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U-M discovery about biological clocks overturns long-held theory

Understanding how the human biological clock works is an essential step toward correcting sleep problems like insomnia and jet lag. New insights about the…

Scientists measure the rate of ascent of volcanic magma

Volcanoes that tend to show this kind of behaviour include Mount Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines and Mt. St. Helens in the USA. Professor…

Impaired foetal growth increases risk of asthma

Questionnaire data on asthma in 9 and 12 year old twins was linked to the national Swedish Medical Birth Registry which records, amongst other data, birth…

Experience is lost during reorganisation of health and medical care

“There is much mention of efficiency without further definition of the concept, but it influences and is influenced by the organisation's structure, leadership…

MetriKon 2009: Measurement for Software Professionals

This professional conference organized by the Deutschsprachige Anwendergruppe für Softwaremetrik und Aufwandschätzung e.V. (DASMA) will offer a comprehensive…

Too much of a good thing? Scientists explain cellular effects of vitamin A overdose and deficiency

If a little vitamin A is good, more must be better, right? Wrong! New research published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows that vitamin…

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Physics and Astronomy

Wavefunction matching for solving quantum many-body problems

International research team cracks a hard physics problem. Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo simulations are a…

Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star

Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The…

SwRI investigating unusual substorm in Earth’s magnetotail using MMS data

Research examines the nature of explosive events in the magnetosphere. Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth’s magnetotail, the elongated portion of the planet’s magnetosphere trailing…

Life Sciences and Chemistry

A second chance for new antibiotic agent

Significant attempts 20 years ago… The study focused on the protein peptide deformylase (PDF). Involved in protein maturation processes in cells, PDF is essential for the survival of bacteria. However,…

Searching for the microbial treasure

HIPS researchers discover new family of bacteria with high pharmaceutical potential. Most antibiotics used in human medicine originate from natural products derived from bacteria and other microbes. Novel microorganisms are…

Engineering a new color palette for single-molecule imaging

A new paper published in Nature Nanotechnology outlines a way to create dozens of new “colors” to multiplex single-molecule measurements. Researchers often study biomolecules such as proteins or amino acids…

Materials Sciences

Detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases

The material could be made as a thin coating to analyze air quality in industrial or home settings over time. Most systems used to detect toxic gases in industrial or…

New tech may lead to smaller, more powerful wireless devices

Good vibrations… What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can do already, except better? What sounds a bit like science fiction may actually not be so far off….

Columbia researchers “unzip” 2D materials with lasers

The new technique can modify the nanostructure of bulk and 2D crystals without a cleanroom or expensive etching equipment. In a new paper published on May 1 in the journal…

Information Technology

GARMI care robot becomes a universal assistant

From skill sets to an overall concept. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2024) in Yokohama, Japan, geriatronics researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) will present…

Animal brain inspired AI game changer for autonomous robots

First neuromorphic vision and control of a flying drone. A team of researchers at Delft University of Technology has developed a drone that flies autonomously using neuromorphic image processing and…

Smart Glasses as an everyday object

Humboldt Professor Dieter Schmalstieg does research at the University of Stuttgart. Dieter Schmalstieg, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Visual Computing at the University of Stuttgart, has been awarded the Humboldt…