A decent wheat harvest requires robust wheat. However, wheat crops are often infected by fungal diseases such as powdery mildew. For several years now, UZH…
A technical revolution came when the US engineer Jack Kilby developed the integrated circuit in the 1960s. Initially assembled in a pocket calculator, this…
Up and down, up and down. The points of light alternate back and forth in lockstep. They are produced by glowing molecules affixed to the ends of tiny robot…
Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed.
How metastasis occurs has been one of the central mysteries of cancer biology. The findings, published Jan. 17 in Nature, appear to have partly solved this…
Dust is everywhere–not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. To astronomers, dust can be a nuisance by blocking the light of distant…
Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind technique for creating entirely new classes of optical materials and devices that could…
Plant breeders have long known that crossbreeding of different inbred lines has a positive effect on the yield. However, the causes of this so-called…
We carry smartphones in our pockets, the streets are dotted with semi-autonomous cars, but in the research laboratory experiments are still being designed by…
Plants react sensitively to changes in their surroundings and possess the ability to adapt to them. They use the photoreceptor protein phytochrome B to see…
Plastic bags from polyethylene, packaging from polystyrene, frying pans with Teflon coatings: everyday life is awash with polymers. Chemically, polymers are…
T cells play a key role in the body's immune response against pathogens. As a new class of therapeutic approaches, T cells are being harnessed to fight cancer,…
In an attempt to better understand the urban environment and its components, scientists have discovered that sunlight causes chemical reactions in the dust…
One of the key principles in asset pricing — how we value everything from stocks and bonds to real estate — is that investments with high risk should, on…
According to Illinois Bioengineering Professor Rashid Bashir, existing gene expression methods have limitations. “They are cumbersome and slow, taking hours or…
In the Earth’s early history, several billion years ago, only traces of oxygen existed in the atmosphere and the oceans. Today’s air-breathing organisms could…
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