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New X-Ray Testing System Enhances Defect Detection at Landshut

Since the beginning of July and new x-ray testing system at Landshut University of Applied Sciences has been providing the perfect perspective.

Life & Chemistry

Cause of early cellular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease recognized for the first time

The brains of Alzheimer's patients who have already developed clinical symptoms contain large clumps of the protein beta-amyloid, known as plaques. Many…

Life & Chemistry

What’s important?

Based on insights from studying basic mechanisms of gene regulation and human hereditary diseases, it was previously assumed that the three-dimensional…

Materials Sciences

Neural Networks Enhance Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Process

“A major hindrance to unlocking the vast potential of nanotubes is their multiphase manufacturing process which is extremely difficult to manage. We have suggested using artificial neural networks (ANN) to analyze experimental data and predict the efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesis,” explains one of the authors of the study and Skoltech researcher, Dmitry Krasnikov. In their work published in the prestigious Carbon journal, the authors show that machine learning methods, and, in particular, ANN trained on experimental parameters, such…

Health & Medicine

Brain Stimulation Enhances Motor Learning: Key Insights

When exactly does the brain “remember” a newly learned motor sequence? Previously, it was assumed that the stabilization of learned motor processes does not…

Materials Sciences

Designer Clothing That Powers Up While Keeping You Fresh

A new addition to your wardrobe may soon help you turn on the lights and music – while also keeping you fresh, dry, fashionable, clean and safe from the latest…

Information Technology

Self healing robots that "feel pain"

Soon robots will not only be found in factories and laboratories, but will be assisting us in our immediate environment. They will help us in the household, to…

Life & Chemistry

Nature’s Water Splitting: The Key to Sustainable Energy

The splitting of two water molecules into oxygen using sunlight is the first step of photosynthesis, a process performed by plants and cyanobacteria. The…

Life & Chemistry

Bonn Study Identifies Key Proteins for Nerve Fiber Repair

It is commonly accepted that neurons of the central nervous system shut down their ability to grow when they no longer need it; this occurs normally after they…

Health & Medicine

How Brain Cells Choose Connections Based on Experience

The major criterion for excitatory synapse selection is based on how well they engage in response to experience-driven neural activity, but how such selection…

Materials Sciences

Scientists create the world's thinnest gold

The researchers measured the thickness of the gold to be 0.47 nanometres – that is one million times thinner than a human finger nail. The material is regarded…

Materials Sciences

Ionic Thermal Up-Diffusion Enhances Energy Harvesting Efficiency

Previous efforts focusing on the nanofluidic energy conversion system mainly deal with the isothermal conditions. Conventional viewpoint suggests that…

Medical Engineering

Amyloid is a less accurate marker for measuring severity, progression of Alzheimer's

While the presence of beta-amyloid plaques in the brain may be a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, giving patients an amyloid PET scan is not an effective…

Information Technology

Robots Landing Like Birds: Insights from Gary’s Success

Gary's successful touchdown on the Teflon – and on other perches of varying materials – is teaching researchers how they might create machines that land like a…

Environmental Conservation

New Study: Bacteria Can’t Decompose Polluting Microplastics

Our waters are polluted with microplastics. Whether it’s fibres from fleece pullovers, plastic pellets from toothpaste or disintegrating plastic bags and…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights into Electron Dynamics in Transition Metals

The researchers from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the MPSD (Germany), the Center for Computational Sciences of University of Tsukuba (Japan) and the Center for…

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