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Physics & Astronomy

Disrupting Crystalline Order to Restore Superfluidity

We are all familiar with such control of the freezing transition, as it is an essential ingredient in the art of making a sorbet or a slushy. To make a cold…

Life & Chemistry

Brain’s Grid Cell System Maps Mental Spaces Efficiently

It has long been known that so-called place cells in the human hippocampus are responsible for coding one’s position in space. A related type of brain cell,…

Machine Engineering

BladeFactory Project: Faster Rotor Blade Production Insights

Using the technology presently available, it takes around 24 hours to produce a rotor blade blank. The process is protracted since almost all production steps…

Health & Medicine

Photoactive Bacteria Bait: A New Hope Against MRSA Infections

Purdue University researchers are testing whether a light-active version of heme, the molecule responsible for transporting oxygen in blood circulation, may…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Chillventa 2018: Advancements in Heat Pumps for Sustainability

“In addition to process optimization, the sustainable supply of heating and cooling in multi-family homes as well as in businesses and industry is important…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Novel Topological Insulators and Their Unique Properties

Topological insulators are materials with very special properties. They conduct electricity or light particles on their surface or edges only but not on the…

Information Technology

New Insights on Light-Matter Interaction Boost Electronic Devices

A paper published in Nature Communications by Sufei Shi, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, increases our understanding…

Process Engineering

New 3D-Printing Process Boosts Hard Tool Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing enables complex geometries, but has been limited in terms of hardness and component size so far. Researchers at the Fraunhofer IKTS in…

Information Technology

Unique Deep Learning Infrastructure – DFKI receives first NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer in Europe

Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel, head of the research area Smart Data & Knowledge Services at DFKI in Kaiserslautern and coordinator of the Deep Learning Competence…

Information Technology

Innovative Software for Researching Media Use and Digital Traces

The project with the exact title “The sustainable provision of software for cross-media practices and digital traces research” is headed by Professor Andreas…

Information Technology

Remote Control for Highly Automated Vehicles: The Future Unveiled

There will be near-future situations, in which highly automated and autonomous vehicles will also utilize a remote human operator. For example, a truck that…

Machine Engineering

“TwoCure”: the New Dimension in Resin-Based 3D Printing

Sometimes systems have an inherent flaw that causes manufacturing difficulties. In the case of resin-based 3D printing, most users would immediately point to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Micro Energy Harvesters: Powering the Future of IoT

Thin organic layers provide machines and equipment with new functions. They enable, for example, tiny energy recuperators. In future, these will be installed…

Materials Sciences

NIST Unveils Precise Method for 3D Polymer Processing

Resins and other materials that react under light to form polymers, or long chains of molecules, are attractive for 3D printing of parts ranging from…

Life & Chemistry

Nanoreactors: New Photocatalysts for Organic Synthesis

A RUDN chemist developed a new type of photocatalysts – nanostructures from titanium dioxide. Hollow nanocubes with ultra-thin walls act like nanoreactors and…

Physics & Astronomy

Bacterium Pays Off: Moorella Thermoacetica’s Gold Habit

A bacterium named Moorella thermoacetica won't work for free. But UC Berkeley researchers have figured out it has an appetite for gold. And in exchange for…

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