Between 1985 and 2009, 85,000 hectares, or five percent of the cultivated land available in 1985, was lost, mainly in the Swiss Central Plateau and valley…
Researchers trying to help people suffering from paralysis after a spinal cord injury or stroke mapped critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections that…
When people sweat, they unknowingly release a wide range of chemicals that can noninvasively inform clinicians on anything from stress hormone levels to…
Mantis shrimp vision is extraordinary, both in terms of their colour vision and their ability to see the polarisation of light.
Researchers at Duke University have built the first metal-free, dynamically tunable metamaterial for controlling electromagnetic waves. The approach could form…
Engineered nanomaterials hold great promise for medicine, electronics, water treatment and other fields. But when designed without critical information about…
Engineers at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated prototype devices made of an exotic material that can conduct a current density 50…
Now, physicists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new way to study these spectacular space plasma phenomena in a laboratory…
The team, led by CU Boulder Associate Professor Brian Hynek, braved second-degree burns, sulfuric acid fumes and the threat of eruptions to collect samples of…
Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam, Germany have confirmed the existence of a new cryptic amphipod species…
The FENS Forum is Europe’s largest neuroscience meeting. Development, cognition, diseases of the ageing brain, stem cells and genetics are just a few of the…
The metropolitan area of Istanbul with around 15 million inhabitants is considered to be particularly earthquake-prone. In order to be able to assess the risk…
Earth‘s magnetic field serves as a shield against hazardous radiation from space, especially the Sun’s charged particle flux. Since 1840, the year systematic…
The resolution of conventional optical microscopy is limited by the fundamental physical principle of diffraction to about one half of the wavelength of the…
They form the basis of the Arctic food web – and are extremely tough: even when the water becomes more acidic and the available light or temperatures change,…
Microscopic video recordings showed that these movements are controlled by ions, attached to the surface of the electrode. These findings could help to control…
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