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Silicon flexes its muscles

How nature is inspiring completely new material concepts for the technology of tomorrow. Smartphones, laptops, smart watches: The chemical element silicon is found in every electronic component and computer chip,…

Coral’s resilience to warming may depend on iron

Limited access to iron at high temperatures impairs growth and function of microalgae that live within coral cells. How well corals respond to climate change could depend in part on…

Noble metal clusters can enhance performance of catalysts and save resources

Lower-cost production thanks to optimized distribution of atoms – publication in Nature Catalysis. Billions of noble metal catalysts are used worldwide for the production of chemicals, energy generation, or cleaning…

Immune cells as guests in the tissue

Specialized immune cells settle permanently in tissues of the body and build “local task forces”. Wuerzburger scientists have recently discovered, how these cells can regenerate themselves and can adapt to…

Rapid rescue of buried people

Mobile radar device pinpoints signs of life When someone is buried by an avalanche, earthquake or other disaster, a rapid rescue can make the difference between life and death. The…

Stellar explosion in Earth’s proximity

Possible link to the Pleistocene epoch, the period of the Ice Ages? When the brightness of the star Betelgeuse dropped dramatically a few months ago, some observers suspected an impending…

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