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Opioid Crisis: Understanding Risks and Effects

More than two-thirds of the over 70,000 drug-related deaths in the USA in 2017 were due to opioid overdoses. The rapidly increasing abuse of the strong…

Life & Chemistry

Aim for Less Cleanliness: Harnessing Nature to Fight Diseases

Ecosystems like high-biodiversity grasslands and forests are more resistant to disturbances, such as invasive species, climate fluctuations and pathogens, than…

Materials Sciences

New X-Ray Tool Enhances Semiconductor Material Insights

Rigaku Europe SE and Fraunhofer IISB in Erlangen are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to revolutionize the characterization of…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Additive Manufacturing Through Metallurgical Principles

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is often used to produce engineering components. By utilising lattice structures (such as that shown…

Health & Medicine

The cytoskeleton of neurons has been found to be involved in Alzheimer's disease

José Martínez-Hernández, an Ikerbasque researcher in the Neuronal Ubiquitin Pathways group in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the…

Life & Chemistry

Molecules Teeter in Laser Field: First ATAS Experiment Unveiled

The reported work represents the first attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) experiment on a polyatomic molecule. In an ATAS experiment, the…

Medical Engineering

Reinforcement learning expedites 'tuning' of robotic prosthetics

When a patient receives a robotic prosthetic knee, the device needs to be tuned to accommodate that specific patient. The new tuning system tweaks 12 different…

Physics & Astronomy

New Insights on Gamma-Ray Bursts from Nearby Supernova Observations

Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the cosmos. These explosions last several seconds and emit the same amount of light as nearly all the…

Life & Chemistry

Enhanced Bone Growth Discovery May Transform Osteoporosis Treatments

UCLA and UC San Francisco life scientists have discovered a dramatic pattern of bone growth in female mice — research that could potentially lead to stronger…

Earth Sciences

Neumayer Station III: Celebrating 10 Years of Antarctic Research

The Antarctic is a frigid continent south of the Antarctic Circle, where researchers are the only inhabitants. Despite the hostile conditions, here the Alfred…

Life & Chemistry

Hand-Knitted Molecules: A New Approach to Electronics Fabrication

The fabrication of electronic components usually follows a top-down pathway in specialized physical laboratories. Using special carving tools in clean rooms,…

Physics & Astronomy

Einstein’s 1915 Discovery: New Insights on Magnetization

In 1915, Albert Einstein and Wander de Haas reported that changing the magnetization of a suspended iron rod by applying an external magnetic field leads to…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Quantum Physics in Paint-On Semiconductors

Comparing the quantum properties of these emerging so-called hybrid semiconductors with those of their established predecessors is about like comparing the…

Physics & Astronomy

Ultra Ultrasound: New Sensor Detects Living Cell Vibrations

The new sensor – capable of detecting vibrations of living cells – may revolutionise everything from medical devices to unmanned vehicles.

Information Technology

Drones Enhance Traffic Crash Site Assessments for Safety

It is one of the most vulnerable times for “secondary accidents,” which often can be worse than an original source of the slowdown, according to the U.S….

Life & Chemistry

Ebola Virus Breakthrough: Key Protein Interaction Discovered

A team of researchers have discovered the interaction between an Ebola virus protein and a protein in human cells that may be an important key to unlocking the…

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