Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises
Credit: Ignacio Trujillo (IAC) with images from the HUDF 2012 programme. Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early Universe, and elliptical galaxies, in...
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Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its solution. For a team of...
AGU’s newest open access journal GeoHealth publishes first articles
Washington, DC-- The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Wiley today announced that GeoHealth, AGU's newest open access journal, has published its first set of articles....
Research survey evaluates attitudes toward microfluidics-based cell culture
Organ-on-chip and 3D cell culture technology have been highlighted as promising ways to ease the cost and inefficiency of the drug development process. A wide...
New approach for matching production and consumption of renewable electricity
Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the BALANCE project, which brings together leading European research institutes in the field of electrochemical...
Space energy technology restored to make power stations more efficient
Credit: © Elsevier Oxford, United Kingdom, March 6, 2017 - Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional...
Low-cost monitoring device uses light to quickly detect oil spills
Credit: Oscar Sampedro, Universidade de Vigo. WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a simple device that can detect an oil spill in water and then pinpoint...
Fluciclovine PET/CT improves radiotherapy targeting for recurrent prostate cancer
Credit: Ashesh B. Jani, MD, and David Schuster, MD, Emory University. Reston, Va. (March 6, 2017) - The featured clinical investigation article of the March...
Research into palliative care top priority for cancer patients
How and when people are referred to palliative care should be prioritised according to cancer patients, a new study in the Oncology Nursing Forum has...
The Darknet protects itself by being more robust against attacks
Credit: ©URV The Darknet is a part of the internet that people can access and use anonymously. This privacy and the ability to work away...
New deep learning techniques analyze athletes’ decision-making
Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but a new automated method based...
Easier diagnosis of esophageal cancer
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Zentrum München is heading the 'Hybrid...
Cebit 2017: Post-print customization of 3-D prints
„After printing, the 3-D object is static. You can no longer change it or adapt it to your needs," says Daniel Gröger, a doctoral student...
Biophysicists propose new approach for membrane protein crystallization
Credit: MIPT Press Office A team of scientists from the Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins at MIPT, Research Center Jülich (Germany), and Institut...
Revolutionary process to create ether from esters using metal catalysts
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, Mar 3, 2017 -- A group of Waseda University researchers has developed a new process using palladium or nickel as a...
