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Health & Medicine

New Drug Target Discovered for Multiple Tumor Types at UC San Diego

A research team headed by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at UC San Diego has…

Life & Chemistry

Nucleolus: Discovering New Roles in Cellular Function

One would like to believe that the basic cellular processes have already been deciphered and that research can now focus on the details. But even today, new…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Chemical Bonds: What Happens When They Break?

On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds.

Information Technology

Artificial Neural Network Solves Condensed Matter Physics Puzzles

Is that a dog or a cat? Such a classification is a prime example of machine learning: artificial neural networks can be trained to analyze images by looking…

Life & Chemistry

How Plague Pathogens Outsmart the Immune System

Yersinia also includes the plague pathogen, which caused fear and terror worldwide until the discovery of antibiotics. The major epidemics are over, but the…

Environmental Conservation

5000 Tons of Plastic Pollution: Key Study Insights Revealed

The Empa study focused on specific types of plastic: polyethylene (LD-PE and HD-PE), polypropylene, polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, PVC and PET used for…

Life & Chemistry

Enhancing Protein Production with Innovative Speed Controllers

Proteins perform various jobs in cells, they catalyze thousands of biochemical reactions, relay signals and are required for building cellular structures and…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Solar Power: Free Drinking Water Innovation Unveiled

Water and energy production is deeply intertwined, says Wenbin Wang, a Ph.D. student in Peng Wang's labs at the University's Water Desalination and Reuse…

Earth Sciences

New Sensor Enhances Earthquake Response in California

Last week's massive southern California earthquakes shut down Ridgecrest Regional Hospital throughout the July 4 holiday weekend while the tiny town of…

Life & Chemistry

Inducing Self-Repair in the Central Nervous System

Damaged peripheral nerves can regenerate after an injury, for example, following a forearm fracture. Axons, the long projections of neurons that transmit…

Physics & Astronomy

Dresden Physicists Enhance White OLEDs Using Nanostructures

Current OLED research focuses in particular on improving the performance of white OLEDs for lighting elements such as ceiling or car interior lighting. These…

Life & Chemistry

HIRI and JMU Study Virus-Host Interactions at Single-Cell Level

Cells are equipped with multiple defense mechanisms to fight off intruders. Genes encode the building blocks of the response that must be activated during an…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Global Farming Trends Impacting Food Security Insights

The researchers analysed data from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the cultivation of field crops between 1961 and 2016. Their…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Engineers at University of Magdeburg Advance Molecular Microscopy

Control Engineers of the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, in collaboration with colleagues from the Jülich Research Center, have developed a method for…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Printable Organic Light Emitting Diodes: A New Era of Innovation

Organic light-emitting diodes are components that no longer consist of compounds containing the semiconducting material gallium, but of so-called organic…

Physics & Astronomy

Laser-Driven Microbubbles: Insights into Vacuum Physics

The quest for a better understanding of vacuum physics will lead to the elucidation of fundamental questions in modern physics, which is integral in…

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