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Psychologists analyse the development of prejudices within children Girls are not as good at playing football as boys, and they do not have a clue about cars. Instead they know better how to dance and do not get into mischief as often as boys. Prejudices like these are cultivated from early ...
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HIV uses macrophages of the immune system as a hideout, where viral particles can persist without being attacked by antibodies. From these reservoirs, viruses can be directly transferred to non-infected cells. These are the results of a study carried out by scientists from Hamburg and München ...
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Fire protection doors constructed using Palusol SW successfully tested according to British Standard Palusol® SW fire resisting boards from BASF have achieved excellent sound attenuation levels inacoustic tests in accordance with the British Standard BS EN ISO 10140-2 at Chiltern International. ...
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Free-electron lasers open new routes for structural biology An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. This new method will open ...
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DESY light source reveals structure of mesoporous hematite Researchers from Germany and the United States have identified a promising new material for use in lithium ion batteries. The scientists from Gießen University, DESY, HRL Laboratories, and the University of California at Los Angeles have ...
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Modern helicopters could be significantly faster and more manoeuvrable - if aerodynamics did not impose limitations on them. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) in Göttingen have now discovered and flight-tested a way to increase ...
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A new perspective on the nanoworld: free-electron laser elicits extremely short and brilliant X-ray pulses from neon gas In future, scientists should be able to observe more closely how plants generate sugar from the energy in sunlight or how electricity is generated from solar cells. ...
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Researchers shed light on the mystery surrounding energy-rich molecules in interstellar clouds Surprisingly, hydrogen cyanide and its far more energetic isomer, hydrogen isocyanide, are present in almost equal amounts in cold interstellar gas clouds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for ...
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The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has once again been successful in winning support from the European Research Council (ERC) January 30, 2012 With seven Advanced Grants, the MPG is Germany’s top recipient of EU funding. In response to its fourth call for applications, the ERC conferred a total of 294 ...
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Glioblastomas are regarded as particularly aggressive brain tumors. In children with glioblastoma, Heidelberg scientists have now discovered genetic alterations that affect the function of DNA packaging proteins known as histones. In a cell, histones serve as coils around which the DNA wraps. At ...
