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Earth Sciences

Australian Researchers Unearth Oldest Fossils on Earth

Australian researchers have found the world’s oldest fossils in a remote area of Greenland, demonstrating that life emerged rapidly during the planet’s early…

Life & Chemistry

New Antibody Crystallization Advances Osteoporosis Treatment

Osteoporosis particularly affects elderly women: the bone’s structure weakens and the risk of suffering fractures rises. As prophylaxis patients are advised to…

Life & Chemistry

Targeting Dormant HIV: New Insights from Montreal Researchers

Why wake up the virus? To better kill it, of course. A team from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) has taken an important step…

Physics & Astronomy

Australian technology installed on world’s largest single-dish radio telescope

The telescope—known as FAST—uses a data system developed at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR) in Perth and the European Southern Observatory…

Life & Chemistry

Activating Repair in Nerve Fibers: New Breakthrough by Scientists

Injuries to the spinal cord can cause paralysis and other permanent disabilities because severed nerve fibers do not regrow. Now, scientists of the German…

Physics & Astronomy

Diamonds aren't forever: Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge

“People have already built small quantum computers,” says Sandia researcher Ryan Camacho. “Maybe the first useful one won’t be a single giant quantum computer…

Information Technology

Quantum Computers: Breakthrough Boosts Stability Tenfold

Australian engineers have created a new quantum bit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically…

Physics & Astronomy

Ames Lab Unveils Insights on Unconventional Superconductivity

Researchers combined innovative crystal growth, highly sensitive magnetic measurements, and the controlled introduction of disorder through electron…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Friendly Fire in Pancreas and Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body destroys its own beta cells in the pancreas.* Researchers are still seeking to find out what causes…

Information Technology

Stanford’s New Special-Purpose Computer Could Save Billions

Now, an entirely new type of computer that blends optical and electrical processing, reported Oct. 20 in the journal Science, could get around this impending…

Life & Chemistry

‘Farming’ bacteria to boost growth in the oceans

Chemosynthetic symbionts are bacteria living inside or on the surface of animals, supplying their host with food that would otherwise be unavailable. It has…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Gene Activation in Atherosclerosis Development

Though the mechanisms that activate macrophages, a type of digestive white blood cell that targets foreign cells, remain incompletely understood, previous…

Life & Chemistry

Cork Innovation: Enhancing Aquaculture for Clearer Waters

Overfishing of the world’s oceans is a global problem. Politics, economy, society – all of them are required to search for a solution for increasing worldwide…

Earth Sciences

New Instrument Aims to Detect Life Signs on Mars

Branimir Blagojevic, a NASA technologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, formerly worked for a company that developed the sensor. He…

Life & Chemistry

Faster Sepsis Pathogen Diagnosis: A New Medical Breakthrough

It is estimated that in Germany alone around 150,000 people fall ill with sepsis every year; despite medical advances, between 30 and 50 percent of the…

Machine Engineering

Laser-Additive Manufacturing: Key to Unlocking Industry 4.0

„Are we ready for implementing Industry 4.0?“, asked Dr. Volker Schmidt, CEO of NiedersachsenMetall and Chairman of the Industrial Board of the LZH, the…

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Discovering Earth’s Oldest Ice: A Quest in Antarctica

In Antarctica internationally leading ice and climate scientists of 14 institutions from ten European countries are looking for the oldest ice on Earth. Goal…

Physics & Astronomy

Single Crystal Growth in Hot Air: Simplifying Ceramic Synthesis

The synthesis of ceramic crystals often requires very complicated methods. Starting materials in form of powders have to be mixed, pressed and pre-reacted in…

Machine Engineering

MICO Generators: Enhance Toolmaking with Full Hardness & Speed

Experts often describe toolmaking as a link between development and production with a considerable impact on the industrial value added. This is why the…

Life & Chemistry

Understanding Polymorphs: Key to Controlling Molecular Structures

This study lies at the very heart of understanding and being able to control properties of molecular structures. Pharma and agrichem industries attach great…

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