All News

Environmental Conservation

Green rooves to reduce the effects of climate change

Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville have published a study in which they indicate that it…

Physics & Astronomy

Promising sensors for submarines, mines and spacecraft

Researchers from the Physics Department of Moscow State University and their colleagues have discovered a mechanism that allows gas sensors, based on…

Life & Chemistry

Sperm navigate by playing chords

It is a matter of scientific debate how microswimmers navigate. This fundamental question concerns scientists seeking to understand biological microswimmers,…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Transfer technique produces wearable gallium nitride gas sensors

Transferring the gallium nitride sensors to metallic foils and flexible polymers doubles their sensitivity to nitrogen dioxide gas, and boosts response time by…

Information Technology

NASA CubeSat to test miniaturized weather satellite technology

Weather satellites have traditionally been large, both in the effort needed to build them and in actual size. They can take several years to build and can be…

Earth Sciences

Research shows ice sheets as large as Greenland's melted fast in a warming climate

The Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered large parts of North America during the Pleistocene – or Last Ice Age – and was similar in mass to the Greenland Ice Sheet….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Stunning Photos from the Ocean Depths: Fraunhofer IOSB and ZEISS cooperate in XPRIZE Ocean Discovery

62% of the earth's surface is found more than 1000 meters below the ocean. No standard, manned submersible could withstand the absolute darkness and extreme…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Uncover Dark Photons in Decade-Old Collider Data

In its final years of operation, a particle collider in Northern California was refocused to search for signs of new particles that might help fill in some big…

Materials Sciences

Durable Gel Innovation: Strong & Long-Lasting Performance

Researchers have developed a highly robust gel that includes large amounts of ionic liquid. The research team was led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and…

Materials Sciences

Innovative Textiles to Stay Cool This Summer

Functionalized clothes have become the norm in recent years. We now have moisture-wicking and smell-proof athletic gear, and shirts and tops coated with a…

Medical Engineering

Wireless Handheld Spectrometer Connects to Your Smartphone

Spectral images, which contain more color information than is obtainable with a typical camera, reveal characteristics of tissue and other biological samples…

Life & Chemistry

Research alliance launched, aimed at establishing bacteriophages as an approved drug

The aim of the German research project “Phage4Cure” is to establish bacteriophages as an approved drug in the fight against infection. Bacteriophages are…

Social Sciences

Visual intelligence is not the same as IQ

That is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people's visual ability and that these…

Health & Medicine

Nanoshells could deliver more chemo with fewer side effects

Researchers investigating ways to deliver high doses of cancer-killing drugs inside tumors have shown they can use a laser and light-activated gold…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists find missing clue to how HIV hacks cells to propagate itself

A key part of HIV's success is a nasty little trick to propagate itself inside the body. Once HIV has infected a cell, it forces the cell to make a little…

Life & Chemistry

Bringing Natural Killer cells to the tumor battlefield

The scientists published their findings in open access in the October issue of the acclaimed scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of…

Feedback