Researchers from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering of the University of Seville have published a study in which they indicate that it…
Researchers from the Physics Department of Moscow State University and their colleagues have discovered a mechanism that allows gas sensors, based on…
It is a matter of scientific debate how microswimmers navigate. This fundamental question concerns scientists seeking to understand biological microswimmers,…
Transferring the gallium nitride sensors to metallic foils and flexible polymers doubles their sensitivity to nitrogen dioxide gas, and boosts response time by…
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…
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….
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…
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…
Researchers have developed a highly robust gel that includes large amounts of ionic liquid. The research team was led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and…
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…
Spectral images, which contain more color information than is obtainable with a typical camera, reveal characteristics of tissue and other biological samples…
The aim of the German research project “Phage4Cure” is to establish bacteriophages as an approved drug in the fight against infection. Bacteriophages are…
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…
Researchers investigating ways to deliver high doses of cancer-killing drugs inside tumors have shown they can use a laser and light-activated gold…
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…
The scientists published their findings in open access in the October issue of the acclaimed scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of…