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Power and Electrical Engineering

Ultra-light gloves let users 'touch' virtual objects

Scientists at EPFL and ETH Zurich have just made a major step toward this goal with their new haptic glove, which is not only lightweight – under 8 grams per…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Decline Boosts Phytoplankton Blooms Northward

A new study based on satellite imagery of ocean color reveals phytoplankton spring blooms in the Arctic Ocean, which were previously nonexistent, are expanding…

Materials Sciences

High Entropy Alloys: Unlocking Dislocation Avalanche Insights

“Metals are made of polycrystals and the crystals have atoms arranged in an orderly way,” explained lead author Jian-Mu Zuo, Ivan Racheff Professor of…

Physics & Astronomy

New Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered by Astronomers

On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves…

Materials Sciences

First LIBS Measurement at 600 Bar Unlocks Deep Sea Insights

Locating mineral resources on the sea floor has so far been rather expensive. In order to reduce the costs, the LZH is working with eight other European…

Medical Engineering

LISA: New Statistical Inference Method Enhances fMRI Insights

One of the principal goals in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the detection of local neuronal activation in the human brain. However, lack of…

Physics & Astronomy

Unlocking Precision: New Optical Techniques in Physics

With modern optical imaging techniques, the position of objects can be measured with a precision that reaches a few nanometers. These techniques are used in…

Life & Chemistry

Gut Flora’s Impact on Multiple Sclerosis: New Insights Revealed

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s own immune system attacks and damages the protective coating around nerve cells.

Life & Chemistry

Storage & Transport of highly volatile Gases made safer & cheaper by the use of “Kinetic Trapping"

Storage of highly volatile gases has always been a major technological challenge, not least for use in the automotive sector, for, for example, methane or…

Materials Sciences

Graphene’s Potential to Meet Future Telecom Bandwidth Needs

Researchers within the Graphene Flagship project, one of the biggest research initiatives of the European Commission, showed that integrated graphene-based…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Goldilocks principle in biology — fine-tuning the 'just right' signal load

Trying to transfer to other types of plants.

Life & Chemistry

Microfluidic Exchanger Enhances Therapeutic Cell Manufacturing

Using microfluidic technology to advance the preparation of samples from the chemically complex bioreactor environment, the researchers have harnessed…

Materials Sciences

New Light Switch Method Enhances Nanoscale Control in Microscopes

The team published their results in July in Nano Letters, an American Chemical Society journal. Scientists from the University of Tokyo, Yokohama National…

Earth Sciences

Smaller Eruptions Impact Volcanic Activity in New Zealand

But why? A team of geoscientists went to New Zealand's North Island to dig into the answers and the white-gray rocks holding them. As explained in their…

Materials Sciences

Self-Healing Ion Gels: The Future of Strong Electronic Devices

Ion gels have attracted much attention due to their unique properties such as low tendency to evaporate at room temperature, high thermal stability and a high…

Life & Chemistry

High-Performance Self-Assembled Catalyst Boosts SOFC Efficiency

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Gunatae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Professor Jeeyoung Shin…

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