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Physics & Astronomy

UH Scientists Explore Dark Matter Mysteries Through Innovation

University of Houston scientists are helping to develop a technology that could hold the key to unraveling one of the great mysteries of science: what…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists map the portal to the cell's nucleus

In research described March 14 in Nature, scientists at Rockefeller University and their colleagues have delineated the architecture of the nuclear pore…

Life & Chemistry

Compact Fiber Optic Sensor Enables Sensitive Analysis in Tight Spaces

Researchers have developed a new flexible sensor with high sensitivity that is designed to perform variety of chemical and biological analyses in very small…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Monocrystalline Silicon Thin Film Enables Faster Solar Cell Growth

A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Waseda University have successfully produced high-quality thin film monocrystalline silicon…

Life & Chemistry

Energy-Efficient Neurons: New Insights from Recent Research

Theory and reality don’t always match completely. One contradiction, about how a type of neurons generates signals, was now resolved by researchers at the…

Life & Chemistry

Sleeping Beauty Enhances Gene Transfer in Human Stem Cells

In gene therapy of certain congenital disorders, the therapeutic gene is transferred into the target cells using particular transport vehicles, also known as…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights: Photopigments in Animal Locomotion Control

Animal photoreceptors capture light with photopigments. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now discovered that these photopigments fulfill an…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights on Parasite Biology Could Aid Malaria Prevention

Malaria parasites multiply asexually in the human bloodstream, thereby causing chronic infection and all the complications associated with this devastating…

Life & Chemistry

Mice Adapt Their Appearance Through Human Interaction

Dogs, cows, sheep, horses, pigs, and birds – over the past 15,000 years, our ancestors domesticated dozens of wild animals to keep them as farm animals or…

Life & Chemistry

Sentinels of the Genome: DNA Repair Innovations Unveiled

Throughout life, DNA is constantly being damaged by environmental and intrinsic factors and must be promptly repaired to prevent mutations, genomic…

Materials Sciences

New Electronic Matter: Insights from Topological Insulators

The team's work with QTIs was born out of the decade-old understanding of the properties of a class of materials called topological insulators. “TIs are…

Physics & Astronomy

Graphene Flakes: A Breakthrough for Future Transistors

Tiny and very promising for possible applications in the field of nanoelectronics: they are the graphene nanoflakes studied by a SISSA's team and protagonists…

Materials Sciences

Boron Breakthrough: Pure Honeycomb Borophene Structure Revealed

An intriguing question is whether it is possible to prepare a borophene monolayer with a pure honeycomb lattice. Honeycomb borophene will naturally host Dirac…

Materials Sciences

Future Insights: Alternatives to Lithium and Cobalt in Batteries

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. Analysis by researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) of the Karlsruhe…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Breakthrough in Battery Tech for Renewable Energy Storage

However, the boom in wind energy faces a hurdle — how to effectively and cheaply store energy generated by turbines when the wind is blowing, but energy…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Thin Film Splicing by Dr. Kenneth Beyerlein

The recent work of Dr. Kenneth Beyerlein, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics (MPSD) in Hamburg, provides a new approach to…

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