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New Shoe Helps Stroke Patients Improve Walking Gait

Stroke sufferers experience muscle weakness or partial paralysis on one side of the body, which greatly impacts how they walk, known as gait. Gait asymmetry is…

Physics & Astronomy

Mimicking Expert Crystallographers with New Statistical Inference

A research team from Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), RIKEN, and the University of Tokyo developed a novel data analysis method for prior evaluation…

Materials Sciences

Scientists' design discovery doubles conductivity of indium oxide transparent coatings

Tin doped indium oxide -ITO – is the leading material used in the coating applied to the glass or clear plastic of touch screens, solar cells and light…

Medical Engineering

Handheld Device Promises Better Skin Cancer Diagnosis

Even the best dermatologists can't diagnose skin cancer by eye, relying on magnifying glasses to examine suspicious blemishes and scalpels to cut tissue for…

Life & Chemistry

Greenhouse Gas Compounds Isolated by Warwick Chemists

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent atmospheric pollutant. Although naturally occurring, anthropogenic N2O emissions from intensive agricultural fertilisation,…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Create Fully Electronic 2D Spin Transistors for Low-Power Devices

Spintronics is an attractive alternative way of creating low-power electronic devices. It is not based on a charge current but on a current of electron spins….

Life & Chemistry

Study gives clues to the origin of Huntington's disease, and a new way to find drugs

Developed in the lab of Ali Brivanlou, the Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor, the system uses neuroloids–tiny, three-dimensional tissue cultures that…

Life & Chemistry

New Energy Production Unit Boosts Synthetic Cell Development

'Our aim is the bottom-up construction of a synthetic cell that can sustain itself and that can grow and divide,' explains University of Groningen Professor of…

Materials Sciences

New Ceramic Heat Shields Enhance Economical Aircraft Design

To make aircrafts more economical, environmentally friendly and robust, Fraunhofer engineers from Dresden have developed a new ceramic heat shield technology….

Materials Sciences

3D Printed Turbine: A Leap in Component Optimization

The component assembly consists of 68 parts made of aluminium, steel and titanium, which through component optimisation and the possibilities of Electron and…

Materials Sciences

New Insights on Electron Scattering in 2D Materials

Understanding how particles behave at the twilight zone between the macro and the quantum world gives us access to fascinating phenomena, interesting from both…

Health & Medicine

New Anti-Cancer Nanomedicine Enhances Chemotherapy Efficiency

Exosomes contain various molecular constituents of their cell of origin, including proteins and RNA. Now the researchers have harnessed them together with…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Biomolecular Dynamics with Time-Resolved Crystallography

The functions of biomolecules are determined by their motions and structural changes. Yet it is a formidable challenge to understand these dynamic motions.

Environmental Conservation

Fungicides Impact on Freshwater Organisms: A Hidden Threat

The researchers investigated whether fungicides regularly used in agriculture such as tebuconazole or azoxystrobin influence the growth of aquatic fungi. In…

Earth Sciences

Geochemists measure new composition of Earth’s mantle

What is the chemical composition of the Earth’s interior?

Materials Sciences

Individualization of Products in Mass Production within the Fraunhofer Lighthouse Project »Go Beyond 4.0«

Six Fraunhofer Institutes (ENAS, IFAM, ILT, IOF, ISC and IWU) have succeeded to manufacture electrical conductor patterns, sensors, and high-tech lighting…

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