Researchers at the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute have been engaged in describing how surfaces change in contact with reactive gas phases under different temperature and pressure conditions. For this purpose, ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 8, 2022
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Leiden researchers have found minute movements in the laccase enzyme. This discovery could lead to the development of much more efficient biofuel cells. Publication in Biophysical Journal.
Biochemistry
Jun 1, 2020
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There is a scholarly trend of playing ancient music as it was conceived by the composer. But where can rare historical instruments be found? One solution is fabricating exact copies of the originals. A team of Empa researchers ...
Other
Dec 20, 2019
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A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing "may have as profound an impact on ...
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2019
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In the Virtual Curation Laboratory, the lab's director, Bernard Means, Ph.D., is holding a realistic-looking 3-D printed replica of a human skull fragment that was dented by a bomb explosion during the Civil War.
Archaeology
Nov 1, 2018
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For more than a decade, biomimetic robots have been deployed alongside live animals to better understand the drivers of animal behavior, including social cues, fear, leadership, and even courtship. The encounters have always ...
Robotics
Feb 7, 2018
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The first 3-D printer in space has popped out its first creation.
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2014
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Not all things are created equally. We don't view a Picasso sculpture in the same way we look at a hammer, for example—no matter how fancy the hammer.
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2014
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Bacterial resistance to drugs leads pharmaceutical labs to be in constant search for new antibiotics to treat the same diseases. For the last thirty years, the sea bottom has yielded a wealth of substances with properties ...
Biochemistry
Jun 20, 2013
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