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After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has finally succeeded in measuring how heat passes between two gold electrodes through a single molecule. They report their findings in Nature on July 17, 2019.

International team of researchers with participation of the University of Konstanz achieves breakthrough in the area of heat transport at molecular scales

The mission "Comet Interceptor" will visit a pristine comet that is just beginning its journey into the inner solar system. From the beginning, the Technische Universität Braunschweig with the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics has also been involved in the mission. The goal of the European Space Agency (ESA) is to better understand the development of dynamic objects.

Fraunhofer IPA drives Biological Transformation with an innovative platform

New measurements imply dramatically higher abundance of helium hydride ions in the early universe

Genetic differences between the two main strains of the blood cancer-triggering virus have been shown to change the way the virus behaves when it infects white blood cells

Rutgers-led team confirms an important role for viruses that infect algae in marine waters

Researchers have created a comprehensive test based on machine learning algorithms to better guide the management of patients with pancreatic cysts - a potential precursor of pancreatic cancer.

Products we commonly buy at the supermarket, such as tortillas and corn chips, are made from food grade corn. The corn is grown, harvested, bought by a food company, turned into masa (dough from ground corn) through a chemical process, and then made into our favorite products.

Allergy sufferers have received information about the current pollen load mainly from pollen traps near the ground. However, a research team from Finland and Germany is working on the detection of pollen above the ground and in the air using laser beams. In Melpitz near Leipzig, a measurement campaign by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) took place and is now continued in Leipzig.

Researchers at Berkeley Lab have developed a tiny toolkit for scientists to study exotic quantum physics

The community of viruses is staggeringly vast. Occupying every conceivable biological niche, from searing undersea vents to frigid tundra, these enigmatic invaders, hovering between inert matter and life, circumnavigate the globe in the hundreds of trillions. They are the most abundant life forms on earth.

Scientists have visualised the electronic structure in a microelectronic device for the first time, opening up opportunities for finely-tuned high performance electronic devices.

Scientists can predict where and when blue whales are most likely to be foraging for food in the California Current Ecosystem, providing new insight that could aid in the management of the endangered population in light of climate change and blue whale mortality due to ship strikes, a new study shows.

Promising system delivers chemo drug straight into tumors with fewer side effects

The aggressiveness of ants in arid environments with scarce food supply helps protect plants against herbivorous arthropods

The ice sheet covering West Antarctica is at risk of sliding off into the ocean. While further ice-sheet destabilisation in other parts of the continent may be limited by a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the slow, yet inexorable loss of West Antarctic ice is likely to continue even after climate warming is stabilised. A collapse might take hundreds of years but will raise sea levels worldwide by more than three meters.

Acute myeloid leukemia stem cells elude the body’s immune cells by deactivating a danger detector. The underlying mechanisms and the potential new therapeutic approaches that this gives rise to have been detailed in the journal Nature by researchers from the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel in collaboration with colleagues in Germany.

Long-term measurements document sea level rise in the Arctic

Two-qudit gate on a photonic platform achieves massive entangled quantum state

Renewable sources of energy such as wind or photovoltaic are intermittent. The production peaks do not necessarily follow the demand peaks. Storing green energy is therefore essential to moving away from fossil fuels. The energy produced by photovoltaic cells is stored during the day and by wind-power when the wind blows to be used later on when needed.

New research could help to reduce plastic waste in the future

A multinational team led by researchers from Osaka University use experimental Kelvin probe force spectroscopy to alter the charge states on single oxygen atoms and achieve reversible conversion of oxygen atoms to molecular oxygen