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Mathematician Irmgard Flügge-Lotz died 50 years ago in May. She was one of the first female researchers in aeronautical engineering and worked at a predecessor organisation of today’s German...
During infection insect-killing bacteria typically release toxins to slay their hosts. The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens, for example, pumps insect larvae full of the lethal ‘Makes caterpillars...
Batteries can store up to 80 percent more energy if they use Batene’s technology. The start-up, which was founded out of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, replaces the thin contact...
RAINER WEISS (NAS) is a Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Previously Dr. Weiss served as an assistant physics professor at Tufts University and has been an adjunct...
Like an unhappy landlord, coral kicks out its tenants—symbiotic algae that live in its mineral skeleton—when the weather gets too hot. That’s because as temperatures rise, the food-providing algae...