A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens that produces sharper and brighter images of the nano world….
Advancing nutrient management to the routine practices of agricultural production, including in manure fertilization, is a leading topic in the meeting of the…
After years of development and construction work, physicists of the MPI for Nuclear Physics now for the first time succeeded to hold negatively charged…
On the basis of seven case studies in as many countries, this study finds that financing costs for a hybridisation project can be a major driver of electricity…
An image of the storm taken from NOAA's GOES-West satellite shows the depression in infrared light as it was born in the early morning hours before sunrise.
New work from a team including Carnegie's Devaki Bhaya and Michelle Davison used massive DNA sequencing of bacterial populations that grow in the hot springs…
One recent spring day, John Durban, a NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologist, stood on the California coast and launched an unmanned aerial vehicle into the…
Quantum teleportation is a method of communicating information from one location to another without moving the physical matter to which the information is…
Phonons–the elemental particles that transmit both heat and sound–have magnetic properties, according to a landmark study supported by Ohio Supercomputer…
Plants are continuously besieged by viruses, fungi and bacteria. This is the reason why immune responses have developed in the course of evolution with which…
A portable, finger-probe device successfully measured liver function in brain dead adult organ donors, a finding that could change the way organs are assessed…
Carnivorous plants such as the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) grow in environments with extremely low nutrition. In order to survive there, they have…
A team led by David Cobden, UW professor of physics, used a carbon nanotube — a seamless, hollow graphite structure a million times thinner than a drinking…
Black-tailed godwits are able to cope with unpredictable weather. This was revealed by a thorough analysis of the extraordinary spring of 2013 by ecologist…
Lightweight construction materials are popular: aluminum is used in the bodywork of cars, for example, and aircraft fuselages already consist in large part of…
In a video sequence based on a computer simulation two icy spheres with a diameter of about one kilometer are moving towards each other. They collide at…