Sleep in birds and mammals is very similar with two distinct sleep phases. During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep the eyes twitch, the muscles relax and the…
Modern functional materials such as superconductors or magnets are underlain by interacting electrons. A detailed description of electronic correlations is…
In the past decades mainly static attributes have been investigated using machine learning approaches, such as the distribution of soil properties from the…
The building blocks of matter surrounding us are atoms and molecules. The properties of that matter, however, are often not set by these building blocks…
Hard rock can only be drilled with low rates of penetration and the drill bit wears more quickly. The cost can be pro-hibitive, frequently preventing investors…
The heat storage material developed by Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF can be used to precondition the…
Producing traditional solar cells made of silicon is very energy intensive. On top of that, they are rigid and brittle. Organic semiconductor materials, on the…
Fire protection requirements are increasing worldwide – especially in public buildings and vehicle construction.
What makes us human, and where does this mysterious property of “humanness” come from? Humans are genetically similar to chimpanzees and bonobos, yet there…
Cell biologists from the University of Konstanz shed light on a recent evolutionary process in the human immune system and publish their findings in the…
A team of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic State University suggested a method to quickly identify single antibiotic-resistant bacteria cells that are the…
A team of British and American researchers, co-led by the University of Cambridge, has measured how much the McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica flexes in response…
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia. It is characterized by an increase of malignant myeloid progenitor cells at the expense…
A new innovative cross-university project in the field of computer science designed to further develop deep learning, the current engine of artificial…
As reported by the team led by the Tübingen virologist Prof. Michael Schindler, the glycoprotein of the Ebola virus causes cells to release small vesicles…