Every year, drug-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people across Europe and the United States, and hundreds of thousands more around the world….
Simulations by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University indicate that Earth-like planets are more likely to be found orbiting…
The rapid and uniform construction of nanographene sheets has now become possible in a precisely controlled manner from a new catalytic system developed by a…
In a paper published today, 18 February, in the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society’s New Journal of Physics, the team of researchers have…
A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds…
It is an extreme example of what neuroscientists term “mental time travel” – the recollection of memories so rich in detail regarding the time and place of an…
In a paper published today, 18 February, in the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society's New Journal of Physics, the team of researchers have…
A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have…
Silicon is the most important material for the production of solar electricity; it is the basic material that more than 90 percent of all solar cells worldwide…
Once the lightest fractions of the oil had been consumed, the organisms that had been digesting those compounds declined, replaced by others able to chew up…
The impulses are generated when special channel proteins open in the outer envelope of the cells, allowing charged molecules (ions) to enter or exit the cell….
In doing so, the teams enhanced our understanding of processes that are important for future TMR data storage devices and other spintronic components. Their…
An approach developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators may provide a solution to the limitations that have kept pancreatic islet…
From 10 to 12 March 2015, at the JEC Europe in Paris, engineers of Fraunhofer IZFP in Saarbrücken will introduce a novel procedure which enables noncontact and…
For over 400 million years, plants have played an essential role in almost all terrestrial environments and covered most of the world’s surface. During this…
Eine quantitative Untersuchung von Gerüchen kann mit der Methode der empfunden Intensität (»perceived intensity«) gemäß ISO 16000 Teil 28 oder mit der…