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Medical Engineering

Laser Technology for Correcting Presbyopia: Insights from RayFEye

For the RayFEye project, the scientists of the LZH have developed both a mechanics and an optics model.

Awards Funding

Germany Funds €6.7M Microsystems Engineering Initiative

Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing more than 6.7 million euros to support the “Processes and Materials for…

Information Technology

The Human Factor in Artificial Intelligence Innovations

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. It’s a topic that is generating high hopes but also provoking some fears. Fraunhofer IAO therefore intends…

Process Engineering

Laser Beam Cutting: A New Era for Reactor Dismantling

This new system is supposed to enable the direct dismantling of nuclear facilities (reactor pressure vessels). Laser beam cutting offers significant advantages…

Physics & Astronomy

New Method to Reduce Quantum Noise by Argonne Researchers

Many current quantum information applications, such as carrying out an algorithm on a quantum computer, suffer from “decoherence” — a loss of information due…

Health & Medicine

Psoriasis Treatment Aids Heart Artery Disease Recovery

“Classically a heart attack is caused by one of five risk factors: diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, family history, or smoking,” said Nehal N. Mehta,…

Life & Chemistry

New Biocatalysts Discovered for Enhanced Phosphate Use

Enzymes such as phytases and phosphatases are required to be able to use organically bound phosphate. The research group led by Professor Rolf Daniel from the…

Studies and Analyses

Exploring the Impact of Psychological Placebos in Therapy

Psychotherapy and placebos are both psychological interventions that not only have comparable effects, but that are also based on very similar mechanisms. Both…

Life & Chemistry

New Hope for MPN Patients: Advances in Bone Marrow Disease

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) – a group of rare but malignant bone marrow disorders

Information Technology

Quantum Proton Transfer: Bridging Quantum and Classical Worlds

In addition, they made a first ever observation of the transition between the quantum and classical regimes in electrochemical proton transfer by controlling…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sodium-Ion Batteries: Boosting Performance Beyond Lithium

The findings were published in Scientific Reports in November of 2018 and was headed by Naoto Tanibata, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at the Department of…

Information Technology

Supercomputing Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials Research

Whether it is high-temperature superconductors and improved energy storage to bendable metals and fabrics capable of completely wicking liquids, materials…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Advances in Stretchable Semiconductors and Integrated Electronics

In a paper published Friday, Feb. 1, in Science Advances, they outlined advances in creating stretchable rubbery semiconductors, including rubbery integrated…

Life & Chemistry

Microbes and Insects: A New Source of Antibiotics Discovered

But we seem to have tapped out that supply. Resistance by disease-causing pathogens to existing antibiotics is increasing, endangering millions of lives and…

Health & Medicine

Dinosaur Metal Compound Shines Light on Cancer Cell Treatment

A new compound based on Iridium, a rare metal which landed in the Gulf of Mexico 66 M years ago, hooked onto albumin, a protein in blood, can attack the…

Information Technology

New Algorithm Reduces Electromagnetic Noise in Circuits

In order to design noiseless electromagnetic (EM) devices, it is necessary to clarify the mechanism behind EM noise and theoretical calculations and computer…

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