Interdisciplinary Research

Interdisciplinary Research

Injectable Device Simplifies Fish Tracking for Researchers

Fish no longer need to go under the knife to help researchers understand exactly how they swim through hydroelectric dams, thanks to a new injectable tracking…

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Picture this — biosecurity seen from the inside

The research, “A fluorescent hormone biosensor reveals the dynamics of jasmonate signalling in plants”, was carried out by an interdisciplinary team from the…

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Myelin’s Role in Visual Recovery After Tumor Removal

An interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from the University of Rochester has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain…

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Counting Stars 2.0: Impact of Skyglow on Health and Society

Scientists from the interdisciplinary project “Loss of the Night” study how it affects health, society, and the environment. In order to measure how skyglow is…

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Stuttgart’s Reality Lab: Innovating Knowledge Transfer Methods

Starting in January 2015, several University of Stuttgart research institutes will be investigating new forms of knowledge transfer in the applied research…

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Robot researcher combines nature to nurture ‘superhuman’ navigation

Dr Michael Milford from QUT's Science and Engineering Faculty says the new study uses new computer algorithms to enable robots to navigate intelligently,…

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Unlocking Tissue Growth: How Cells Communicate During Healing

When the body forms new tissues during the healing process, cells must be able to communicate with each other. For years, scientists believed this…

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Lego-like modular components make building 3-D 'labs-on-a-chip' a snap

Thanks to new LEGO®-like components developed by researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, it is now possible to build a 3-D microfluidic system…

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Nature’s designs inspire research into new light-based technologies

“Nature has developed, very cleverly, some lessons on how to create the features that we desire in optical design,” said Joseph Shaw, director of the Optical…

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Enhancing Urban Design by Addressing Emotional Well-Being

Unsafe bike paths, traffic jam stress, frightening underpasses – modern city dwellers face a number of stressors. According to experts, sustainable urban…

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'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from the Internet

To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave.

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“Wetting” a Battery’s Appetite for Renewable Energy Storage

Sun, wind and other renewable energy sources could make up a larger portion of the electricity America consumes if better batteries could be built to store the…

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Singapore Scientists Identify Genetic Cause of Breast Tumours

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, and Singapore General Hospital…

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Tunable Nanoantennas: New Advances in Light Manipulation

“Recently, there has been a lot of interest in fabricating metal-based nanotextured surfaces that are pre-programmed to alter the properties of light in a…

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Climate engineering can't erase climate change

After evaluating a range of possible climate-altering approaches to dissipating greenhouse gases and reducing warming, the interdisciplinary team concluded…

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Bionic Arm Catches Objects in Midair with Precision

With its palm open, the robot is completely motionless. A split second later, it suddenly unwinds and catches all sorts of flying objects thrown in its…

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