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Physics & Astronomy

Black Hole Jets Spark Cold Gas for Star Formation

Powerful radio jets from the black hole – which normally suppress star formation – are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of…

Earth Sciences

Canadian Glaciers Now Key Factor in Sea Level Rise

Ice loss from Canada's Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover How Heat Creates Perfect (Nano)Diamonds

Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, contains a host of new physical phenomena to explore quantum states at…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Find Evidence of Water on Mars’ Ancient Valley

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a patch of land in an ancient valley on Mars that appears to have been flooded by water in the…

Information Technology

Researchers Use High-Resolution Models to Catch Extreme Waves

Surfers aren't the only people trying to catch big waves. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are…

Physics & Astronomy

New Spin on Electronics: Enhancing Information Transport

Interface between insulators enables information transport by spin Modern computer technology is based on the transport of electric charge in semiconductors….

Machine Engineering

Fraunhofer IWS Partners with SIMTech for Advanced Research

SIMTech is a research institute under Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The collaboration between Fraunhofer IWS and SIMTech…

Life & Chemistry

How do cells move? Researchers in Münster investigate their mechanical features

Using an optical method, researchers at the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence have investigated the mechanical features of cells in living zebrafish…

Environmental Conservation

Rising Bioinvasion: Global Increase in Alien Species

The number of alien species is continuously increasing, and does not show any sign of saturation at a global level. This fact was described by an international…

Power and Electrical Engineering

IR Heat: Key Innovation in Chocolate Production

After all, chocolates are one of the more popular gifts next to jewelry and flowers that men like to buy for their girlfriends or wives on this special day….

Life & Chemistry

New High-Energy Compounds Predicted by Scientists

Using theoretical methods, an international group of scientists led by Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Skoltech, Stony Brook University and Moscow Institute of…

Life & Chemistry

Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot

For the past several years, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been developing a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle…

Materials Sciences

New Mechanical Metamaterials Block Motion Symmetry

The researchers developed the first nonreciprocal mechanical materials using metamaterials, which are synthetic materials with properties that cannot be found…

Life & Chemistry

Measuring Entropy in Single Molecules With STM Insights

A scanning-tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to…

Life & Chemistry

Switchable Carbon Nanodots Advance Drug Delivery Tracking

Tiny carbon dots have, for the first time, been applied to intracellular imaging and tracking of drug delivery involving various optical and vibrational…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Link Found to Combat Cyst Nematodes in Soybean Production

Invisible to the naked eye, cyst nematodes are a major threat to agriculture, causing billions of dollars in global crop losses every year. A group of plant…

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