Few-cycle pulses break the 300 W barrier
Credit: MBI A team led by researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), Laser-Laboratorium Goettingen (LLG) and Active...
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Perovskite solar cells: Possible aspects of high efficiency uncovered
Credit: HZB Solar cells based on perovskites have reached enormously high efficiencies within a few years, only. Those containing hybrid halide perovskite, i.e. materials containing...
Urban development reduces flash flooding chances in arid West
Credit: Lauren McPhillips Urban development in the eastern United States results in an increase in flash flooding in nearby streams, but in the arid West,...
Long-term blood pressure variation and risk of dementia
Credit: rawpixel, Pixabay In a new research study published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine, Albert Hofman and colleagues at Erasmus MC University Medical...
Explosion in Tianjin Port enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the Bohai Sea
Credit: Zheng Zong Total production and the scale of industrial enterprises in China have expanded greatly since late 1970s. As such, the long-term accumulated environmental...
The effects of a mock shelter environment on sleep
Are evacuation shelters too cold in winter?Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. In the Building Environment Laboratory at Toyohashi University of...
Alzheimer’s Association receives 1.34M from NIH for psychosocial research in dementia care
Credit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, November 13, 2019 - The Alzheimer's Association® announced that it has received a $1.34 million dollar grant from the National Institutes...
Healthy mangroves help coral reef fisheries under climate stress
Credit: The University of Queensland Healthy mangroves can help fight the consequences of climate change on coral reef fisheries, according to a University of Queensland-led...
NIH grant to study unstructured data that can improve patient safety
Credit: Virginia Tech Reports that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States have led the Institute of Medicine and...
System by which plants have formed secondary buds since ancient times illuminated
Credit: Kobe University A collaborative research group has succeeded in identifying an important transcription factor, GCAM1, which allows liverwort plants to asexually reproduce through creating...
Novel mathematical framework provides a deeper understanding of how drugs interact
Credit: CeMM / Franzi Kreis Combining two or more drugs can be an effective treatment of diverse diseases, such as cancer. Yet, at the same...
Body language key to zoo animal welfare
Credit: Paul Rose Watching the behaviour and body language of zoo animals could be the key to understanding and improving their welfare, new research suggests....
Epitaxially-grown molybdenum oxide advances as a bulk-like 2D dielectric layer
Credit: JongHoon Kim Since the successful isolation of graphene from bulk graphite, remarkable properties of graphene have attracted many scientists to the brand-new research field...
Plants might be helping each other more than thought
Credit: Scientific illustration created by Dr I M Berenjeno (DhramaBeren Studio, www.dharmaberen.com) Contrary to the long-held belief that plants in the natural world are always...
A study warns about the ecological impact caused by sediment accumulation in river courses
Water ecosystems with high nitrate concentrationCredit: Rubén Ladrera (University of La Rioja, Spain) Insects, crustaceans and other water macroinvertebrates are more affected by the effect...
