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Medical Engineering

Ultrashort Light Flashes Enhance Cancer Detection at Leibniz IPHT

From Moscow via Birmingham to Jena: For Dr. Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz IPHT as the new stage of her scientific career means more than a geographical change….

Physics & Astronomy

Semiconductors Unite: New Method Unlocks Quantum Materials

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a simple method that could turn…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Phytoplankton in 3D with Smart AUV Technology

Phytoplankton form the base of the marine food chain but are notoriously difficult for scientists to account for — a little like trying to identify and count…

Process Engineering

Advanced Metal Design: Enhancing Sculpting Techniques

Most people may not realize it but they encounter products made with exotic or advanced metals every day.

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory catches lunar freeze frame

SDO sees lunar transits regularly, when the Moon passes in front of its view of the Sun. The Moon's unusual apparent behavior during this particular transit is…

Information Technology

Researchers Simulate Adhesive Wear: Impact of Surface Roughness

One of the parameters that influence the wear mechanism is surface roughness. A better understanding of how surface roughness changes during the wear process…

Information Technology

Thermo-Sensor Detects Magnetic States Using Heat

Scientists of the Department of Physics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, detected the magnetic states of atoms on a surface using only heat. The…

Life & Chemistry

How Pheromones Influence Social Status in Male Mice

Male house mice produce several pheromones, which are volatile and non-volatile chemical signals that have potent effects on the reproductive physiology and…

Physics & Astronomy

The moiré patterns of three layers change the electronic properties of graphene

Last year, researchers in the US caused a big stir when they showed that rotating two stacked graphene layers by a “magical” angle of 1.1 degrees turns…

Trade Fair News

Fraunhofer ISE Showcases Sector Coupling at ISH 2019

Sector coupling is the keyword for the second phase of the energy transformation which Germany is presently entering. At the turn of the year, the share of…

Awards Funding

9.1 Million Euros Boosts Trinational Quantum Research Project

The project “Quantum Science and Technologies at the European Campus” (QUSTEC) has been selected by the European Commission as a joint international and…

Physics & Astronomy

Combs of Light: Unlocking Molecular Spectroscopy Innovations

Atoms and molecules are the building blocks of matter. Spectroscopy can detect and identify a wide range of different compounds by their characteristic…

Life & Chemistry

Viruses Outsmart Host Cells: The Science Behind Their Strategy

Viruses depend on host cells for replication, but how does a virus induce its host to transcribe its own genetic information alongside that of the virus, thus…

Life & Chemistry

Engineered Microbe Transforms Plants Into Sustainable Plastics

Researchers, like those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison-based, Department of Energy-funded Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, hoping to turn woody…

Life & Chemistry

Multiple sclerosis: an attack on the brain’s control and storage center

Multiple sclerosis was long considered to be a white matter disease. However, many multiple sclerosis symptoms cannot be explained by white matter damage…

Architecture & Construction

Uncovering Hidden Secrets of Historic Cathedrals

The cathedrals of Cologne, Pisa, Ghent, Vitoria-Gasteiz und Vienna are up to one thousand years old, and they are all victims of the ravages of time. Even the…

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