Interdisciplinary Research

Interdisciplinary Research

Living Power Cables: Bacteria That Transmit Electricity

A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths…

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Food vs. Fuel: Exploring Surplus Land for Bioenergy Use

They identified environmental, economic and social constraints but also options for efficient use of surplus land for bioenergy. The study provides a…

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Cold cases heat up through Lawrence Livermore approach to identifying remains

Using “bomb pulse” radiocarbon analysis developed at Lawrence Livermore, combined with recently developed anthropological analysis and forensic DNA techniques,…

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Effective Planning for Nature Improvement Areas Explained

Drawing on research being carried out under the umbrella of the Living With Environmental Change programme, Relu has defined some important principles about…

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Geographic Software Enhances CSI: Mapping Features in Bones

In a recent issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, researchers describe how they used commercially available mapping software to identify…

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Vanderbilt’s Innovative Spinach Power Boost: New Patent Filed

The research was reported online on Sep. 4 in the journal Advanced Materials and Vanderbilt has applied for a patent on the combination. “This combination…

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Measuring Atomic-Level Photonic Interactions in Plasmonics

This field is known as plasmonics because scientists are trying to take advantage of plasmons, electrons that have been “excited” by light in a phenomenon that…

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UC San Diego Team Aims to Broaden Researcher Access to Protein Simulation

These results have the potential to bring millisecond scale sampling, now available only on a multi-million dollar supercomputer, to all researchers, and could…

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Nanobiomedicine: Funding Research to Detect Hidden Cancer Cells

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides over €300,000 for the next three years to fund a new research project at the Mainz University…

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Food-Trade Network Vulnerable to Rapid Contaminant Spread

Together with food science experts József Baranyi, from the Institute of Food Research in the U.K., and Zoltán Lakner, of Corvinus University in Budapest,…

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Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Corn Completed by Scientists

An interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), today…

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High Heels Insights: Enhancing Prosthetics and Robotics

Walking involves a repeated process referred to by scientists as 'crash, vault, push' – landing ('crashing') on the heel, vaulting over the stationary leg and…

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3D Models Enhance Implant Fit Through Advanced Mathematics

This is one of the findings of a translational research project conducted by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. The project demonstrated how 3D models and special…

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Cooperative Research: Fuel Innovations for a Sustainable Future

International research in fuel is becoming increasingly diverse. It's not just about setting the chemical energy in liquid fuel into motion. There are also the…

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In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life

A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.Devised by engineers at…

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New Nano-Materials Boost Infrared Technology Advances

A significant advance is reported in a recent article in the journal Applied Physics Letters. It details discovery of how infrared photodetection can be done…

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