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Artificial intelligence in the fight against river blindness

The black fly bite mainly infects people in sub-Saharan Africa with larvae of the nematode Onchocerca volvulus, the trigger of onchocerciasis, also known as…

Information Technology

Danger over the phone

The security experts at Fraunhofer SIT tested a total of 33 VoIP telephone devices from 25 different manufacturers for flaws and vulnerabilities. For this…

Information Technology

All-optical diffractive neural network closes performance gap with electronic neural networks

A new paper in Advanced Photonics, an open-access journal co-published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Chinese Laser Press…

Physics & Astronomy

Mapping the energetic landscape of solar cells

A new spectroscopic method now makes it possible to measure and visualise the energetic landscape inside solar cells based on organic materials. It was…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Enzyme PHLPP1’s Role in Sepsis Treatment

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine recently found that removing the enzyme PHLPP1 improved outcomes in a mouse model of…

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4th Hybrid Materials and Structures 2020 28 – 29 April 2020, Karlsruhe, Germany

Very often, innovative materials act as trailblazers for the introduction of new technologies and products. Hybrid materials and structures made or joined from…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Develop “Time Machine” for Materials Science

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Freie Universität Berlin, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) hope to create a machine…

Materials Sciences

First Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers Synthesized at Samara Polytech

Under the leadership of the head of the laboratory for the synthesis of new crystalline materials of the Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science…

Life & Chemistry

Supercapacitors Boosted by Laxatives: New Ionic Liquid Insights

Their paper, published today in the journal Nature Materials, explains why these detergents, called ionic liquids, are better electrolytes than current…

Medical Engineering

Transforming Hip Surgery: Virtual Operating Room Innovations

Each year, more than 200,000 people receive a prosthetic hip in Germany. The success of these operations has a major impact on the quality of life of those…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Saturation Mutagenesis: Uncovering Disease-Causing Mutations

Many diseases occur because a person’s DNA contains errors, so-called mutations. These cause vital protein molecules to be produced incorrectly. Sometimes the…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Engineered to Mimic Cells and Form Communities

Rice University scientists have found a way to engineer a new kind of cell differentiation in bacteria, inspired by a naturally occurring process in stem cells.

Materials Sciences

New Composite Material Combines Dyes and Viruses for Photooxidation

'Our first challenge was to select the right photosensitizer,' says Eduardo Anaya, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, 'We decided to employ…

Physics & Astronomy

Schrödinger's Cat with 20 Qubits

In 1935, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger put forward the thought experiment with the quantum cat, in which the cat is enclosed in a box together with a…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Sensor Tech Tackles Vehicle Emissions In Cities

Today, air pollution is one of the biggest challenges facing European cities. As part of the Horizon 2020 research project CARES (City Air Remote Emission…

Physics & Astronomy

Advancing Laser and Sensor Tech with Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals

A group of researchers led by Professor Myakzyum Salakhov has been working on the problem of optical states in plasmonic-photonic crystals (PPCs). The group…

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