Inspired by origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, researchers at TU Delft are developing an alternative to 3-D printing that gives the final products many more functionalities than what is possible with 3-D printing. ...
Engineering
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown that copper-based superconductors, or cuprates – the first class of materials found to carry electricity with ...
Superconductivity
Dec 1, 2017
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High in the snowfields atop the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, things are not as pristine as they used to be. Dust from the desert Southwest is sailing into the Rockies in increasing quantities and settling onto the snow that ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2017
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Researchers of Wageningen University & Research, BU Greenhouse horticulture, developed weeding machines which are able to do intra-row weeding. Our experts in robotics were responsible for the detection of weed based on camera ...
Ecology
Dec 1, 2017
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After an earthquake, there is an instantaneous gravitational disturbance that could be recorded before the seismic waves that seismologists can detect. In a study published in Science on December 1, 2017, a team comprising ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 1, 2017
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Quantum secret communication realizes secure information transmission-based on quantum principles. At present, the most developed quantum secret communication schemes are-based on quantum key distribution. In these schemes, ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 1, 2017
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Key processes in the body are controlled by the concentration of calcium in and around cells. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed the first sensor molecule ...
Biochemistry
Dec 1, 2017
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A research team from Technical University Munich, University of Freiburg, and University of Stuttgart has reported on the design of mobile building components such as blinds based on naturally occurring solutions. The aim ...
Materials Science
Dec 1, 2017
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Cells continuously replicate to repair and replace damaged tissue, and each division requires duplicating DNA. As the DNA duplicates, errors inevitably occur, resulting in damage that, if left unrepaired, can lead to cellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 1, 2017
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DEDAVE is an innovative autonomous underwater vehicle developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Now the deep-diving robot has had its first chance to prove itself in action as it helped hunt down historic test ...
Engineering
Dec 1, 2017
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