Making (sound) waves in the fight against cancer
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Each year, thousands of Canadian men with prostate cancer undergo biopsies to help their doctors better understand the progression and nature of...
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Greater readiness repels cyber threats to manufacturers
Together with the National Emergency Supply Agency and the private sector, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed tailored solutions bringing improved cyber security...
A hardware-based modeling approach for real world collaborative multi-robot tasks
Technological revolution means robots no longer are the song of the future. The Governor of the Bank of England predicts today that up to half...
Electronic ‘hairy skin’ could give robots a more human sense of touch (video)
Electronic-skin prototypes are stretchy, thin films that can sense temperature, pressure and even monitor blood oxygen or alcohol levels. But most of these devices are...
New approach to liver transplantation: Using a damaged liver to replace a dying liver
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center There's new hope for patients with liver disease who are waiting for a donor liver to become available for transplantation. Doctors...
Gene transfer on the fungal highway
Credit: Berthold et al. 2016 in Scientific Reports For bacteria, soil is difficult terrain, with dry areas and air spaces presenting insurmountable obstacles. In order...
Efforts needed to stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Acinetobacter baumannii is the cause of difficult-to-treat infections in healthcare settings in Europe due to its increasing...
Promotion of nickel (Ni) allergy by anamnestic sensitization
This report provides evidence that the solitary pre-sensitization to LPS is essential for the onset of Ni allergy by shifting the Th1/Th2 immune balance toward...
Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe
The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports. The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA's Antarctic collection...
Mysteries of Father Christmas ‘solved’ by relativity theory
The mystery of how Father Christmas can deliver presents to 700 million children in one night, fit down the chimney and arrive without being seen...
DFG announces winners of 2017 Leibniz prizes
The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize have been announced. In Bonn today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German...
Heating apartment houses sustainably
Credit: Picture: Fraunhofer ISE For the energy transition to be successful, it will also be important to secure heat supply of the housing stock by...
Against the tide: A fish adapting quickly to lethal levels of pollution
Credit: M. F. Oleksiak, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered...
Newly revealed amino acid function could be used to boost antioxidant levels
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to discover that 2-aminobutyric acid (2-AB) is closely involved in the...
Corn yield modeling towards sustainable agriculture
Credit: Image granted by Laila Puntel. With an innovative modeling approach, researchers set out to examine corn and soybean yields and optimal nitrogen (N) fertilizer...
