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Physics & Astronomy

Liquids on Fibers – Slipping or Flowing?

Thin fibers play a tremendous role in daily life, from the use of glass fibers in ultra-fast data transmission to textile fibers. In order to enable special…

Materials Sciences

Boosting Hydrogen Cars: A New Physical Study Unveiled

The dream of a cleaner, greener transportation future burns brightly in the promise of hydrogen-fueled, internal combustion engine automobiles. Modern-day…

Materials Sciences

Graphene’s Flexibility: A New Approach to Electrical Control

Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice University and in…

Environmental Conservation

Europeans’ Role in Invasive Plant Spread in North America

The study was jointly conducted by scientists from The Czech Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental…

Life & Chemistry

Subcutaneous Administration of Multispecific Antibody Makes Tumor Treatment Faster & More Tolerable

As a rule, anti-tumor antibodies are administered to the patients intravenously. This usually takes several hours because otherwise a too rapid activation of…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA Missions Track Activity of V404 Cygni Black Hole

The outburst came from V404 Cygni, a binary system located about 8,000 light-years away that contains a black hole. Every couple of decades the black hole…

Health & Medicine

Live Imaging Uncovers Wound Healing’s Impact on Cancer

“Our results provide direct visual evidence of a physical link between wound-associated inflammation and the development of skin cancer,” says EMBO Member Paul…

Physics & Astronomy

Discovering NGC 2367: Insights into Open Clusters

Open clusters like NGC 2367 are a common sight in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, and tend to form in their host's outer regions. On their travels about…

Materials Sciences

Cheaper Solar Energy Storage: EPFL’s New Method Explained

However, the cost of producing efficient solar panels makes water-splitting technologies too expensive to commercialize. EPFL scientists have now developed a…

Life & Chemistry

Why human egg cells don't age well

Now, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have used a novel imaging technique to pinpoint a significant event that leads to these…

Life & Chemistry

Bizarre Mating Habits of Flatworms Uncovered by Zoologists

Zoologists from the Universities of Basel and Bielefeld have discovered the extraordinary lengths to which this animal is willing to go in order to reproduce –…

Life & Chemistry

Fine Tuning Brain Development: Insights from Newborn Vision

When newborn babies open their eyes for the first time, they already possess nerve cells specialized in particular stimuli in the visual cortex of their brains…

Life & Chemistry

Youth Advantage: Fin Regeneration Declines With Age

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Age Research (FLI) in Jena, Germany now found that also in the short-lived killifish Nothobranchius furzeri, the…

Physics & Astronomy

X-Rays and Electrons Unite to Map Catalytic Reactions

A new technique pioneered at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory reveals atomic-scale changes during catalytic reactions in real…

Physics & Astronomy

3D Plasmonic Antenna Focuses Light to Few Nanometers

Professors Myung-Ki Kim and Yong-Hee Lee of the Physics Department at KAIST and their research teams developed a 3D gap-plasmon antenna which can focus light…

Materials Sciences

Dual-Color Pixel Innovation by A*STAR Researchers

Through precise structural control, A*STAR researchers have encoded a single pixel with two distinct colors and have used this capability to generate a…

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