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Tandem Solar Cells Achieve Record Efficiency on Silicon Base

The outstanding achievement is that the III-V layers were directly grown on the silicon.

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Brain Growth: Exploring the Cerebral Cortex Evolution

The human brain owes its characteristic wrinkled appearance to its outer layer, the cerebral cortex. During human evolution, the neocortex, the evolutionarily…

Health & Medicine

New Insights Into Adult Brain Neuron Generation Process

In the developing brain, the 3 main cell types, specifically neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, are generated from neural stem cells.

Materials Sciences

High-Entropy Alloys: Advancing Low-Temp Material Innovation

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…

Earth Sciences

Climate Change Impact on Benguela Upwelling Marine Ecosystems

The three-year research project EVAR* to investigate possible climate change impacts on key biogeochemical processes in the Benguela upwelling system off South…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhanced Power Converter Protection for Wind Turbines

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…

Life & Chemistry

What Fuels Memory? Unveiling Neurons and Protein Roles

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,…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Switches Enhance Disease Research in European Network

In the project “Logic Lab – Molecular logic lab-on-a-vesicle for intracellular diagnostics”, scientists from various disciplines are investigating how dye…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Food’s Influence: Insights from Max Planck Research

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…

Life & Chemistry

Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with 'nanowrappers'

This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)–a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven…

Health & Medicine

Faulty DNA Repair in Intestinal Stem Cells Linked to Cancer

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….

Life & Chemistry

Egg Quality Variation in Blue Tits: Age and Laying Order Insights

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…

Information Technology

Wearable Sensor Networks: Innovations from Xenoma and TUK

Tokyo, Japan / Kaiserslautern, Germany – Xenoma, wearHEALTH, a research group from Technische Universität Kaiserslautern (TUK), and the German Research Center…

Life & Chemistry

Catalytic Flying Carpet: Redefining Innovation in Travel

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…

Medical Engineering

Controlling neurons with light — but without wires or batteries

University of Arizona biomedical engineering professor Philipp Gutruf is first author on the paper Fully implantable, optoelectronic systems for battery-free,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Competing State of Matter Discovered in Superconductors

“Superconductivity is a strange state of matter, in which the pairing of electrons makes them move faster,” said Jigang Wang, Ames Laboratory physicist and…

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