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Fear of contagion is driving much more contactless payments during the pandemic. It wouldn’t be necessary.
Unlike conventional light-controllable proteins, the newly characterized optogenetic tool can be switched off, not switched on, by light. It could be suitable for investigating the basic principles of epilepsy.
Popular unlocking patterns are often in the shape of a letter – and are easy to guess. A bad thing if someone loses their mobile phone and it ends up in the wrong hands.
In order to tailor plasmas for medical applications, it is necessary to know their effective components in detail. A team from the Collaborative Research Centre 1316 is providing new insights.
For data protection reasons, the messaging app Signal is becoming ever more important. Unlike WhatsApp, the Signal app asks you to create a PIN during setup. But why?
This is how a nanosecond plasma forms and spreads in water via tunnel effects.
Agarics can form fruiting bodies even without a partner. This establishes a question that has been unresolved for decades: Is there sexual reproduction in agarics without mating?
While in the past it was mainly car accident victims, today it is older people who come to hospital with head injuries after falls.
Infrared spectroscopy can automatically distinguish between various types of lung cancer and genetic mutations, allowing quick and reliable statements to be made regarding prognosis and treatment decisions.
Plasmas usually have a destructive effect on enzymes. But in this instance, they supply them with a building block for biocatalysis at the push of a button.
An international research team has investigated mechanisms behind sensory abnormalities following nerve injuries.
Logging into an online shop without a password, using only the fingerprint? In this situation, it’s not surprising that users have the impression that their biometric data is transmitted to the website.
Alternative splicing can lead to the formation of numerous protein variants. For the first time, alternative splicing has now been systematically analysed for the family of glutamate receptors.
A research team has discovered a security gap in modern mobile phones that is very unlikely to have been created by accident. In fact, it should have been removed back in 2013.
Studies on tissue from patients and mini-brains made from stem cells shed light on the disease.
Rather than destroying or removing defective veins, it is possible to repair them by using a sheath. They are thus saved for later use as a bypass.
Almost all attempts to use the Ras protein as a point of attack for medications have so far failed. New knowledge concerning its structure is raising hopes of options in the development of medications.
Services like Google collect a lot of data about their users. Anyone can see the information that is stored about them. But that doesn’t scare users away. On the contrary.
At worst, a restricted blood supply to the retina can lead to blindness. Bochum researchers have gained new insights into the underlying mechanism.
A special feature in PDF documents makes it possible for two contractual parties to sign them digitally one after the other. However, the second party can also change the content of the contract unnoticed.
