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Materials Sciences

Meter-Sized Single-Crystal Graphene Grown on Copper Foils

Especially, high-quality large-scale continuous monolayer graphene has been successfully grown on Cu foils. This simple and low-cost method has been widely…

Life & Chemistry

Biochemical 'fingerprints' reveal diabetes progression

The method uses vibrational microspectroscopic technology, including Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Raman microspectroscopy. Different compounds have…

Life & Chemistry

Fish Behavior and Brain Function in the Holodeck Experience

From behavior to brain function

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Volume Control: New Insights from German Researchers

The receptor studied by scientists from the universities of Würzburg and Leipzig over the past years works similarly to the volume control of a stereo which…

Physics & Astronomy

Heating Quantum Matter: Exploring Topology in Physics

In physical sciences, certain quantities appear as integer multiples of fundamental and indivisible elements. This quantization of physical quantities, which…

Awards Funding

IVAM Marketing Prize Celebrates 10 Years of Tech Innovation

The competition for the IVAM Marketing Prize was launched in 2009, because there were various awards for technical innovations, but none that appreciated…

Health & Medicine

Once invincible superbug squashed by 'superteam' of antibiotics

The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close.

Earth Sciences

Hidden River Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice Surface

Antarctic researchers from Rice University have discovered one of nature's supreme ironies: On Earth's driest, coldest continent, where surface water rarely…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Stretchable Biofuel Cells Harness Sweat for Wearables

The epidermal biofuel cells are a major breakthrough in the field, which has been struggling with making the devices that are stretchable enough and powerful…

Medical Engineering

New Technique for Mitral Valve Disease Treatment Revealed

More and more people are fulfilling the wish for an active lifestyle into old age. But the societal trend is proceeding to the detriment of the heart, because…

Materials Sciences

Nagoya Physicists Solve Mystery of Structure-Less Transition

We normally associate conduction of electricity with metals. However, some of the high measured conductivities are found in certain organic molecular crystals….

Health & Medicine

Chronic Stress Links New Neural Circuit to Fatal Gut Failure

Hokkaido University researchers revealed that fatal gut failure in a multiple sclerosis (MS) mouse model, EAE, under chronic stress is caused by a newly…

Materials Sciences

New Liquid-Crystalline Photochrom Developed by MSU Scientists

Members of the Faculties of Chemistry and Fundamental Physical and Chemical Engineering at the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with foreign…

Medical Engineering

Fast, Affordable Bioimaging Technique Enhances Molecular Monitoring

A new approach to optical imaging makes it possible to quickly and economically monitor multiple molecular interactions in a large area of living tissue –…

Materials Sciences

Silk Enhances Sensitivity and Flexibility in Wearable Sensors

The researchers are presenting their work today at the 254th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). ACS, the world's largest…

Environmental Conservation

New Diatom/Dinoflagellate Index Tracks Marine Ecosystem Change

The European Union declared it their target to re-establish a „good ecological status“ in European seas by 2020. Quite a challenging task! But what actually is…

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