Unraveling the Secrets of Beer: New Study Debunks Age-Old Assumptions
Hop-derived ingredients not only enhance the shelf-life and add a bitter taste to beer, but they also play a crucial role in affecting its aroma….
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New Discovery Could Make Organic Solar Cells Significantly More Efficient
Organic dyes accelerate the transport of buffered solar energy. The sun provides vast amounts of energy to Earth, but solar cells always lose some of…
Saving Greenland’s Ice Sheet: Avoiding Catastrophe, Even Beyond Critical Tipping Points
Recent studies reveal that the Greenland ice sheet could recover from melting, even after surpassing critical global warming levels, with prompt and extensive climate action….
Ring Laser Precision: Unprecedented Daily Measurements Charting Earth’s Rotation
Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have achieved a significant advancement in measuring the Earth’s rotation with unprecedented precision. The ring laser at…
Twice As Powerful: Next-Gen AI Chip Mimics Human Brain for Power Savings
Hussam Amrouch has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. As reported in the journal Nature, the professor…
Scientists Identify Previously Unknown Sources of Methane Emissions
Following carbon dioxide, methane ranks as the second most prevalent greenhouse gas resulting from human activities. Its global warming potential over two decades exceeds that…
Eyes Don’t Lie: Unlocking Long COVID Secrets Through Blood Vessels in the Eye
A standardized eye examination might reveal in the future whether people are suffering from long Covid / post-Covid. A team of scientists was able to…
Unlocking the Secrets of the Heart – Scientists Create a Miniature Heart in a Petri Dish
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully induced stem cells to mimic the process of human heart development, resulting in a “mini-heart”…
Feeding the Future: Artificial Photosynthesis Transforms CO2 Into Food
Researchers produce important amino acid from greenhouse gas CO2 Growing demand for food in the world Biotechnological process via methanol as intermediate product Less ground…
Liver Regeneration: The Surprising Importance of Gut Bacteria
New research reveals that microbiota provide important building blocks for cell division The body has the ability to regenerate missing liver tissue when parts of…
Efficiently Harvesting Rare Earth Elements From Wastewater Using Exotic Bacteria
The novel strains of cyanobacteria exhibit a fast and efficient “biosorption” of rare earth elements, making recycling possible. Rare earth elements (REEs) are a set…
Unknown Hidden Chamber Discovered in the Great Egyptian Pyramid of Giza
Important Find in the Cheops Pyramid of Giza A previously unknown chamber in the Cheops pyramid of Giza has been discovered by an international research…
Scientists Discover Vast Diversity of Organic Compounds in Martian Meteorite
Tissint, a Martian meteorite that plummeted to Earth and crash-landed in Morocco over 11 years ago, is one of only five such meteorites that have…
Search for Dark Matter: Antihelium Nuclei As Messengers From the Depths of the Galaxy
New findings lay the foundation for the search for dark matter. How are galaxies born, and what holds them together? Astronomers assume that dark matter…
Why Do Plants Grow Towards Light?
An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central observation. Charles Darwin has had a greater influence on science than most. Though…
Intense Exercise Can Increase Your Risk of Catching Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19
The relationship between exercise intensity and infection risk The relationship between exercise intensity and the emission and concentration of aerosol particles in exhaled air has…
New Treatment Repairs Heart Damage After a Heart Attack With No Side Effects
Following a heart attack, cardiac progenitor cells produce healthy tissue A heart attack, also known as a myocardial infarction, occurs when a part of the…
Faster Than the Speed of Light: Overcoming the Physical Limitations of Today’s Telecommunications
With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and Aarhus University will try to solve the fundamental…