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Mobile Learning and AI: Transforming Science Training Worldwide

The trade fair will welcome visitors and exhibitors from over 80 countries, all with vastly differing experiences and thus underlining the international flair…

Materials Sciences

Lacquering before polishing – Technical Coatings for Additive Manufacturing

In a joint project, researchers from the Belgian NPO Sirris and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have investigated technical coatings…

Event News

Future of HPC in Engineering: Insights from Expert Panel

The centre of excellence is coordinated by the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS).

Life & Chemistry

New Photocatalytic System Uses Abundant Elements for Carbon Capture

As global warming presents one of the biggest challenges to humanity in the 21st century, the quest to curb mounting CO2 emissions is more pressing than ever.

Earth Sciences

Tracking Iron Changes in the North Pacific Ocean

“As a result of human activity, the amount and composition of Fe induced by atmospheric decomposition has changed and affected the ocean. After depositing into…

Physics & Astronomy

Light Triggers Gold: New Insights from Rice University Research

Rice University researchers have discovered a fundamentally different form of light-matter interaction in their experiments with gold nanoparticles.

Information Technology

A new way to see stress — using supercomputers

It's easy to take a lot for granted. Scientists do this when they study stress, the force per unit area on an object. Scientists handle stress mathematically…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s VISIONS-2 Rocket Team Launches in Ny-Ã…lesund

For a month's time, Ny-Ålesund will be home to the rocket team behind NASA's VISIONS-2 mission, short for Visualizing Ion Outflow via Neutral Atom Sensing-2.

Earth Sciences

Substantial Water Loss Discovered in Landlocked Regions

The study, “Recent Global Decline in Endorheic Basin Water Storage,” was carried out by a team of scientists from six countries and appears in the current…

Earth Sciences

Saltier waterways are creating dangerous 'chemical cocktails'

A recent study led by University of Maryland researchers found that streams and rivers across the United States have become saltier and more alkaline over the…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring The Power Of Vacuum In Quantum Mechanics

The vacuum is not empty. It may sound like magic to laypeople but it has occupied physicists since the birth of quantum mechanics.

Information Technology

Innovative Tablet Computers for the Visually Impaired

The engineer Prof. Dr. Bastian E. Rapp of the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg receives a European Research Council…

Machine Engineering

Laser Welding: Transforming Thick Metal Sheet Production

The processes for joining maritime steel components have a great development potential in terms of production costs and productivity: the frequently used…

Earth Sciences

Understanding Quirky Glacial Behavior at Jakobshavn Glacier

In August 2012, in the frigid wilderness of West Greenland, the Jakobshavn Glacier was flowing and breaking off into the sea at record speeds, three times…

Materials Sciences

'Sudoku' X-Ray uncovers movements within opaque materials

When strolling along the beach, our footprints tell us that the sand under the surface must have moved but not precisely where or how.

Life & Chemistry

Are Glasses a Hidden Health Risk? New Research Insights

In 2018 approximately 44.2 million Germans over the age of 14 wore glasses on a regular or occasional basis. Research has been done on the bacterial…

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