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- n a tributary of the Rhine
- n a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany
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- How Archaea might find their food
( Ruhr-University Bochum ) The microorganism Methanosarcina acetivorans lives off everything it can metabolize into methane. How it finds its sources of energy, is not yet clear. Scientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum together with colleagues from Dresden, Frankfurt, Muelheim and the USA have identified a protein that might act as a "food sensor." They characterized the molecule in detail and ...
June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert! - 'Long-awaited explanation' for mysterious effects in high-temperature superconductors
( Ruhr-University Bochum ) A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The calculations predict two coexisting electron orders. "It is not to be excluded that the new pseudogap theory also provides the long-awaited explanation for why, in contrast to conventional metallic superconductors ...
June 7, 2013 - EurekAlert!