerican and Caribbean regions to natural catastrophes – extreme droughts…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Talin’s Self-Inhibitory Mechanism

All complex organisms are made up of cells that are in contact with each other or with structures in intercellular spaces. Cells have contact points on their…

Medical Engineering

New Sensors Track Heart and Brain Activity with Precision

Electrical signals measurements such as the ECG (electrocardiogram) can show how the human brain or heart works. Next to electrical signals magnetic signals…

Medical Engineering

New Superresolution Microscopy Advances Motion Pictures of Cells

This graphics card normally helps computer gamers to have a great gaming experience. The researchers, however, use it to observe the smallest cell components…

Power and Electrical Engineering

DGIST Breaks Records With Flexible CZTSSe Thin-Film Solar Cell

Flexible thin-film solar cell can be applied in various fields such as wearable, building, and automobiles based on the flexible substrate technology.

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Observe Radiation Damage in Femtoseconds at NTU

The technique involves dissolving organic molecules in water to simulate the state molecules are found in biological tissue. This allows the research team to…

Event News

Optical Technologies: International Symposium „Future Optics“ in Hannover

The 21st century will be the age of optics: Optical fibre networks are the backbone of modern mobile communication technology. High-resolution camera systems…

Life & Chemistry

Build Your Own Protein Factory: A Guide to Ribosome Innovation

Cells consist of a multitude of molecular structures, some of them exhibiting a staggering complexity. Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, belong to…

Life & Chemistry

New Protein Discovery Enhances Quality Control in Cells

A protective protein that can detect newly-made incomplete and hence potentially toxic protein chains in higher cells is found to have a relative in bacteria….

Life & Chemistry

New tool improves beekeepers' overwintering odds and bottom line

Beekeepers have been losing an average of 30 percent of overwintered colonies for nearly 15 years. It is expensive to overwinter colonies in areas where winter…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Target Discovered in Cancer Research Breakthrough

Researchers have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against cancer.

Physics & Astronomy

Study Reveals Six Galaxies in Dramatic Transitional Phases

Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and brightnesses, ranging from humdrum ordinary galaxies to luminous active galaxies. While an ordinary galaxy…

Physics & Astronomy

Stevens team closes in on 'holy grail' of room temperature quantum computing chips

To process information, photons must interact. However, these tiny packets of light want nothing to do with each other, each passing by without altering the…

Information Technology

Advanced AI Enhances Eye Image Analysis for Ophthalmologists

Modern medical imaging devices allow ophthalmologists to monitor chronic eye conditions in detail. Ophthalmologists mostly choose Optical Coherence Tomography…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Create Tumour Growth Roadmap for Surgeons

“Our approach equips surgeons with a roadmap for the surgical removal of tumours, giving patients a much better chance of survival, reducing the likelihood of…

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