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Life & Chemistry

CRISPR/Cas: Enhancing Gene Repair with Precision and Efficiency

The molecular tool CRISPR/Cas allows introducing DNA double strand breaks into any gene of interest consequently resulting in stochastic mutations at the site…

Earth Sciences

Counting on NASA's ICESat-2

Launch is scheduled for Sept. 15, and as we count down the days, we're counting up 10 things you should know about ICESat-2:

Health & Medicine

Purdue Researchers Develop Novel Biomedical Imaging System

Purdue University researchers are developing a novel biomedical imaging system that combines optical and ultrasound technology to improve diagnosis of…

Life & Chemistry

New Enzyme Therapy Boosts Immune Response Against Cancer

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new approach to treating cancer using enzyme therapy.

Medical Engineering

Research brief: Researchers 3D print prototype for 'bionic eye'

The research is published today in Advanced Materials, a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering materials science. The author also holds the patent for…

Physics & Astronomy

Higgs particle's favorite 'daughter' comes home

In a finding that caps years of exploration into the tiny particle known as the Higgs boson, researchers have traced the fifth and most prominent way that the…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Resistance in Soybeans: Combating Aphid Pests

A tiny pest can cause huge losses to soybean farmers.

Life & Chemistry

Pond Water Study Uncovers Hidden Tropical Frog Species

Globally, there are almost 7,000 species of frogs, the majority of which occur in the tropics. In order to systematically survey their distribution and detect…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

How Forests Adapt to Summer Heat and Boost Photosynthesis

Trees depend on photosynthesis to produce sugar for their metabolism. To this end, they have to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) through small pores on their…

Materials Sciences

New Molecular Wires Empower Single-Molecule Electronics

Since their conception, researchers have tried to shrink electronic devices to unprecedented sizes, even to the point of fabricating them from a few molecules.

Materials Sciences

First-Ever Colored Thin Films from Carbon Nanotubes Created

Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics…

Materials Sciences

Invisible Needles: Breakthrough Metamaterial Innovation Unveiled

An international research group of scientists from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and NUST MISIS (Russia) has developed a model of a new metamaterial, which…

Physics & Astronomy

New Nanoactuator System Enhances Biomolecule Detection

Over the past decades, nanoactuators for detection or probing of different biomolecules have attracted vast interest for example in the fields of biomedical,…

Life & Chemistry

Leaf Molecules Reveal Insights Into Mycorrhizal Associations

The relationship between plants and so-called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi is considered to be one of the most important factors for the evolution of…

Physics & Astronomy

First European XFEL Results Show Breakthrough X-Ray Pulses

They demonstrate, for the first time that, under the conditions used at the time of the experiment, an increased number of X-ray pulses per second as produced…

Health & Medicine

EXP2 Protein Boosts Nutrient Uptake in Malaria Parasite

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions have deciphered the role of a key protein that the malaria parasite Plasmodium…

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