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Physics & Astronomy

Merging neutron stars — How cosmic events give insight into fundamental properties of matter

Quarks, the smallest building-blocks of matter, never appear alone in nature. They are always tightly bound inside the protons and neutrons. However, neutron…

Health & Medicine

New Mechanism Activates Immune System Against Bacteria

The microbiome in our intestine plays a vital role in people’s health and the immune system Any lack of balance there has not only been linked to chronic…

Life & Chemistry

How Sleep Boosts Your Immune System Effectively

Getting enough sleep is vital to supporting our immune system in fighting off pathogens – so much is common knowledge. But what we don't know is how exactly…

Physics & Astronomy

Carbon Molecules Transform Under Infrared Light Exposure

When carbon molecules C₆₀ are exposed to an intense infrared light, they change their ball-like structure to a more elongated version. This has now been…

Life & Chemistry

Unveiling Cell Forces: A Breakthrough in Scientific Imaging

The detection of physical forces is one of the most complex challenges facing science. Although Newton's apple has long solved the problem of gravity, imaging…

Health & Medicine

New Protein Biomarker Differentiates Bladder Cancer Effectively

Label-free digital pathology using infrared (IR) imaging with subsequent proteomic analysis for bladder cancer (BC) has revealed the first protein biomarker…

Life & Chemistry

Automated Lab Innovations Boost Clinical Stem Cell Therapies

At their final meeting at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Germany, the ten international project partners from four European…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Cyanobacteria: New Insights from 60 Years of Research

In their quest to find new model systems in cyanobacteria, Associate Professor Dr. Jörn Petersen and Junior Research Group leader Dr. Meina Neumann-Schaal of…

Studies and Analyses

Endangered Forest Bird Community in Argentina’s Dry Chaco

Only 7 percent of Argentina’s largest tropical dry forest presents woody cover levels above the threshold to host the forest bird community of the dry Chaco. A…

Trade Fair News

Safer Food Innovations: Reducing Waste in Packaging

The topic of product and food packaging is more relevant and more present than ever. Almost everyone already has the image of the immeasurably large plastic…

Materials Sciences

Turning a porous material's color on and off with acid

Chemists are working to develop porous materials made from organic molecules that have structures with well-defined openings that can separate and store…

Life & Chemistry

Selfish Chromosomes Expose Fungus Weakness in Wheat

Wheat is the world's second most extensively cultivated cereal crop, and in many countries an indispensable ingredient of essential staple foods. In Germany…

Event News

Global Legal Hackathon Kicks Off at HAW Hamburg

Along with over 50 other locations across 25 countries, spanning six continents the HAW Hamburg was chosen as a host location for the inaugural Global…

Health & Medicine

Vitamin D’s Role in Immune Cells and Bone Marrow Health

There are three types of blood cell: white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. All three types are created from hematopoietic stem cells located in…

Information Technology

Supercomputing Advances Jet Atomization in Industry

Whether it is designing the most effective method for fuel injection in engines, building machinery to water acres of farmland, or painting a car, humans rely…

Materials Sciences

Rice U. Lab Enhances Aluminum Plasmonics with Porous Envelope

When Rice University chemist and engineer Hossein Robatjazi set out to marry a molecular sieve called MOF to a plasmonic aluminum nanoparticle two years ago,…

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