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Life & Chemistry

Yale Research Reveals Color Change in Butterfly Wings

In so doing, they produced the first structural color change in an animal by influencing evolution. The discovery may have implications for physicists and…

Health & Medicine

Pistachios May Reduce Stress Response in Type 2 Diabetes

“In adults with diabetes, two servings of pistachios per day lowered vascular constriction during stress and improved neural control of the heart,” said Sheila…

Life & Chemistry

Mapping Chemical Environments Through Molecular Vibrations

“It's a special new advance that will be broadly useful in studies of molecular and materials phenomena,” said Andrei Tokmakoff, the Henry G. Gale…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists eye neural fly data, find formula for Zipf's law

“We’ve discovered a method that produces Zipf’s law without fine-tuning and with very few assumptions,” says Ilya Nemenman, a biophysicist at Emory University…

Studies and Analyses

“Treatments Waiting to be Discovered” Inside New Database

The answers to these questions could help doctors and researchers manipulate protein levels in the body that cause disease, especially cancer. A University of…

Awards Funding

New Devices Enhance Organic High-Capacity Memory Research

With this award, which is endowed with 1.65 million euros, the Humboldt Foundation singles out outstanding research talents with innovative research methods….

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer Chile and DBFZ Boost Organic Waste to Energy Research

Since 2012 the DBFZ operates a research biogas plant on the site of the research centre. The knowledge generated there may help Chilean biogas plant operators…

Environmental Conservation

Siemens Trials eHighway System for Electric Trucks in California

Siemens is to conduct trials on a two-mile stretch of highway after installing a catenary system for electric and hybrid trucks in the vicinity of the largest…

Physics & Astronomy

Rosetta’s Stunning OSIRIS Images Reveal Bizarre Beauty

The most recent images taken by the onboard scientific imaging system OSIRIS on August 3rd reveal a world of bizarre beauty – with steep slopes, prominent…

Life & Chemistry

Cuttlefish Adapt Skin Color for Stunning Camouflage

Some cephalopods are masters of display: Not only can they adapt their skin colour to their immediate environment, thereby merging with the background, they…

Health & Medicine

Vanderbilt Technique Boosts Spinal Cord Injury Recovery Efforts

Their technique, described today in the journal eLife, may aid efforts to help patients recover from spinal cord injuries and other disorders affecting spinal…

Information Technology

Big data, smart data – a business with trust

The goal of the EU's BYTE project is to produce a roadmap that includes specific steps that can be taken to enable Europe to increase its market share in the…

Life & Chemistry

How Plant Innovation Could Control Earth’s Vital Twitch

Thanks to technology that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Richard Vierstra has been developing for years, these things may soon be possible. And now, new…

Life & Chemistry

An Embryonic Cell’s Fate Is Sealed by the Speed of a Signal

“It turns out that if ramped up slowly enough an otherwise potent signal elicits no response from the receiving cells. Meanwhile, a pulsing, on-off signal…

Materials Sciences

New High-Tech Labels Expose Hidden Images in Drug Safety

Terry Shyu, a doctoral student in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan, was demonstrating a new high-tech label for fighting drug counterfeiting….

Awards Funding

New Award Honors Ocean Drilling Research Innovators

The prize is given in honor of Dr. Asahiko Taira of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and is made possible through a generous donation…

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