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Physics & Astronomy

Spintronics Breakthrough: Wafers for Quantum Devices Nears Reality

Now researchers at the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) have made a crucial step toward nuclear spintronic technologies. They…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Discover Vibrant Glowing Corals in Red Sea Depths

Glowing corals that display a surprising array of colours have been discovered in the deep water reefs of the Red Sea by scientists from the University of…

Earth Sciences

A 'hydrothermal siphon' drives water circulation through the seafloor

Vast quantities of ocean water circulate through the seafloor, flowing through the volcanic rock of the upper oceanic crust. A new study by scientists at UC…

Materials Sciences

Helium 'balloons' offer new path to control complex materials

The team's technique, published in Physical Review Letters, advances the understanding and use of complex oxide materials that boast unusual properties such as…

Machine Engineering

Streamline Secure Remote Access with Sinema Remote Connect

Sinema Remote Connect is a management platform supplied by Siemens for efficient and secure remote access to globally distributed machines and plants. The…

Studies and Analyses

Marriage and Health: New Research Insights Unveiled

Numerous studies have shown that marriage is good for your health. As a team of researchers from Basel, Nuremberg, and Berlin have now found, however, that…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Recycled Water and Salt-Tolerant Grass: A Sustainable Solution

Plants need water. People need water. Unfortunately, there’s only so much clean water to go around — and so the effort begins to find a solution.

Life & Chemistry

New Drug Squashes Cancer’s Last-Ditch Efforts to Survive

Salk Institute and Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) scientists have developed a drug that prevents this process from starting in cancer…

Physics & Astronomy

Red Dwarf Burns Off Planet’s Hydrogen Giving It Massive Comet-Like Tail

Depicted in an image by Mark Garlick and issued by the University of Warwick, it has been suggested that low-mass exoplanets orbiting close to their parent…

Physics & Astronomy

OSIRIS-REx's First Instrument Arrives for Integration Into the Spacecraft

The first of five instruments for a spacecraft that will collect a sample from an asteroid and bring it back to Earth has arrived at the Lockheed Martin Space…

Life & Chemistry

New Method for Rapid Protein Synthesis Using Innovative Amino Acid

The development of new methods for the chemical synthesis of proteins is highly significant to access a range of proteins inaccessible by conventional…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Selective Breeding And Immunization Boost Fish Farm Yields

Fish farming, or aquaculture, began in Malaysia as early as the 1920s, with the 1990s ushering in intensive commercial production. It is a rapidly growing…

Life & Chemistry

How Fish Evade Predators: Insights Into Instinctive Behavior

Humans and animals instinctively evade rapidly approaching objects. By doing so, they avoid collisions or escape attacking predators. For this to happen, the…

Life & Chemistry

Cancer Drug Extends Lifespan in Fruit Flies: What It Means

Humans, yeasts and fruit flies began to evolve separately millions of years ago. Nevertheless, the cellular processes which regulate cell division and cell…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria-Inspired Microrobot Navigates Microparticle Swarms

If things go according to Metin Sitti, director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, with…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Discovered to Influence Stroke Risk in Brain

The brain’s smallest blood vessels differ from those in other organs in that the capillary walls are much more compact. The nerve cells in the brain get the…

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