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Social Sciences

Understanding Peer Feedback: Influencing Our Choices

We all react very sensitively to positive or negative signals in the behavior of our peers and unconsciously include this feedback in our own decision-making….

Medical Engineering

SwRI Advances Structural Health Monitoring with New Sensor

A new, more powerful generation of a patented Southwest Research Institute magnetostrictive sensor withstands extreme temperatures, automatically adjusts…

Materials Sciences

Crystals Clean Natural Gas: A Sustainable Upgrade for Saudi Arabia

Upgrading natural gas in this way could help Saudi Arabia to make greater and cleaner use of its abundant natural gas supplies, which can contain high levels…

Life & Chemistry

Biology and Nanotech Join Forces to Target mRNA Delivery

Delivering an effective therapeutic payload to specific target cells with few adverse effects is considered by many to be the holy grail of medical research. A…

Health & Medicine

Novel Quantum Dots Transform Cell Imaging Techniques

Over the last 50 years, FISH has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry because it effectively images and counts DNA and RNA in single cells. However,…

Earth Sciences

Seabed Changes Spark Concerns for Ocean Future

The ocean floor as we know it is dissolving rapidly as a result of human activity.

Environmental Conservation

Ocean Storms Impact Kelp Forest Ecosystems, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Santa Barbara experimentally mimicked the loss of undersea giant kelp forests at…

Medical Engineering

Innovations in Ultrasound Imaging Boost Breast Cancer Detection

Ultrasound is one of the three main technologies used in medical imaging. It is more compact and affordable than nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…

Physics & Astronomy

Rydberg Systems: A New Frontier in Quantum Communication

Since the early years of the century, scientists have been seeking ways to exploit the properties of Rydberg atoms for photon-based processing of quantum…

Health & Medicine

Future Predictions: Insights from Leading Research Institutes

In a joint opinion paper, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, the Aix-Marseille Université, New York University and the…

Physics & Astronomy

Basel Physicists Join Three Quantum Technologies Consortia

Quantum physics describes the behavior of matter at a microscopic level and forms the basis for the great technological revolutions of the last few decades….

Physics & Astronomy

JGU Joins EU Flagship Initiative for Quantum Technologies

The European Union has launched a Flagship on Quantum Technologies to promote research into and development of quantum technology throughout Europe. The EU…

Physics & Astronomy

Weyl Fermions: Unveiling New Insights in Particle Physics

All known elementary particles can be sorted into two categories: bosons and fermions. Bosons carry forces, like the magnetic force or gravity, while fermions…

Life & Chemistry

Breakthrough Cardiac Metabolic MRI Methods Enhance Diagnosis

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods have been used widely in past decades as a safe, non-invasive and non-radioactive method of diagnosing CVDs. However,…

Physics & Astronomy

New Room-Temperature Single-Photon Source from Atomic Gases

A photon is the smallest conceivable amount of light. Classical light sources such as light bulbs or the sun emit many photons simultaneously, in random order….

Trade Fair News

Anti-Stress App from TU Kaiserslautern Debuts at Medica 2018

Sleep disorders, exhaustion, back pain – all of these symptoms can be signs of stress. In the long term, this is harmful to health. Although there are many…

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