The outstanding achievement is that the III-V layers were directly grown on the silicon.
The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily…
In the developing brain, the 3 main cell types, specifically neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, are generated from neural stem cells.
As a fire-new material, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit an extremely-broad philosophy on how to combine elements. The potent mixture strategy makes the…
The three-year research project EVAR* to investigate possible climate change impacts on key biogeochemical processes in the Benguela upwelling system off South…
Economic losses of around € 200 million per year arise in Germany alone due to repair costs and revenue losses resulting from failed power converters in wind…
In order to respond both swiftly and appropriately to impulses, brain cells (“neurons”) need to have proteins directly at hand, i.e. not only in the cell body,…
In the project “Logic Lab – Molecular logic lab-on-a-vesicle for intracellular diagnostics”, scientists from various disciplines are investigating how dye…
When it comes to our food intake, we are only partially in control. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne were able to show…
This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)–a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven…
Cancer is caused by the body's own cells, which change and start growing out of control. With bowel cancer, this affects the cells of the intestinal mucosa….
The quality of an egg resides in its size and its composition. In all egg-laying species, larger eggs produce larger, more viable and more performant…
Tokyo, Japan / Kaiserslautern, Germany – Xenoma, wearHEALTH, a research group from Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK), and the German Research Center…
The “magic carpet” featured in tales from “One Thousand and One Nights” to Disney's “Aladdin” captures the imagination not only because it can fly, but because…
University of Arizona biomedical engineering professor Philipp Gutruf is first author on the paper Fully implantable, optoelectronic systems for battery-free,…
“Superconductivity is a strange state of matter, in which the pairing of electrons makes them move faster,” said Jigang Wang, Ames Laboratory physicist and…