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€10M ERC Grant for Innovative Brain Stimulation Project

“We aim to revolutionize non-invasive therapeutic brain stimulation.” That is the goal set by Professor Dr. Ulf Ziemann and his team at the Hertie Institute…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Cell Connectors Boost High-Performance Solar Modules

Heraeus and Ulbrich developed a process for the production of the efficient cell connector and presented the new product to the professional audience in…

Health & Medicine

Reducing Prophylactic Medication in Critically Ill Patients

By nature of the underlying medical condition, patients hospitalized in intensive care units are critically ill. As a physiological response to critical…

Earth Sciences

Solid Rock Acts Like Fluid: Unraveling Meteorite Crater Formation

Much has been written and discussed about the gigantic crater with a diameter of about 200 kilometers, the center of which lies near the Mexican port city of…

Health & Medicine

Researchers design 'smart' surfaces to repel everything but targeted beneficial exceptions

Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel everything, such as bacteria, viruses and living…

Information Technology

Breakthrough Fiber-Optic Tech Promises 100x Faster Internet

Broadband fiber-optics carry information on pulses of light, at the speed of light, through optical fibers. But the way the light is encoded at one end and…

Materials Sciences

Joining CFRP and Aluminum: Tackling Contact Corrosion Challenges

The combination of fibre composite materials and lightweight materials presents unique challenges to all established joining technologies. In addition to the…

Studies and Analyses

Air Pollution and Noise: Hidden Risks for Heart Health

Where air pollution is high, the level of transportation noise is usually also elevated. Not only air pollution negatively impacts on health, but also car,…

Life & Chemistry

New Caledonian Crows Craft Compound Tools from Short Parts

The new study, published today in Scientific Reports, shows that these birds can create long-reaching tools out of short combinable parts – an astonishing…

Trade Fair News

LaserForum2018 presented innovative 3D manufacturing through additive, subtractive & hybrid methods

Based on the recently awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for the “Optical Tweezers” (Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, Donna Strickland), Prof. Esen from the…

Life & Chemistry

Actin Cytoskeleton Remodeling Shields Tumor Cells From Immunity

The Laboratory of Experimental Cancer Research at LIH’s Department of Oncology conducts clinically oriented research aiming at understanding how cancer cells…

Physics & Astronomy

Quantum Soccer: Scoring Goals with Innovative Techniques

Let's suppose you were allowed to blindfold German soccer star Timo Werner and turn him on his own axis several times. Then you'd ask him to take a shot blind….

Medical Engineering

Nerve-On-A-Chip Enhances Neuroprosthetics Effectiveness

Stimulating nerves at the right place and the right time is essential for implementing effective treatments, but still a challenge due to implants' inability…

Life & Chemistry

'Mushrooms' and 'brushes' help cancer-fighting nanoparticles survive in the body

For a number of innovative and life-saving medical treatments, from organ replacements and skin grafts to cancer therapy and surgery, success often depends on…

Information Technology

Fiber-based quantum communication – Interference of photons using remote sources

Quantum networking is based on the transmission of single photons being used as “flying” quantum bits. The probability to detect a single photon upon fiber…

Event News

European Space Talks: Weltraumschrott – eine Gefahr für die Gesellschaft?

Die berühmten unendlichen Weiten sind alles andere leer. Schon im erdnahen Weltraum schwirrt es nur so von Technik, die unserer Gesellschaft das Leben…

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