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Physics & Astronomy

New Lens Manufacturing Technique Advances Optical Innovation

Led by Lei Li, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and graduate student, Mojtaba Falahati, the researchers developed a…

Life & Chemistry

How Dead Cells Disrupt Immune Responses to Wounds

Dead cells disrupt immune responses and undermine defence against infection, new research has found.

Life & Chemistry

Tropical Corals Reveal Impact of Ocean Acidification

Through use of fossil fuels and deforestation, humans cause a steady increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Oceans are regarded as CO2 reservoirs,…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Chaperones: Guarding the p53 Tumor Suppressor

A cancer therapy without side-effects, that specifically attacks only tumor cells: still a dream for doctors and patients alike. But nature has long since…

Physics & Astronomy

How Moon Formation Brought Water to Earth, Say Planetologists

The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large moon, which stabilizes the…

Earth Sciences

New Device Measures CO2 Variants for Geothermal Insights

For the first time it is possible to measure, simultaneously and with extreme precision, four rare molecular variants of carbon dioxide (CO2) using a novel…

Life & Chemistry

New Bioinformatics Platform Enhances Genome-Based Taxonomy

“TYGS is an automated high-throughput platform for state-of-the-art genome-based taxonomy”, is the title of the paper published in the current issue of the…

Life & Chemistry

3D Technology Reveals Secrets of Ancient Fossil Carp Teeth

Researchers from the University of Tübingen and their colleagues from Switzerland have studied hundreds of fossil carp teeth for the first time using 3D…

Health & Medicine

New Technique Targets Cancer Cells More Effectively

A University of California, Riverside, research team has come up with a new approach to targeting cancer cells that circumvents a challenge faced by currently…

Life & Chemistry

How Pathogens Utilize Sophisticated Machinery to Infect Hosts

Gastric cancer, Q fever, Legionnaires' disease, whooping cough–though the infectious bacteria that cause these dangerous diseases are each different, they all…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Machine Learning Enhances Fusion Energy Experiment Modeling

The sun and most stars are giant balls of plasma that undergo constant fusion reactions. Here on Earth, scientists must heat and control the plasma to cause…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Flying-Driving Robot Unveiled at Ben-Gurion University

The first experimental robot drone that flies like a typical quadcopter, drives on tough terrain and squeezes into tight spaces using the same motors, has been…

Materials Sciences

Cement’s Climate Impact: Carbon-Neutral Alternatives from Residues

The basic raw material for cement is limestone, which is converted to cement clinker in large furnaces. The environmental impact of this process is disastrous:…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Bee Superorganisms: Survival in Cold Weather

A beehive is a complex ecosystem – not every bee can be considered separately, but the accumulation of all bees can be seen as a unique and huge superorganism…

Architecture & Construction

Wooden 5G Masts: A Sustainable Solution for Urban Landscapes

5G transmission masts have to be distributed throughout the entire area in order to ensure reliable data transmission. In order not to adversely affect the…

Physics & Astronomy

ALMA Discovers Aluminum in Young Star’s Gas Disk

Young stars are surrounded by disks of gas. Some of the gas condenses into dust grains which then stick together to form larger objects, building up to form…

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