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AI Identifies Microscopic Marine Organisms Like Foraminifera

Specifically, the AI program has proven capable of identifying six species of foraminifera, or forams – organisms that have been prevalent in Earth's oceans…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Enhances Nanolaser Design by Physicists

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology developed a method that allows to find under what circumstances nanolasers qualify as true…

Physics & Astronomy

First look: Chang'e lunar landing site

Four weeks later (Jan. 30, 2019), as NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter approached the crater from the east, it rolled 70 degrees to the west to snap this…

Physics & Astronomy

New Singlet-Based Magnet Breaks Traditional Magnetic Limits

This “singlet-based” magnet differs from conventional magnets, in which small magnetic constituents align with one another to create a strong magnetic field.

Life & Chemistry

Discover an Elegant Mechanism in Biochemistry Innovation

The research labs of the associate professor Dr. Thomas Becker and Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner from the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cells’ Role in Metastasis: Insights for Cancer Therapy

A better understanding of the features that define the interplay between cancer cells and immune cells is key to identifying new cancer therapies. Yet, focus…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Graphene’s Safety: The Future of Innovation

Graphene, a single layer of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms, is regarded as the miracle material of the future: it is flexible, transparent, strong, can…

Earth Sciences

Deep Sea Study Links Earthquakes to Carbon Cycle Dynamics

An international team led by the Innsbruck geologists Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut, and Michael Strasser could quantify for the first…

Materials Sciences

Nano-Infused Ceramic: Self-Monitoring Health Sensors Explained

A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough in Brain Tumor Drug Development Unveiled

A breakthrough for brain tumor drug development and personalised medicine published today in Nature Scientific Reports.

Earth Sciences

Dark Fiber Innovates Long-Distance Earthquake Detection

In traditional seismology, researchers studying how the earth moves in the moments before, during, and after an earthquake rely on sensors that cost tens of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Experiment Confirms Star Formation Mechanism

The theory holds that MRI allows accretion disks, clouds of dust, gas, and plasma that swirl around growing stars and planets as well as black holes, to…

Health & Medicine

Combination Treatment: Diabetes Drug and Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer

Klefstrom and his research group found that, because of this vulnerability, cancer cells can be attacked with a “drug cocktail” that includes the diabetes drug…

Earth Sciences

Exploring How Vertebrate Skeletons Balance Flexibility and Strength

Vertebrates’ skeletons are unique in that they become mineralised as they develop, allowing them to become hard whilst remaining flexible. ‘The mineralised…

Earth Sciences

Petermann Glacier Shows Signs of Major Iceberg Calving

Cracks in the floating ice tongue of Petermann Glacier in the far northwest reaches of Greenland indicate the pending loss of another large iceberg.

Life & Chemistry

Dresden Researchers Discover Protein Enhancing Mobility

A total of four million children and adults in Germany are affected by one of more than 6,000 rare diseases. Many of these diseases are still rather…

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