Electronic control to ensure photovoltaic systems always work at maximum power
Credit: Nuria González (UPV/EHU) After having developed various algorithms and control systems and having applied them in a whole range of fields, such as robotics,...
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Touch-sensitive, elastic fibers offer new interface for electronics
Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibers that can interface with electronic devices. "Touch is a...
MD Anderson, Oncora Medical team up to fight cancer with precision medicine alliance
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON and PHILADELPHIA ? Oncora Medical, a precision radiation oncology software company, and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...
Proton beam power boosted with pulsed lasers, promising better proton therapies
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Beams of charged particles such as protons are used to answer fundamental physics questions and have practical applications in...
Current Graphene Science tours its journey of high-performance energy storage devices
Energy serves to be indispensable need for powering electronic devices. Smartphones, laptops, automated logic controlled devices, automobiles and other aerospace devices are profoundly entangled in...
Platelets instead of quantum dots
Credit: Lauren Aleza Kaye / ETH Zurich Scientists have been researching luminous coloured quantum dots (QDs) since the 1980s. These nanocrystals are now part of...
Researchers develop a new way to study key biological processes
A team of scientists at The University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a novel way to obtain previously inaccessible insight into the functions of...
Renewable energy needed to drive uptake of electric vehicles
Plugging into renewable energy sources outweighs the cost and short driving ranges for consumers intending to buy electric vehicles, according to a new study. Queensland...
Novogene NGS Medical Lab Receives CAP Accreditation
April 4, 2017, San Diego and Beijing -- Novogene Corporation, a leading provider of genomic services and solutions with cutting edge next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics...
How stress controls hemoglobin levels in blood
Our ability to breathe oxygen is critical to our survival. This process is mediated by the hemoglobin in our blood, which carries oxygen. Since air...
Common antibiotic may help to prevent or treat PTSD
The common antibiotic doxycycline can disrupt the formation of negative associations in the brain, according to new research from UCL and the University of Zurich....
New rice fights off drought
Credit: RIKEN and CIAT Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have developed strains of rice that are resistant to drought in...
Paintings, sunspots and frost fairs: Rethinking the Little Ice Age
Analysis of extreme temperatures in the Central England Temperature (CET) thermometer record. Part (b) shows the lowest monthly average in each winter whereas part (c)...
UBC invention uses bacteria to purify water
Credit: Clare Kiernan/University of British Columbia A University of British Columbia-developed system that uses bacteria to turn non-potable water into drinking water will be tested...
Set strawberry alarm clock for post-apple bloom
Growers who time their strawberries to bloom just after apples do, can reap a better harvest, according to new research. When apple trees blossom, the...
