Previous research with young children has documented socioeconomic disparities in performance on tasks of working memory. Now a new longitudinal study has…
A project to demonstrate optimised energy systems for high performance energy cities has just commenced. CITyFiED is a 5-year endeavour co-funded by the EU and…
The top image, acquired on April 28 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, shows what appears to be a tornado…
Identifying the likely maximum magnitude for the NAFZ is critical for seismic hazard assessments, particularly given its proximity to Istanbul.
The novel technique developed by the UNSW team involves printing a pattern of miniscule droplets of a special solvent onto a gold-coated or glass surface.
Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic…
Even though today most of the electricity transmission lines are alternating current ones, in some cases direct current lines are also used. And researchers…
However, where – in which components and material compounds – and in which quantities can they be found? How can they be identified and recovered at the end of…
Fiber optics increased the speed and quantity of information that can be transmitted through the Internet by transforming electrical signals into pulsating…
An international team of scientists, led by physicists at the University of Arkansas, has tracked the dynamic movement of ripples in freestanding graphene at…
“Up periscope!” may become a submarine commander's outdated order, thanks to a team of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers who have developed a…
Laser specialist OMICRON based in Rodgau, Germany, expands its international distribution network by adding another representative in Europe. The distribution…
A team of Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have discovered a possible link between the two. They found that in East Africa, the loss of large wildlife…
Nanoparticles have been heralded as a potential “disruptive technology” in biomedicine, a versatile platform that could supplant conventional technologies,…
Manganites – compounds of manganese oxides – show great promise as “go-to” materials for future electronic devices because of their ability to instantly switch…
Putting a stop to aging has now been made possible for highly porous polymer membranes whose efficiency in the separation of gases falls off fast when parts of…