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Life & Chemistry

Understanding Retina Development: From Formation to Vision

How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system?

Medical Engineering

Gentle Diagnosis: Understanding Esophageal Disease Dynamics

In order to find out how the complex interaction of the oesophagus muscles is disturbed, a measuring catheter determines the pressure distribution over the…

Physics & Astronomy

Fermilab Sets New Record for Accelerator Magnet Field Strength

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Fermilab have announced that they achieved the highest magnetic field strength ever recorded for an accelerator…

Environmental Conservation

Plastics, fuels and chemical feedstocks from CO2? They're working on it

One way to reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is now at its highest point in 800,000 years, would be to capture the potent greenhouse…

Information Technology

Leveraging Cellular Networks for Enhanced Drone Communication

The communicative challenges facing drones are manifold: They need to communicate with a base station on the ground, but they must also be able to swap…

Event News

Society 5.0: Human-Centric Innovation in Digitalization

At the conference, which is taking place at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), speakers from Europe and Asia will take a holistic view of this highly…

Trade Fair News

AI-Driven Media Content Analysis Unveiled at IBC 2019

Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms, state-of-the-art technologies can be used to automatically extract metadata from audio,…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Confirm Supersolid State of Matter Breakthrough

In our everyday lives, we are familiar with matter existing in three different states: solid, liquid, or gas. However, if matter is cooled down to extremely…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New World Record Set for Tandem Perovskite-CIGS Solar Cell

Perovskite-based solar cells have experienced an incredibly rapid increase in efficiency over the last ten years. The combination of perovskites with classical…

Life & Chemistry

Discover How Brain Rhythms Shape Visual Perception

Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding competition, keeping track of a red and orange glider’s skillful movements. Our brain uses separate…

Materials Sciences

New Spintronics Material Boosts Efficient Data Processing

Electric current flows through all technical devices. Heat is generated and energy is lost. Spintronics explores new approaches to solving this issue that…

Physics & Astronomy

Magnetization Meets Superconductivity for Quantum Breakthroughs

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize the ways in which scientists can process and manipulate information. The physical and material underpinnings for…

Life & Chemistry

Key Enzyme in Plants May Shape Future Medicines

Plants can do many amazing things. Among their talents, they can manufacture compounds that help them repel pests, attract pollinators, cure infections and…

Life & Chemistry

Warm Top, Cold Bottom: Surprising Greenhouse Gas Effects in Lakes

Lakes play an important role in the global carbon cycle, acting as large natural bioreactors. The temperature of a lake represents an important constraint on…

Life & Chemistry

Impact of Gut Microbiome on Flu Vaccine Immune Response

The research team examined 33 healthy adult participants in their study. One group of 22 volunteers was studied during the 2014-2015 flu season, and the second…

Materials Sciences

New Insights on Charge Density in High-Temperature Superconductors

High critical temperature superconductors have a variable charge density, meaning that their electrical charge is unevenly distributed. This partly results…

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