In many tropical countries, there are numerous millipede species still awaiting discovery and description. Millipedes from China are especially little-known….
An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom. The engine is the…
Myopia, also known as short-sightedness or near-sightedness, is the most common disorder affecting the eyesight and it is on the increase. The causes are both…
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made another important breakthrough in the…
Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are…
Using a newly developed method researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) have been able to shed light…
Chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in cooperation with researchers of the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)…
At the heart of the 3rd HTP-Forum “Technologies for value creation through use of raw materials and as an energy source”, the entire range of hydrothermal…
Controlling the magnetic properties of materials is fundamental for developing memory, computing and communication devices at the nanoscale. As data storage…
Sunlight reflected by solar cells is lost as unused energy. The wings of the butterfly Pachliopta aristolochiae are drilled by nanostructures (nanoholes) that…
Electrochemistry has undergone a renaissance in recent years and numerous research groups are currently working on the environmentally friendly production or…
Movement and orientation in space is an everyday experience. But it is also a fundamental theoretical problem for science. How does a moving observer perceive…
Until now, scientists have failed to establish a link between the properties of pancreatic cancer, such as its aggressiveness, and changes, i.e. mutations, in…
In the emerging field of magnon spintronics, researchers investigate the possibility to transport and process information by means of so-called magnon spin…
Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in monitoring the growth of minute gallium arsenide wires. Their findings do not only…
Writing in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03529-w) ecologists from TU Dresden in cooperation with the Leuphana University…
Cooling devices are considered to be power guzzlers, in which polluting refrigerants are still used, even after the ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). An…
The process that the body sets in motion in the event of inflammation is complex, but also impressive. The main role here is played by immune cells migrating…
Whether barley, wheat, maize or rice: The grass family includes all the major cereals. They are vital for feeding the world’s population. Farmers produce 80…
What happens in a cell when genetic information is translated into proteins? In order to study this process, researchers take a closer look on one particular…
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